A top-secret U.S. Navy team discovered the implosion of the Titan submarine on Sunday, meaning that the international rescue operation and the apparent race against time before the ship ran out of air was in vain from the start.
The Navy’s acoustic system detected an “anomaly” that can have been an explosion or implosion in the area where the submarine dived shortly after the ship lost contact with its mothership on Sunday, in line with a Wall Street Journal report.
A U.S. Navy official said the intelligence was immediately transferred to the command post. Nevertheless, the information was “not final”, so the decision was made to “make every effort to avoid wasting lives on board” and proceed the search and rescue mission.
The world was paralyzed when details emerged on Tuesday from internal e-mails that claimed Canadian Navy and surveillance and a patrol plane picked up a “rumbling” sound every half-hour, giving hope that the five men on board were still alive.
![Titan submarine operated by OceanGate Expeditions to investigate the wreck of the sunken SS Titanic.](https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/shutterstock_editorial_Image_of_the_Missing_Titan_Sub_13979464a.jpg?w=800)
Three ships – John Cabot, Skandi Vinland and Atlantic Merlin – joined the search on Wednesday, in addition to a French ship with remote-controlled vehicles.
U.S. Coast Guard Rear Admiral John Mauger he told the Today Show on Thursday that “people’s will to live” should be taken under consideration. during complex search and rescue missions.
The entire world watched feverish rescue efforts as officials predicted air supplies for the crew would run out at 7:08 a.m. EST on Thursday.
![The US Coast Guard cutter Warren Deyampert is docked as a member of the Coast Guard passes by, Tuesday, June 20, 2023.](https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Titanic_Tourist_Sub_00805-50c5f.jpg?w=1024)
Nevertheless, ship debris found on the ocean floor confirmed that the Titan and its passengers died in a “catastrophic implosion”, almost definitely when the ship plunged into the black ocean depths on Sunday.
The wreckage from the submarine was found just 1,600 feet from the resting place of the RMS Titanic, which sank in 1912.
Passengers aboard the submarine were British billionaire explorer Hamish Harding, French Titanic expert Paul-Henri Nargeolet, OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his 19-year-old son Sulaiman.
![In this photo released by Action Aviation, the underwater Titan is prepared to dive into a remote area of the Atlantic Ocean during the Titanic expedition on Sunday, June 18, 2023.](https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Titanic_Tourist_Sub_22623-5a3a0.jpg?w=1024)
The five headed to the bottom of the Atlantic 12,500 feet below the ocean’s surface to view the stays of the Titanic.
Titanic director James Cameron, who also traveled the deep sea 33 times on a special submarine, told the BBC that he and other members of the deep sea exploration community imagine that if Titan lost communication and tracking concurrently, all passengers can be out of business. survived.
The 68-year-old filmmaker and deep-sea explorer criticized the futile rescue effort and called it a “nightmare farce”.
“So far as I’m concerned, it’s just been cruel, slowly turning the screw over 4 days because on Monday I discovered the truth,” Cameron told the BBC.
“I felt in my bones what had happened. Failure of the submarine’s electronics and its communication system, in addition to the tracking transponder concurrently – the submarine disappeared.
The cost of the rescue mission, which involved the United States, France and Canada, can be “tens of millions”, said Chris Boyer, executive director of the National Association for Search and Rescue, he told the Latest York Times.