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BOSTON– A remote-controlled vehicle found a “debris field” in the days-long search for five missing ocean explorers aboard the OceanGate Titan submarine, a deep-sea vehicle that disappeared Sunday in an attempt to dive to the wreckage of the Titanic, off the US coast. said Thursday morning.
“Experts within the unified command are evaluating the information,” the Coast Guard said on Twitter.
Additional details were not immediately available, but authorities would provide an update shortly.
The Titan lost contact with its surface craft, the Polar Prince, on Sunday morning about 1 hour and 45 minutes after its dive, about 900 miles east of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and about 400 miles southeast of St John’s, Newfoundland, Canada .
MISSING TITANIC SUB ‘DID NOT PERFORM WELL’, SAYS VETERIN EXPLORER WHO IGNORED DOCUMENTARY ABOUT SAFETY CARE
Inset, from left: Suleman Dawood, Shahzada Dawood, Stockton Rush, Paul-Henry Nargeolet, and Hamish Harding. Background: An image of the OceanGate Titan submarine. (Engro Corp. | Reuters/Shannon Stapleton | @OceanGateExped/Twitter | Felix Kunze/Blue Origin via AP | Ocean Gate/Handout/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Inside the sealed vehicle is OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush; British businessman turned adventurer Hamish Harding; father and son Shahzada and Suleman Dawood, who are members of one of Pakistan’s wealthiest families; and Paul-Henry Nargeolet, a former French naval officer and leading Titanic expert.
The United States Coast Guard ran a unified command involving commercial assets, research vehicles and military counterparts from Canada, France and the United Kingdom.
‘SCARED’ SOUNDS CONFIRMED IN DESPERATE SEA SEARCH FOR MISSING TITAN SUB BUT SOURCE UNKNOWN
This file image from OceanGate shows the Titan submarine descending into the ocean. (OceanGate Expeditions)
Search and rescue crews spent the week deploying high-tech buoys, robotic vehicles known as ROVs, surface craft and aerial surveys in an attempt to pinpoint the location of the missing submarine.
On Tuesday and Wednesday, Canadian pilots picked up repeated sounds during their search.
The search will use the Victor 6000, an unmanned French robot that can dive to a depth of 6,000 meters. It has arms that can be operated remotely to cut cables or otherwise help free a stuck vessel. But he does not have the ability to lift the submarine himself. (Ifremer handout via Eyepress)
Carl Hartsfield, a retired Navy captain and a scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, said at a USCG briefing that the sounds had been “described as popping.”
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Authorities did not elaborate and had not discovered their source by Wednesday.
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