The chances of recovering the bodies of the five passengers aboard the doomed OceanGate submersible bound for the Titanic wreckage are extremely bleak, experts have said.
The four tourists, including two billionaires, and the CEO of OceanGate Expeditions were all killed when the submersible suffered a “catastrophic implosion,” the US Coast Guard announced Thursday.
It is unclear when the powerful underwater implosion occurred during the Titan’s journey to the wreckage 12,500 feet below the ocean’s surface — but due to the nature of the disaster, recovery efforts are extremely difficult.
“This is an incredibly unforgiving environment down there on the sea floor and the debris is consistent with a catastrophic implosion of the vessel,” Rear Adm. John Mauger of the US Coast Guard said at a press conference Thursday.
“We’ll continue to work and search the area down there but I don’t have an answer for prospects at this time,” he added of the bodies being recovered.
Source: NewYork Post