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| Coast Guard Official OceanGate Titan Sub Transcript |
| 2024-09-18 |
| Link in the title goes to a news report on the Coast Guard hearing: [Amomama] More from regnum.ru Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. Photo at the link. US publishes photo of wreckage from stern of sunken Titan submersible The first photographs of the wreckage of the Titan bathyscaphe, which sank in June 2023 while diving in the North Atlantic Ocean, have been published in the United States, People magazine reported on September 16. The photographs were taken by a remotely operated vehicle on June 22, 2023, four days after the Titan sank. The Coast Guard released them at a hearing on September 16. The image shows the ship's tail cone embedded in the seabed at a depth of more than 3.7 km, which is said to be "compelling evidence of the catastrophic loss" of the Titan and the deaths of its five passengers. The Coast Guard also released an animation showing the Titan's path from its submersion on June 18, 2023, until contact was lost. At the hearing, Coast Guard Investigation and Analysis Command spokesman Jason Neubauer said he hoped the materials provided "will help shed light on the cause of the tragedy and prevent something like this from happening again." Attorney Jane Shvets, representing the American company OceanGate Expeditions (the owner of the submersible), read a short opening statement in which she repeated the same thought. She emphasized that the company expresses its deepest condolences to the families and loved ones of the victims. "There are no words to ease the loss suffered by the families affected by this tragic incident," Shvets said. As reported by Regnum News Agency, the 2021 Titan was used for deep-sea dives, including to the wreckage of the Titanic liner, which sank in 1912. The bathyscaphe sank on June 18, 2023, after another dive to the Titanic. Communication with the crew was lost 1 hour and 45 minutes after the dive. There were five people on board the apparatus: OceanGate founder Stockton Rush, British billionaire Hamish Harding, Pakistani businessman and billionaire Shahzada Dawood, his 19-year-old son Suleiman, and French aquanaut Paul-Henri Narjol. Three days after the search began, the wreckage of the Titanic was discovered 500 meters from the bow of the Titanic. The most likely version of the Titan crash is implosion - the instantaneous destruction of the hull by enormous external pressure. An explosion version is also being considered. In June last year, an officer of the Russian submarine fleet Nikolai Cherkashin told the Regnum news agency that faulty batteries could have been the cause of the bathyscaphe's explosion. Plymouth University associate professor Jasper Graham-Jones said last July that the explosion could have been caused by microcracks caused by water pressure from regular diving. |
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