Experts recover 'presumed human remains' in Titan wreck
The story of the Titan submersible continues to develop in an even sadder direction as experts on the site of the tragedy have recovered “presumed human remains.”
Agence France-Presse reports that the US Coast Guard experts have “carefully recovered” what remains of the passengers of the ill-fated submersible. The remains will now be handed to medical professionals who will conduct a formal analysis.
The passengers aboard the Titian were British billionaire Hamish Harding, French submarine expert Paul-Henri Nargeolet, Pakistani-British tycoon Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman, and Stockton Rush, CEO of the sub's operator OceanGate Expeditions.
If things had turned out differently, popular YouTuber MrBeast may have also been part of the tragedy. On Twitter, he revealed that he had been invited to take part in a trip to the Titanic.
I was invited earlier this month to ride the titanic submarine, I said no. Kind of scary that I could have been on it pic.twitter.com/bQUnaRiczA
-- MrBeast (@MrBeast) June 25, 2023
More debris has also been recovered from the site, which will now also be taken by the US Coast Guard to be analyzed further.
“There is still a substantial amount of work to be done to understand the factors that led to the catastrophic loss of the Titan and help ensure a similar tragedy does not occur again," said the leader of the US probe into the tragedy, Captain Jason Neubauer.
The submersible first went missing on June 18 just one hour and 45 minutes into its descent. A few days later, the US Coast Guard confirmed that the Titan had suffered a “catastrophic implosion” that took the lives of its five passengers.
Since the incident, numerous stories about the quality of the Titan came out in the media. In particular, Titanic director and deep-sea explorer James Cameron told ABC News that OceanGate had been previously warned about the safety of the Titan but had ignored those warnings.
"I'm struck by the similarity of the Titanic disaster itself, where the captain was repeatedly warned about ice ahead of his ship, and yet he steamed at full speed into an ice field on a moonless night, and many people died as a result," he said. "And for a very similar tragedy, where warnings went unheeded, to take place at the same exact site, with all the diving that's going on all around the world, I think it's just astonishing. It's really quite surreal."
