US Coast Guards explain prospects of recovering the bodies of Titan crew
All five men on board the missing Titan submersible were declared dead after it was found that the craft imploded near the site of the shipwreck, authorities announced Thursday.
OceanGate Expeditions founder and CEO Stockton Rush, British billionaire Hamish Harding, renowned French diver Paul-Henri Nargeolet, Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his 19-year-old son Suleman were all aboard the Titan.
Hollywood filmmaker James Cameron revealed that he received the information within 24 hours of the disappearance of the submersible that it had imploded when it lost communication with its mothership.
“We got confirmation within an hour that there had been a loud bang at the same time that the sub comms were lost,” Mr Cameron, who directed the 1997 Oscar-winning film Titanic, said.
His statement comes after Wall Street Journal reported that secret US Navy underwater microphones detected the Titan sub’s implosion several days ago.
The Navy used a top secret acoustic detection system to search for any sign of the OceanGate Expeditions submersible soon after it was reported missing on Sunday, a US Defence official said.
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Missing Titanic submarine: Timeline of how the deep-sea tragedy unfolded
Five crew members are presumed to be dead after the Titan submarine suffered a ‘catastrophic explosion’ – this is how it all unfolded.
Graeme Massie23 June 2023 06:03
James Cameron says ‘unheeded warnings’ behind Titanic and Titan tragedies
Hollywood filmmaker James Cameron says both the Titanic and the Titan incidents were preceded by unheeded warnings.
In the Titanic’s case, the captain sped across the Atlantic on a moonless night despite being told about icebergs.
“Here were are again,” Mr Cameron said. “And at the same place. Now there’s one wreck lying next to the other wreck for the same damn reason.”
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar23 June 2023 05:35
Pakistani businessman survived ‘plane plunge’ in 2019, says wife
Pakistan-born businessman Shahzada Dawood who was one of the five people on board the Titan submersible, reportedly survived a flight plunge so horrific that it had him fearing for his life, his wife revealed.
The 48-year-old British national and his 19-year-old son, Suleman, were on the submersible that imploded underwater, killing them.I
n a blog post, Dawood’s wife Christine, recalled surviving a flight alongside her husband that left her frozen with “absolute terror”.
“I should have known when they canceled our flight and put us on the next one. We should have taken the sign, gone back home and had a long and generous breakfast. But we didn’t,” she said in the post, dated 22 January 2019.
Describing her experience, Christine wrote that passengers let out “… one simultaneous cry, which turned to a whimper and then silence”.
That was the first of multiple violent plunges that left her feeling “like a grain in a big bag of sand, or a boxer being soundly defeated—punched from all directions”.
“I clutched my armrests, as if that would make a difference,” she said, adding: “I needed something to hold on to, something stable in a shaky metal tube thousands of feet above the ground.”
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar23 June 2023 05:15
A British billionaire, father and son and renowned diver: Who was on the Titanic submarine?
Coast Guard offers deepest condolences to families of those on board submersible that imploded, including three British citizens.
Graeme Massie23 June 2023 05:06
James Cameron reveals he knew Titanic sub imploded on Monday
Hollywood filmmaker James Cameron said he received the information within 24 hours of the disappearance of the submersible Titan that it had imploded when it lost communication with its mothership.
“We got confirmation within an hour that there had been a loud bang at the same time that the sub comms were lost,” Mr Cameron, who directed the 1997 movie Titanic, said.
“A loud bang on the hydrophone. Loss of transponder. Loss of comms. I knew what happened. The sub imploded,” he said, adding that he told colleagues in an email on Monday, “We’ve lost some friends,” and, “It’s on the bottom in pieces right now”.
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar reports.
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar23 June 2023 05:01
OceanGate, company behind Titanic tourist sub, got $450,000 in Covid pandemic aid, report says
CEO and founder Stockton Rush presumed dead along with four others who paid $250,000 per seat.
Graeme Massie23 June 2023 04:05
Who is Shahzada Dawood? The Pakistani businessman who died on Titanic submarine with teenage son
US Coast Guard said debris of Titan sub found near wreck of liner after it suffered ‘Catastrophic implosion’.
Graeme Massie23 June 2023 03:34
Why did the Titanic sub implode?
OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush and four paying passengers presumed dead after debris found near the wreck.
Graeme Massie23 June 2023 03:01
‘Titanic’ director James Cameron appears to blame OceanGate CEO for sub disaster
James Cameron, director of the blockbuster Titanic and a deep-sea submersible designer himself, likened the Titan tragedy in which five people died this week to the sinking of the ill-fated ocean liner because of the safety warnings both received prior to their disasters.
He told ABC News that the wider submersible engineering community had been specifically concerned about the OceanGate Expeditions vehicle, the Titan before it went missing on Sunday.
Oliver O’Connell reports:
Ariana Baio23 June 2023 02:00
Suleman Dawood the student in Glasgow
Suleman Dawood, 19, died alongside his father, Shahzada Dawood on the Titan submersible during an expedition to the Titanic wreckage.
Suleman was a student at Strathclyde University in Glasgow who was “big fan of science fiction literature and learning new things”, with an interest in Rubik’s Cube and playing volleyball, according to his family.
Graeme Massie23 June 2023 01:32