The US Coast Guard announced the discovery of wreckage from the missing Titan submersible near the Titanic. The debris field was found by a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) about half a kilometer away from the Titanic’s bow on the sea floor. The Coast Guard confirmed that the debris is consistent with the catastrophic loss of the submersible’s pressure chamber. OceanGate Expeditions, the company that owned and operated the submersible, expressed their belief that the five passengers on board, including a billionaire explorer and members of a prominent Pakistani family, had tragically been lost.
The submersible went missing during a dive to the Titanic wreck site in the North Atlantic, and an international search effort led by the US Coast Guard was underway.