Presumed human remains found in Titan sub wreckage - BBC News

Human remains are believed to have been found in wreckage of the Titan submersible, the US Coast Guard has announced.

Pieces of the sub, which imploded while on a deep dive to the Titanic, have been recovered from the seabed.

Coast Guard officials say the wreckage includes the sub's landing frame and a rear cover .

US medical professionals are to conduct a formal analysis of what is believed to be human remains.

All five people on board the vessel died on 18 June after it imploded about 90 minutes into a dive to view the 1912 shipwreck, which lies at a depth of 3,800m in the north Atlantic.

Those on board were 61-year-old Stockton Rush; British explorer Hamish Harding, 58; Shahzada Dawood, 48, and his son, Suleman Dawood, 19; and French diver Paul-Henry Nargeolet who was 77.

Huw Edwards presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Jonathan Amos.

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[evilpandakillabzonattkoccu]

*Spolier Alert: The Title Is Not Just Misleading But Has Nothing To Do With Anything Stated In This Video.* 👍

[therealjesterguys]

Nothing went tragically wrong, everything went exactly how health authorities warned the CEO they would go. He built his submerine out of parts from a camping shop, bought a blue tooth console controller off amazon to man the sub, the windows couldnt handle the pressure he wanted them to go to and he had been warned countless times that his submerine was too dangerous to be manned. If you ask me, this is iust another group of stupid billionares who got what was coming for them.

The ONLY victim my heart genuinely aches for was the son. He had only come and agreed to go on the sub to support his father on fathers day. He was actually terrified of the sub and did not want to go on it, but did it for his dad and the both of them ended up dying before the sub even got close to the titanic, especially since the sub lost contact within the first hour or 2, the whole expedition was 7hours+.

[Saltine_the_clown]

Canadian Coast Guard🇨🇦 did an excellent job recovering salvage

[adhitya]

That ROV is very good at doing its job. Kudos to everyone who is involved to the salvage operation.

[PathanShortVideos]

This salvage was done incredibly fast. I thought it would take weeks to bring up such large and heavy pieces of the wreckage. Kudos to the coast guard and the others assisting in this well organized operation. Prayers to the deceased and their families.

[itsmebernie]

Why does the video title mention human remains and no discussion of this during the video?

[Shipfixer]

I'm just an average guy, but even I can see that the two pieces that were fabricated from titanium fared well enough. The carbon fiber wasn't proven to be able to sustain crushing depths as those. But They all said it was just fine. Progress shouldn't be hindered by safety worries, right.

[surfn]

Why no comments about human remains when it’s in the title? I can’t believe there would be any. The pressure would literally crush bones to dust.

[fluffy-puffy-puppy]

Impressed they managed to recover that much.

[gdewyg]

We don't fear death but the way we die . Rest in peace

[spawnmc]

That's one hell of a clickbait title bbc...

[AurelioLopez]

Most people are taught that you only need a good job to become rich these billionaires are operating on a whole other playbook that many don't even know exists.

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[troophq]

The fact they were able to retrieve this off the sea floor at this depth shows the determination by everyone involved.

[PythonNC]

Presumed human remains found in Titan sub wreckage - BBC News

This was the title and yet not a single statement in the video stating "human remains"

[bendenisereedy]

A plastic structure like a bike frame or a car chassis reinforced by carbon fibre is massively strong in tension, same as concrete with steel reinforcement bars inside, as long as engineers have worked out how to transfer the stresses into it evenly. But in compression it's only as strong as the plastic resin that holds the fibres in place.

Edit: my carbon bike frame is a perfect two-triangle structure with lovely smooth junctions to carry the stresses and carbon fibre to give tensile strength. In tests carbon frames have been found much stronger than alloy frames. But I know my frame tubes are terribly vulnerable to point impacts and crushing, much more so than a steel or aluminium tube and once the resin has cracked the tube will crush like a toilet roll holder.

[MPhonemicEnglish]

Both titanium end caps recovered and appear to have little or no damage. Both titanium ring-shaped flanges which were affixed to the ends of the carbon fiber cylinder recovered and appear to have little or no damage. Notably absent is any mention of any amount of carbon fiber pressure vessel cylinder being recovered.

[benburton]

I know nothing about deep sea subs, but other deep sea vehicles I've seen have had twice the depth of window port holes than it had..

[sum]

I have a background in engineering from my time during after school woodshop classes so i'm somewhat of an expert in these kind of endeavours. With respect to Professor Thorton here, I actually think the key part we need to begin examining is the binding of the paper mache used to construct the hull and see if enough PVA glue had been applied (a tricky ratio to get right in paper mache). Assuming those conform to Blue Peter standards, we can then move on to the parts bound by parcel tape.

[TheUKMediaWatch]

Dying in an ocean as deep as your pockets.
in a vessel as tiny as the shanty houses you
turned your noses up at…In a darkness as
expansive as your ego…going to see the
final resting place of the souls whom you
disturbed with your curiosity, but they still
eagerly welcomed you.

[michaelross]

Quite amazing how many submersible experts there are in the comments.