Sub operator of the OceanGate said all five people onboard a missing submersible near the wreck of the Titanic have been lost.
The company said in a statement
on Thursday.
The statement reads, “We now
believe that our CEO Stockton Rush, Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman Dawood,
Hamish Harding, and Paul-Henri Nargeolet, have sadly been lost.”
Rescue teams had earlier expanded
their search underwater on June 20, 2023, as they raced against time to find a
Titan deep-diving tourist submersible that went missing near the wreck of the Titanic
with five people on board and limited oxygen.
The confirmation comes a few
hours after a “debris field” was discovered by an underwater robot searching
near the wreck of the Titanic for the missing submersible.
The development came after
rescuers insisted that the multinational mission to locate the craft was still
focused on finding the crew alive despite fears that the vessel’s oxygen may
have run out.
“Experts within the unified
command are evaluating the information,” the US Coast Guard said in a tweet.
The coast guard said the debris
field was found “within the search area by an ROV (Remotely Operated Vehicle)
near the Titanic.”
It did not give more details but
said it would hold a press briefing in Boston later on Thursday.
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