John Mauger, the First Coast Guard District commander, told reporters.Ī senior Navy official told CNN the Navy detected an acoustic signature consistent with an implosion on Sunday in the general area where the vessel was diving and lost communication with its mother ship. “The debris is consistent with a catastrophic implosion of the vessel,” US Coast Guard Rear Adm. The tail cone and other debris from the missing submersible were found by a remotely operated vehicle about 1,600 feet from the bow of the Titanic, which rests about 13,000 feet deep in the North Atlantic Ocean. After a dayslong, massive search for a Titanic-bound submersible that captured international attention, US authorities announced the vessel had suffered a “catastrophic implosion” – and new information from a US Navy source helps shed light on when that disaster may have unfolded.Īll five people aboard the submersible, known as the “Titan,” were killed, the US Coast Guard said in a Thursday news conference.
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