According to the US Coast Guard, experts have found what they believe to be human remains within the Titan sub, which imploded while being taken to the Titanic wreck, killing five people.
The government announced that “United States medical experts will conduct a formal analysis of presumed human remains that have been carefully recovered.”
British adventurer Hamish Harding, French submarine expert Paul-Henri Nargeolet, Pakistani-British businessman Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman, and Stockton Rush, CEO of OceanGate Expeditions, were all on board.
They most likely perished instantly when the Titan sub, which was about the size of an SUV, imploded at a depth of more than two miles beneath the crushing pressure of the North Atlantic.
A challenging search and recovery effort came to an end earlier that day when mangled debris from the small submersible was offloaded in eastern Canada.
According to the group, the debris will now be transported onboard a US Coast Guard cutter to a US port for additional analysis.
