The Canadian ship Horizon Arctic deposited Wednesday in the port of St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada, the remains of the Titan submersible, which imploded last June 18 as it descended towards the wreck of the Titanic, with five occupants on board. Images captured by Canadian public broadcaster CBC show the Horizon Arctic’s cranes unloading large pieces of the Titan early Wednesday in the port of St. John’s, Newfoundland.
The Horizon Arctic, operated by the Canadian company that also owns the Polar Prince, the Titan’s mother ship, retrieved the wreckage from the bottom of the Atlantic with the remotely operated vehicle Odysseus. The Odysseus’ owner, Pelagic Research Services, said in a statement today that the team has successfully completed offshore operations and is now conducting its demobilization process from the Horizon Arctic after ten days of work.
Among the images released by CBC, the bow of the submersible, a gray hemispherical piece with a small porthole through which the vessel’s occupants could observe the exterior, can be seen intact. The porthole appears to have lost the piece of transparent material that covered it. Another piece of the Titan unloaded by Horizon Arctic is a large area of what appears to be the machinery located at the rear of the vehicle.
#BREAKING: Images of the debris from the #Titan #submersible have emerged 10 days after the vessel #imploded with five people onboard. https://t.co/CX4jFqtpxM (AP photo) pic.twitter.com/wHYqVRyXWW
— The National Desk (@TND) June 28, 2023
Investigation to Begin with the Remains of the Titan Submersible
As soon as the Horizon Arctic docked at one of the docks in the port of St. John’s, Newfoundland, a team of investigators from Canada’s Transportation Safety Bureau (TSB) boarded the vessel. Both the TSB and the RCMP have launched investigations to determine the circumstances of the Titan accident.
The Transportation Security Bureau (TBS) has indicated that, as the authority responsible for the submersible’s mother ship, it will “conduct a safety investigation concerning the circumstances of the operation conducted by the Canadian-flagged vessel Polar Prince.”
The U.S. Coast Guard announced Sunday an official investigation to discover the causes of the implosion suffered by the submersible Titan, which disappeared a week ago with five people on board while traveling to see the remains of the Titanic. Last Sunday, the U.S. Coast Guard reported another official investigation into the loss of the submersible, which will try to answer the reason for the tragedy.
The inquiry will be led by Captain Jason Neubauer, who explained at a press conference that the main objective is to prevent something similar from happening in the future, making “the necessary recommendations to improve marine safety around the world.” Polar Prince was in charge of towing the Titan submersible on the 16th with its five occupants from the port of San Juan de Terranova to the point in the Atlantic where it submerged, some 600 kilometers to the southeast, where the remains of the Titanic rest.
According to U.S. authorities, Polar Prince lost contact with Titan on Sunday, June 18, 105 minutes after it began its dive into Titanic. The Titan’s accident caused the death of its five occupants: the millionaire Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood with his son Suleman, a 19-year-old student; the British explorer Hamish Harding; the French explorer Paul-Henry Nargeolet and the CEO of the OceanGate firm, Stockton Rush.
Story written in Spanish by Lizbeth García in Cultura Colectiva News
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