When asked whether any remains may be recovered, Mauger noted the “incredibly unforgiving environment,” adding, “I don’t have an answer for prospects at this time.” A medical expert said a deep-sea implosion would leave behind no recoverable remains. Once the search began, crews had sonar buoys in the water “nearly continuously” and did not detect any “catastrophic events,” Mauger said. The sound was determined to be “not definitive” and “the decision was made to continue our mission as a search and rescue and make every effort to save the lives on board.” The information was “immediately shared” with on-scene commanders leading the search and used to narrow the search area, the official said. Officials have yet to conclusively determine whether the devastating implosion occurred at the moment when the submersible stopped communicating about 1 hour and 45 minutes into its dive, Mauger said.Ī Navy review of acoustics data detected an “anomaly consistent with an implosion or explosion” on Sunday in the general area the Titan was diving when it went silent, a senior Navy official told CNN. Marine traffic tracking sites Friday morning show a line of ships headed back to St. John’s, Newfoundland, by early Saturday, a source with Horizon Maritime, the company that owns the ship, told CNN’s Miguel Marquez. Meantime, Titan’s mother ship leaves the search area Friday and is expected arrive back at port in St. “So I would encourage us to hold off on speculation until we have more data to go on.” “There are teams on site that are still going to be collecting data for the next few days, weeks, maybe months, and it’s going to be a long time before we know exactly what happened down there,” Sohnlein told CNN on Friday morning. OceanGate co-founder Guillermo Sohnlein asked people not to rush judgment over the catastrophic loss. ROV missions are expected to continue for about another week, according to Mahoney.
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