implosion of a private submersible vehicle carrying five people to tour the wreckage of the Titanic, according to a senior military official.
Coast Guard officials said during a news conference Thursday that they've notified the families of the crew of the Titan, which had been missing for days, bringing a tragic end to a saga that included an urgent around-the-clock search and a worldwide vigil for the missing vessel.Despite an international search and rescue effort, the Associated Press is now reporting that the Navy likely knew the search was futile soon after the sub was lost.
After detecting the sound of the implosion just 500 meters from the Titanic shipwreck, the Navy went back and analyzed its acoustic data.The pilot and four passengers of a missing submersible that disappeared en route to the wreckage of the Titanic are believed to be dead, the U.S.
Coast Guard said on Thursday.They found that anomaly was "consistent with an implosion or explosion in the general vicinity of where the Titan submersible was operating when communications were lost," according to the senior Navy official.The official spoke on condition of anonymity in order to discuss the U.S.