In a short statement confirming the investigation, the TSB said: “The TSB is launching an investigation into the fatal occurrence involving the Canadian-flagged vessel Polar Prince and the privately operated submersible Titan. The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) said a team of investigators had been deployed to St John’s in Canada to “gather information, conduct interviews and assess the occurrence”.īritish adventurer Hamish Harding and father and son Shahzada and Suleman Dawood were killed on board the Titan submersible when it catastrophically imploded, alongside the chief executive of the company responsible for the vessel, Stockton Rush, and French national Paul-Henri Nargeolet. Transportation Safety Board launches investigation into fatal Titan implosionĪ safety investigation is set to take place following the fatal implosion of the Titan submersible. We will bring you the latest updates on this developing situation in our blog which will load below. The others on board are Shahzada Dawood, his son Suleman and OceanGate’s chief executive and founder Stockton Rush, reportedly together with French submersible pilot Paul-Henry Nargeolet. Titan had five people on board, including British billionaire adventurer Hamish Harding. Titan lost communication with tour operators on Sunday while about 435 miles south of St John’s, Newfoundland, during a voyage to the Titanic shipwreck off the coast of Canada. The debris was confirmed to be from the Oceangate submersible and it was then confirmed that all five crew had died when the sub imploded. Read more: Yorkshire man was supposed to be on missing Titanic sub - but pulled out at last minuteīut at around 5pm BST on Thursday, the US Coastguard confirmed they had found debris near the Titanic wreck. Despite hopes being raised when "banging noises" were detected in the search for the missing submarine, no sign of the vessel could be traced. The vessel, which went missing on Monday, had a 96-hour oxygen supply in case of emergencies but that ran out on Thursday. The search for the missing Titanic submarine ended in heartbreak as it was confirmed that all five crew had died after the vessel imploded.
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