What we know about the submersible on expedition to Titanic wreck
A sub that set out to explore the Titanic wreckage vanished in the North Atlantic, prompting a massive search and rescue operation.
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A sub that set out to explore the Titanic wreckage vanished in the North Atlantic, prompting a massive search and rescue operation.
One expert said implosion would have happened in a "thousandth of a second" — so fast that passengers didn't have "time to realize what happened."
John Paschall, son of late CBS2 anchor Michele Marsh, spoke glowingly of the explorer, known as "Mr. Titanic."
The director and deep-sea explorer says for him, "there was no doubt" the sub had suffered a "catastrophic event" days before the tell-tale debris was discovered.
Passengers on OceanGate submersible included noted adventurer Hamish Harding and Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his son.
The U.S. Coast Guard offered their deepest condolences to the families of the passengers aboard a Titanic-exploring submersible after debris from the sub was found on the sea floor. The debris was "consistent with a catastrophic event" suffered by the pressure chamber of the sub. Jericka Duncan anchored CBS News' special report.
The U.S. Coast Guard said two new vessels had reached the area and deployed their ROVs to scan the ocean floor.
The noises were picked up by a Canadian aircraft, the U.S. Coast Guard says. The submersible went missing with five people on board.
The sub went missing while carrying five people to the wreckage of the Titanic.
OceanGate Expeditions' small Titan submersible set off with 5 people, including 3 paying passengers and, at most, about 96 hours' worth of oxygen on board.
The deep sea craft went missing with five people on board in the Atlantic. CBS2's Zinnia Maldonado has the latest.
U.S. Coast Guard officials said 5 people were aboard the submersible that lost contact about 400 miles off the coast of Newfoundland, where the Titanic sank in 1912.
The Navy secretary made the announcement during a Fleet Week event at Pier 88.
The well-known sub and was visited by Amelia Earhart in 1929.
The news came about a week after officials seized a cocaine-laden vessel with two dead bodies on board in the same region.
