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Pieces of the doomed Titan tourist submarine are being brought ashore offering the first glimpses of the wreckage since the catastrophic implosion that killed its five passengers.
The chunks of the ruptured hull are being brought to the Canadian Coast Guard pier in St. John's, Newfoundland by an Ocean Gate vessel named Horizon Arctic.
The debris field of the Titan submarine was found approximately 1,600 feet from the bow of the Titanic’s wreck and discovered days after the submersible should have returned.
At that point, had the small vessel still been intact its oxygen supply would have been depleted spelling a dark prognosis for those on board anyways.
While it is not entirely clear when the implosion took place, the Titan is reported to have lost contact with its mother ship, the Polar Prince, one hour and forty-five minutes after she dove.
Those aboard the Polar Prince only alerted authorities to something being amiss when the vessel failed to return to the surface eight hours later
Rear Admiral John Mauger of the US Coast Guard however believes that the sonar buoys deployed during the search would have detected the catastrophic implosion due to the significant broadband sound it created.
Needless to say, the latter is under the assumption that the Titan was still in one piece when the sonar boys were deployed.
With the recovery of the Titan's wreckage, officials hope to gain further insight into the circumstances leading up to the implosion, per Daily Mirror.
In addition to the clues the wreckage might provide, the Transportation Safety Board of Canada has asked for the recordings and communication data leading up to the catastrophe.
While the organization claims that the motivation for the request was not to assign blame, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police asserts that if the accident was due to any laws broken, there would be charges pressed.