The Titan submersible experienced a malfunction six days before it imploded and killed five people, according to a former scientific director for OceanGate Expeditions. Marine scientist Steven Ross testified about the incident Thursday, Sept. 19 at a U.S. Coast Guard panel hearing on the 2023 tragedy, per CNN. Ross was …
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The last message from the imploded Titan submersible seemed to suggest the crew thought they were “all good here” before they lost contact. The U.S. Coast Guard Marine Board of Investigation revealed the final communication with its support ship the Polar Prince on Monday, the first day of a two-week …
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The Untied States Coast Guard said it recovered “presumed human remains” as it dredged up the remaining debris and evidence from the the Titan submersible disaster. In a statement, the Coast Guard said its Marine Board of Investigation “recovered” the remaining remnants last week, Oct. 4. The debris was “transferred …
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James Cameron has strongly denied a report that he is “in talks” to direct a streaming series about the Titan submersible tragedy. On Saturday, tabloid The Sun claimed that Cameron was discussing the series — which would form a bizarro thematic triptych with his Titanic and The Abyss — with …
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Robert Douglas Spedden’s grave is located in his family plot, usually surrounded by freshly cut grass. The headstone is incredibly small and stub-like, so no matter how many times you’ve been to Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery, you’ve probably never noticed it before. You were maybe there to visit Leonard Bernstein, Jean-Michel …
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The tragic tale of Oceangate’s Titan submersible captured the headlines and the thoughts of millions this week. That included Adele, who paused her Friday night residency gig in Las Vegas to poll the audience about whether they too would take a makeshift mini-submarine into the depths of the ocean to …
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The Titan submersible implosion was heard by a top secret U.S. Navy acoustic detection system, officials told the Wall Street Journal. The system, designed to detect enemy submarines, first heard the sub implosion hours after the craft began its journey, per the report. “The U.S. Navy conducted an analysis of …
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Director James Cameron appeared on ABC News after officials announced themissing Titan submersibleimploded underwater, killing the four passengers and a pilot onboard, just 200 meters off the bow of theTitanic wreckage. On Thursday, the Oscar-winning Titanic filmmaker told the outlet during an on-air interview that “many people in the community …
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A Canadian aircraft searching for the missing Titan submersible, which failed to return Sunday from an expedition to the wreckage of the Titanic, detected “banging” in 30-minute intervals coming from the area where the divers disappeared, according to internal email updates sent by the Department of Homeland Security’s National Operations …
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Authorities have confirmed “banging noises” continued into Wednesday in the search area where a submersible disappeared Sunday on a mission to explore the Titanic wreck site. At a press conference Wednesday afternoon, Capt. Jamie Frederick of the First Coast Guard District in Boston said the noises were first detected Tuesday. …
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