All individuals on board the submersible named Titan are presumed to be dead.
POLITICS NIGERIA reports that this was made known in a statement issued on Thursday evening by OceanGate, the diving company overseeing the ill-fated Titanic tour expedition.
The announcement followed the discovery of wreckage believed to belong to the Titan in close proximity to the iconic Titanic site, as search and rescue teams diligently scoured the depths of the North Atlantic.
“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,” the company said.
Despite fervent efforts to locate the crew members alive, concerns regarding dwindling oxygen supplies had heightened anxieties. Nonetheless, rescue teams had maintained their focus on locating the crew members amidst this multinational mission.
“Experts within the unified command are meticulously assessing the information,” stated a tweet from the US Coast Guard, which also reported that the debris field had been found “within the search area by an ROV (Remotely Operated Vehicle) near the Titanic.”
Since the early hours of Sunday morning, its whereabouts have remained unknown.
The vessel was used to take people to see the wreck of the Titanic in the Atlantic Ocean.
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