Tag: Titanic

Recovering the Titan 12,500 Feet Underwater Was Dangerous, Complex, Emotional

EAST AURORA, N.Y.—When Edward Cassano and his colleagues arrived in the remote stretch of ocean where the Titan submersible had gone missing, they quickly learned that they would have to do what other deep-sea experts had already tried unsuccessfully: to find the lost sub in some of the most forbidding depths of the North Atlantic….


LIVE NOW: Searching Company Ends Recovering Mission for Destroyed Titanic Submersible

Pelagic Research, the company that operates a robotic vehicle used in recovering the debris from the tourist submersible destroyed while diving into the century-old wreck of the Titanic, holds a press conference at 1:00 p.m. ET on June 30 to mark the end of the mission. …


Searching Company Ends Recovering Mission for Destroyed Titanic Submersible

Pelagic Research, the company that operates a robotic vehicle used in recovering the debris from the tourist submersible destroyed while diving into the century-old wreck of the Titanic, holds a press conference at 1:00 p.m. ET on June 30 to mark the end of the mission. …


‘Presumed Human Remains’ Recovered from Titanic Sub Implosion: Coast Guard

The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) announced on Wednesday that debris and “presumed human remains” have been successfully retrieved from the seafloor at the location where officials say the OceanGate submersible imploded while en route to the Titanic wreckage last week. In a statement released on Wednesday, the USCG confirmed, “United States medical professionals will conduct…


Previous Passenger on Doomed Submersible Says Titanic Adventure Tourism at an End

A German man who was among the first customers to successfully descend to the Titanic wreck aboard a submersible destroyed in an implosion one week ago believes the tragedy will put an end to adventure tourism at the site for the foreseeable future. Arthur Loibl made the journey on Titan in 2021 with the submersible…


RCMP, Transportation Safety Board Launch Investigations Into Titan Sub Tragedy

The RCMP will be doing a preliminary investigation into the deaths of five passengers aboard the Titan, an underwater Titanic tour submersible, while the Transportation Safety Board (TSB) is also investigating the events leading to what officials believe was the sub imploding on June 18. “There’s no suspicion of criminal activity per se, but the…


Canada Is Investigating Why the Titanic-Bound Submersible Imploded

The Transportation Safety Board of Canada said Saturday that it’s conducting an investigation into the loss of the Titan submersible and has been speaking with those who traveled on Titan’s mothership, the Polar Prince. The development comes as authorities from the U.S. and Canada began the process of probing the cause of the underwater implosion…


Previous Passengers Recall Ill-Fated Titan: ‘I 100 Percent Knew This Was Going to Happen’

Talk to someone who rode on the Titan submersible, and they’re likely to mention a technological glitch: the propulsion system failed or communications with people on the surface cut out. Maybe there were problems balancing weights on board. They are also likely to mention Stockton Rush, the OceanGate Expeditions CEO who died on the fatal…


Mother Ship of Doomed Titan Submersible Returns to Port in Newfoundland

ST. JOHN’S, N.L.—The Canadian ship that launched the doomed Titan submersible into the depths of the North Atlantic on Sunday has returned to port in Newfoundland. The Polar Prince pulled up alongside the Canadian Coast Guard building this morning in St. John’s after a journey of about 700 kilometres from the site of a massive…


‘Diversity’ Instead of Competence

A friend who worked on the film “Titanic” just sent me a report headlined: “Titan Sub: OceanGate CEO Didn’t Want to Hire ’50-Year-Old White Guys’ Because They’re Not ‘Inspirational’” The report is worth reading in full, but especially noteworthy are statements that OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush made in 2020. “When I started the business, one…