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The Navy discovered the Titan’s implosion shortly after it lost contact, per The Wall Street Journal.
Defense officials told the outlet that the Navy began listening for the ship after it went missing.
A top-secret detection system used to find enemy submarines recorded the sound.
At least some in the upper echelons of the US military knew about the The fate of the Titan submarine days for the rest of the world, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.
The U.S. Navy first detected the sound of the Titan’s likely implosion shortly after the ship lost contact with its mother ship on Sunday during an exploratory dive to the Titanic shipwreck more than two miles below the surface, The Journal reported Thursday. .
A top-secret acoustic detection system used by the Navy to identify enemy submarines first recorded the sound of an implosion near the debris site since discovered, U.S. defense officials told the outlet on Sunday.
Almost immediately after contact was lost, naval officers began searching for sounds of the missing Titan, according to the paper.
“The US Navy conducted an analysis of acoustic data and discovered an anomaly consistent with an implosion or explosion near where the Titan submarine was operating when communications failed,” a senior US Navy official told the Journal. . “While this information is not final, it was immediately shared with the Incident Commander to aid in the ongoing search and rescue mission.”
The Navy did not immediately respond to Insider’s request for comment.
Coast Guard officials said Thursday that the Titan appears to have suffered a “catastrophic loss of its pressure chamber.” imploded and shattered its debris 500 feet from the famous shipwreck.
The death of the five passengers would have been instantaneous, Stefan Williams, a professor of marine robotics at the University of Sydney whose lab works with unmanned submersibles, previously told Insider.
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Coast Guard Admiral John Mauger said at the press conference that the implosion “would have generated significant broadband noise down there that the sonar buoys would have picked up.”
Officials told the Journal that the Navy could not conclusively conclude that the sound detected on its system came from the Titan, but the signal helped narrow the scope of the search.
The search for the ship sparked a massive international effort, including Canadian authorities, commercial ships and a French ship being deployed a remote-controlled vehicle (ROV).
The device, capable of diving 20,000 feet underwater, discovered debris believed to be part of the missing Titan on Thursday morning.
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