New photos show apparent pieces of the Titanic sub wreckage pulled from the ocean floor
- Apparent debris from the imploded Titan submersible has been hauled up from the ocean floor.
- New photos show the mangled wreckage being unloaded by a Canadian ship in Canada.
Large pieces of apparent debris from the Titan tourist submersible that imploded — killing all five people on board as the vessel headed to the shipwreck site of the RMS Titanic in the depths of the North Atlantic — have been pulled up from the ocean floor.
New photos published by the Associated Press on Wednesday show apparent chunks from the sub being unloaded by a crane from the ship Horizon Arctic at the Canadian Coast Guard pier in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada.
The deep-sea submersible, operated by OceanGate Expeditions, suffered a catastrophic implosion in the ocean's depths, shattering its debris 1,600 feet away from the wreckage of the sunken RMS Titanic, the United States Coast Guard revealed last Thursday.
The 21-foot sub went missing on June 18 after it lost communication with its mothership less than two hours into its journey to the bottom of the ocean floor off the coast of Newfoundland.
A days-long extensive, international search by land, air, and sea was launched to locate the vessel as the catastrophe gripped much of the globe.
The Coast Guard is now leading an investigation to determine what caused the Titan sub to implode on its dive to the famous shipwreck 12,500 feet below the ocean's surface.
OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, British billionaire Hamish Harding, British Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood, his teenage son, Suleman, and Titanic expert Paul-Henri Nargeolet were the five people killed aboard the sub.
In the aftermath of the disaster, it emerged experts had previously raised safety concerns about the carbon fiber and titanium sub.
A former OceanGate employee alleged in a 2018 lawsuit that the sub's safety could be compromised by poor "quality control and safety" protocols that "paying passengers would not be aware" of.