The United States Coast Guard has found more remains of the Titanic submersible, including possible human remains, as part of the investigation being carried out to discover why the tragedy occurred that killed five people visiting the Titanic. under the ocean.
The engineers of the Marine Investigation Board that is analyzing the incident recovered and transferred on October 4, after an underwater operation, remains of the Titan submersible that they found on the Atlantic seabed.
“Other suspected human remains were carefully recovered from Titan’s debris and transported for analysis by U.S. medical professionals,” the Coast Guard said in a statement.
Investigators from the US National Transportation Safety Board and the Canadian Transportation Safety Board joined the salvage expedition as part of their respective investigations.
Engineers will continue analyzing evidence and interviewing witnesses before a public hearing into this tragedy.
On June 25, the US Coast Guard announced an official investigation to discover the causes of the implosion and Canadian authorities are carrying out another.
The objective is to prevent the event from being repeated and to do this a committee of experts is trying to decipher what happened to the submersible, which imploded on June 18.
Engineers may also make recommendations to the competent authorities regarding the imposition of civil or criminal sanctions.
After several days of searching, on June 22 the Coast Guard announced that some “debris” had been found near the area where the remains of the Titanic are located. Later, he confirmed that the remains corresponded to the external part of the Titan submersible.
The millionaire Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood was traveling with his son Suleman, a 19-year-old student; British explorer Hamish Harding; the French explorer Paul-Henri Nargeolet and the CEO of the OceanGate firm, Stockton Rush.
The OceanGate company, owner of the submersible and operator of the expeditions, announced in July the suspension of all its commercial operations and its exploration trips.
Aboard the Titan, hikers could participate in expeditions that lasted a total of eight days, although the dive to the Titanic at a depth of 3,800 meters took only about ten hours. The famous liner sank there in 1912 after colliding with an iceberg.