Debris recovered from Titan sub implosion
Debris from the Titan submersible which imploded last week near the wreckage of the Titanic, killing all five people aboard, has been recovered, the U.S. Coast Guard reported Wednesday.
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Debris from the Titan submersible which imploded last week near the wreckage of the Titanic, killing all five people aboard, has been recovered, the U.S. Coast Guard reported Wednesday.
The U.S. Coast Guard said "presumed human remains" recovered from the sub's wreckage would undergo analysis by medical professionals.
Customers of the exploration company typically waived the right to take action for personal injury or any other loss.
The U.S. Coast Guard has launched an investigation into the Titan submersible, which imploded with five people on board while attempting a dive to the wreckage of the Titanic. Roxana Saberi has the latest.
Wife says seeing the Titanic was a lifelong dream for Shahzada Dawood, and their son Suleman had hoped to set a Guinness World Record on the ill-fated sub.
This week a submersible carrying passengers to the site of the wreck of the Titanic disappeared in the North Atlantic; all five aboard perished in a catastrophic implosion. Correspondent David Pogue, who rode in the same underwater vehicle last year, reports on this latest disaster, and looks back on his interviews with OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush and deep-sea explorer P.H. Nargeolet, who were among those killed.
Victor Vescovo has been on board submersibles going to the deepest parts of the ocean. He appeared on CBS Saturday Morning to talk about the Titan submersible, which imploded with five people onboard, leaving no survivors.
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."
The investigation has begun into the deadly "catastrophic implosion" the Coast Guard says a submersible suffered this week. Five people were aboard the sub exploring the wreck of the Titanic, none survived. Roxana Saberi has more from Boston.
Teams are working on the recovery of the submersible that suffered what the Coast Guard called a "catastrophic implosion" while on an expedition to the wreck of the Titanic. All five on board were killed. CBS News correspondent Roxana Saberi has been following the search from Boston.
Five people on the submersible voyage to the Titanic are presumed dead after the U.S Coast Guard confirmed a "catastrophic implosion of the vessel." CBS "Sunday Morning" correspondent David Pogue joins "CBS Mornings" to discuss his own experience on the sub in 2022, and the impact of this tragedy.
The U.S. Coast Guard says the submersible that disappeared on its way to the wreck of the Titanic suffered a catastrophic implosion. The five people on board the vessel did not survive. Roxana Saberi has more.
"I think it was General [Douglas] MacArthur who said, 'You're remembered for the rules you break,'" Rush said abord the Titan in 2021. "And I've broken some rules to make this."
Search crews detected underwater noises as they looked for the missing sub. Here's what we now know about the likely source.
The Titanic wreckage s about 12,500 feet deep in the North Atlantic — that's as deep as about nine Empire State Buildings stacked on top of each other.
A U.S. Navy official said the Navy detected "an acoustic anomaly consistent with an implosion" shortly after the sub, named Titan, lost contact with the surface.
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.