Finally, the wreck from the small Titan submersible that was destroyed when it imploded in a recent dive was offloaded Wednesday in eastern Canada, leading to the recovery of mangled human remains and bringing an end to a difficult search-and-recovery operation.
Earlier, television images had displayed what appeared to be the Titan submersible’s nose cone and a side panel with electronics and wires hanging out being hoisted from a ship onto a flatbed truck at a Canadian Coast Guard terminal in St. John’s.
Pelagic Research, that owns the Odysseus remote-operated vehicle used in the search for the ill-fated submersible, said its offshore search-and-recovery operation has finally been concluded.
Spokesperson of the New York company, Jeff Mahoney remarked that, “We’ve finished our offshore (actions) and are basically demobilizing now and getting the team back to their loved ones and we’re going to get our assets back to our operations base in New York.”
He noted that the search and recovery effort was an extremely risky operation.
He described the operation further saying that, “It was extremely taxing and exhausting for the team who were working around the clock with almost no sleep this whole time, over 10 days of working. It was a very solemn process.”
But the Canadian officials have kept mum over the recovery of the sub debris.
Recall that, the Titan was reported missing on June 18 and the US Coast Guard said last Thursday that all five people aboard the submersible had died after the vessel suffered a catastrophic implosion.
More report on the operation disclosed that, a debris field was found on the seafloor, 1,600 feet (500 meters) from the bow of the Titanic, which sits more than two miles (nearly four kilometers) below the ocean’s surface and 400 miles off the coast of Newfoundland.
The declaration of the implosion has put an end to a multinational search-and-rescue operation which drew attention around the world since the tourist vessel went missing.
Pelagic Research said that the debris would possibly be handed over to investigators with the investigation of the submersible tragedy commencing in both Canada and the United States.
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