“Suspected human remains” were discovered in the wreckage of the Titan submarine, officials say

“Suspected human remains” have been found in the wreck of the submarine Titan, the US Coast Guard announced on Wednesday.

Several recognizable parts of the ship were hoisted ashore earlier in the afternoon, including the nose of the submarine and a large panel that appears to emerge from the tail.

Amid those recovered pieces, Coast Guard officials said they discovered human remains, which will now be transported aboard a ship to a port in the United States, where they will be tested and analyzed.

The discoveries surprised experts who suspected Titan was completely destroyed when it suffered a “catastrophic implosion” during a voyage to the wreckage of the Titanic, killing all five on board.

Earlier on Wednesday, a coroner told DailyMail.com she believed the remains of those on board — including British billionaire Hamish Harding, French explorer Paul-Henri Nargeolet, OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, and father and son Shahzada and Suleman Dawood — would probably never be found.

Officials said Wednesday the remains had been “gently removed from the wreckage” recovered earlier in the day.

“I am grateful for the coordinated international and inter-agency support to recover and preserve this vital evidence at extreme offshore distances and depths,” Captain Jason Neubauer of the Marine Board of Investigation said in a statement.

“The evidence will provide researchers from several international jurisdictions with critical insights into the cause of this tragedy,” he added.

But Neubauer noted that “significant work” still needs to be done to understand what happened to the Titan submarine and to “ensure that a similar tragedy does not happen again.”

The MBI will continue to collect evidence and conduct witness interviews to inform a public hearing about the incident, and Pelagic Research Services – whose remote-controlled vehicle discovered the debris fields – said the team is “still on a mission.” is.

“They have been working around the clock for ten days now, through the physical and mental challenges of this operation, and are eager to complete the mission and return to their loved ones,” the company said in a statement.

On Wednesday, a debris field was found on the seafloor 1,600 feet (500 meters) from the bow of the Titanic, which is more than two miles (nearly four kilometers) below the ocean’s surface and 400 miles off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada. .

The Canadian-flagged cargo ship Polar Prince towed the Titan out to sea last weekend, but lost contact about an hour and 45 minutes after the submarine launched into the depths of the ocean.

News of the missing ship sparked a multi-national search and rescue operation, which ended when officials announced that the submarine had likely imploded, instantly killing all on board.

As a result, Richland County coroner Naida Rutherford told DailyMail.com that it was unlikely that any human remains would ever be recovered during the search.

She said, “When you have an explosion or an implosion, there’s debris or traces of debris.

“There is a possibility, but given the environment in which this happened, it is highly unlikely that they will find any remains.

“Even on land you have animal activity, and in a vast ocean, so many animals and creatures, and the pressure down there.

‘I think it is unlikely that any remains will be found, certainly not in whole sections. Given the circumstances in which the implosion occurred, it would be very difficult to identify the remains – and it will be difficult to determine who they belonged to.

Their bodies would have sustained extensive thermal damage and blunt force trauma from the implosion. Those are things we know as fact.’

Years prior to the implosion, experts had warned that Stockton Rush’s self-designed submarine was unable to safely reach the wreckage of the Titanic on the ocean floor.

They said the carbon fiber hull, which housed the five crew members, was the “Achilles heel” as the material is not considered suitable for diving at the depths reached by the ship.

Titanic director James Cameron, a renowned deep-sea explorer and submarine expert, previously said the hull was likely broken into “very small pieces” during the incident.

‘If I had to put money down on what the finding [of the investigation] will be, the Achilles’ heel of the submarine was the composite cylinder that was the main hull that the humans were in,” he said.

“There were two titanium end caps on each end. They are relatively intact on the sea floor. But that carbon fiber composite cylinder is now just in very small pieces. It’s all rammed into one of the hemispheres. It’s pretty clear that that failed.’

Carbon fiber is prone to delamination, the process by which a material breaks into layers under pressure.

The craft’s titanium parts are believed to have weathered the disaster better, while the weaker carbon fiber parts – including the hull – were more likely to have been crushed into small pieces.

The parts lifted from the ocean seem to match Cameron’s observations, including that the larger piece was the ship’s titanium shell. Investigators will now try to confirm what each piece is.

But despite these incessant warnings from naval experts, OceanGate had assured the public for years that its Titan submarine was safe.

The company had boasted in promotional materials about Titan’s ‘Real Time Hull Health Monitoring’, which constantly checked the ship’s integrity during the dive.

The system used acoustic sensors and strain gauges to ‘analyze the effects of changing pressure on the vessel as the submarine dives deeper, and to accurately assess the integrity of the structure’.

But legal documents show that a former Director of Maritime Operations “expressed concern that this was problematic because this kind of acoustic analysis would only show when a component is on the verge of failure — often milliseconds before an implosion — and would not detect existing flaws.” before it was posted. pressure on the torso.’