Breaking: The company operating the missing Titanic submersible says it believes all five people aboard are dead
The U.S. Coast Guard is providing an update on the missing submersible on Thursday after a debris field was found in the search area near the Titanic wreckage site in the North Atlantic. Two ships deployed deep-sea robots to scan the ocean floor for the sub that went missing carrying five people on Sunday.
“We now believe that our CEO Stockton Rush, Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman Dawood, Hamish Harding, and Paul-Henri Nargeolet, have sadly been lost,” the statement said. That meant its occupants, if the submersible was still intact, would be projected to run out of air Thursday morning. On the surface, search-and-rescue crews from four countries — Canada, the United States, Britain and France — along with a number of commercial vessels, continue to comb an area more than four times the size of Prince Edward Island in the desperate race to find the submersible and its occupants.
“This is a search-and-rescue mission, 100 per cent,” said U.S. Coast Guard Capt. Jamie Frederick during a Wednesday briefing. “We are smack-dab in the middle of search and rescue, and we’ll continue to put every available asset that we have in an effort to find the Titan and its crew members.” More ships arrived to join the search flotilla Thursday, including a French research ship carrying an ROV capable of descending to the depths of the Titanic wreck, equipped with manipulator arms. The U.S. Coast Guard said Thursday morning the French vessel L’Atalante had deployed its ROV to join the search. It also said the Canadian vessel Horizon Arctic deployed an ROV, which had reached the Atlantic Ocean floor and begun its search for the missing sub.
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