The Coast Guard maintained that the discovery occurred about 500 meters from the bow of the Titanic, at the bottom of the sea.
Muegler added that it is too soon to tell when the sub implosion occurred. A Coast Guard expert noted that five different large wrecks were found indicating that it was the wreckage of the submarine.
When asked by reporters about the possibility of recovering the bodies of the victims, Mauger said he did not have an answer. “This is an incredibly unforgiving environment down there at the bottom of the sea.”
OceanGate Explorations also released a statement informing that the five people who crewed Titan are dead.
“We now believe that our CEO Stockton Rush, Shahzada Dawood and her son Suleman Dawood, Hamish Harding and Paul-Henri Nargeolet, have unfortunately been lost,” the company said in a statement.
A robotic deep-sea vessel discovered a “wreckage field” on Thursday while searching for a missing tourist submersible on the ocean floor near the wreckage of the Titanic, the US Coast Guard said earlier.
The desperate search for the 22-foot Titan submersible came at a critical time Thursday morning, when it was feared the five people on board had run out of air, but authorities vowed to keep searching the remote Atlantic. North.