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Catastrophic implosion: The Titanic-bound submersible that went missing on Sunday with five people on board suffered a “catastrophic implosion,” killing everyone on board, US Coast Guard Rear Adm. John Mauger said Thursday. A remotely operated vehicle found the tail cone about 1,600 feet away from the bow of the shipwreck, Mauger said.
Who was on board: Tour company OceanGate Expeditions said the five passengers were Hamish Harding, Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman Dawood, Paul-Henri Nargeolet and OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush.
About the trip: The Titan began its descent Sunday to explore the wreckage of the Titanic, located about 13,000 feet below sea level in the North Atlantic Ocean.
Coast Guard says it had the "right gear" to assist search for Titan submersible
From CNN's Kristina Sgueglia
US Coast Guard Rear Adm. John Mauger said teams had the appropriate gear in the search effort for the Titan submersible.
Teams were “able to mobilize an immense amount of gear to the site in just really a remarkable amount of time,” he said Thursday, especially “given the fact that we started without any sort of vessel response plan for this or any sort of pre-staged resources.”
He reiterated the capabilities of the Pelagic remotely operating vehicle used as of Thursday morning.
A spokesperson for Pelagic Research Services confirmed to CNN that its ROV, which was the first to conduct a search for the submersible on the sea floor, found the debris field.
“So we really had the right gear on-site and worked as swiftly as possible to bring all of the capabilities that we had to bear to this search and rescue effort,” Mauger said.
He called it a “huge international” and “interagency” effort.
“This was an immense support, and we had the right gear on the bottom to find it,” he said as the news conference ended.
Vessels and medical personnel at search site to be demobilized in next 24 hours
From CNN staff
Authorities will begin to demobilize the medical personnel and nine vessels involved in the Titanic submersible search over the course of the next 24 hours, US Coast Guard Rear Adm. John Mauger said Thursday.
Remote operations will continue on the sea floor for an undetermined amount of time, he added.
Mauger said it is “too early” to discuss whether there will be an investigation, which he said would be a decision made outside of the search efforts he was in charge of.
Coast Guard: No apparent connection between detected banging noises and debris on sea floor
There doesn't appear to be a connection between the banging noises picked up by sonar earlier this week and where the debris from the Titan vessel was found on the sea floor, a US Coast Guard official said.
"Again, this was a catastrophic implosion of the vessel, which would have generated a significant broadband sound down there that the sonar buoys would have picked up," Rear Adm. John Mauger, the commander of the First Coast Guard District said, while also noting that he would check again with experts on any possible connection.
The official said that throughout the search effort his team "reacted to the information that we had available to us." He reiterated that it was a "really complex environment" and that experts are continuously analyzing all aspects of the search.
The wreckage of the Titanic is located about 900 miles off Cape Cod.
Catastrophic implosion: The Titanic-bound submersible that went missing on Sunday with five people on board suffered a “catastrophic implosion,” killing everyone on board, US Coast Guard Rear Adm. John Mauger said Thursday. A remotely operated vehicle found the tail cone about 1,600 feet away from the bow of the shipwreck, Mauger said.
Who was on board: Tour company OceanGate Expeditions said the five passengers were Hamish Harding, Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman Dawood, Paul-Henri Nargeolet and OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush.
About the trip: The Titan began its descent Sunday to explore the wreckage of the Titanic, located about 13,000 feet below sea level in the North Atlantic Ocean.
Coast Guard says it had the "right gear" to assist search for Titan submersible
From CNN's Kristina Sgueglia
US Coast Guard Rear Adm. John Mauger said teams had the appropriate gear in the search effort for the Titan submersible.
Teams were “able to mobilize an immense amount of gear to the site in just really a remarkable amount of time,” he said Thursday, especially “given the fact that we started without any sort of vessel response plan for this or any sort of pre-staged resources.”
He reiterated the capabilities of the Pelagic remotely operating vehicle used as of Thursday morning.
A spokesperson for Pelagic Research Services confirmed to CNN that its ROV, which was the first to conduct a search for the submersible on the sea floor, found the debris field.
“So we really had the right gear on-site and worked as swiftly as possible to bring all of the capabilities that we had to bear to this search and rescue effort,” Mauger said.
He called it a “huge international” and “interagency” effort.
“This was an immense support, and we had the right gear on the bottom to find it,” he said as the news conference ended.
Vessels and medical personnel at search site to be demobilized in next 24 hours
From CNN staff
Authorities will begin to demobilize the medical personnel and nine vessels involved in the Titanic submersible search over the course of the next 24 hours, US Coast Guard Rear Adm. John Mauger said Thursday.
Remote operations will continue on the sea floor for an undetermined amount of time, he added.
Mauger said it is “too early” to discuss whether there will be an investigation, which he said would be a decision made outside of the search efforts he was in charge of.
Coast Guard: No apparent connection between detected banging noises and debris on sea floor
There doesn't appear to be a connection between the banging noises picked up by sonar earlier this week and where the debris from the Titan vessel was found on the sea floor, a US Coast Guard official said.
"Again, this was a catastrophic implosion of the vessel, which would have generated a significant broadband sound down there that the sonar buoys would have picked up," Rear Adm. John Mauger, the commander of the First Coast Guard District said, while also noting that he would check again with experts on any possible connection.
The official said that throughout the search effort his team "reacted to the information that we had available to us." He reiterated that it was a "really complex environment" and that experts are continuously analyzing all aspects of the search.
The wreckage of the Titanic is located about 900 miles off Cape Cod.