A Canadian-flagged ship brought ashore on Wednesday the wreckage of the Titan submersible, which exploded during a trip to the wreckage of the Titanic in mid-June, killing all five people on board, Reuters reported.

Video from the Canadian Broadcast Corporation shows broken parts of the submersible, wrapped in a white tarp, being lifted by a crane from the Horizon Arctic vessel in the port of St. Petersburg. John in Newfoundland on Wednesday morning.

The wreckage is expected to shed more light on the cause of the catastrophic implosion that claimed the lives of all on board – OceanGate Expeditions CEO Stockton Rush; British billionaire Hamish Harding; businessman of Pakistani origin Shahzada Dawood and his 19-year-old son Suleman; and French oceanographer Paul-Henri Narjolet.

Last week, Canadian and US authorities announced they were investigating the incident, which raised questions about the lack of regulation of such shipments.

The wreckage of the deep-sea submersible, operated by OceanGate Expeditions, was discovered on the seabed about 480 meters from the Titanic’s bow by a robotic vehicle last week, ending a five-day search for survivors.

“Our team has successfully completed offshore operations,” Pelagic Research, which operates the robot, said in a statement.

He declined to comment further, citing confidentiality.

Of the 10 submersibles in the world capable of diving as deep as the Titanic — nearly 4,000 meters from the surface — only OceanGate’s Titan has not been certified, said Will Konen, chairman of the Society for Marine Technology’s Manned Submersibles Committee. (MTS) viewing group.

Most tourist submersibles explore coral reefs and other natural phenomena at depths of 500 meters or less.

In 2018, Konen wrote a letter warning Stockton Rush, OceanGate’s chief executive, that Titan’s refusal of third-party certification could have a “disastrous” result. Rush, the pilot of the Titan, is one of those killed in the submersible’s accident.

“They died in such a way that they did not even suspect that they would die”

Many wonder if the crew knew what was going on. With such high pressure on the underwater vehicle, the explosion would occur in fractions of a millisecond.

A catastrophic failure occurs at a speed of more than 2,400 kilometers per hour, Eileen Marty, a former naval officer and professor at Florida International University, told CNN. She says the entire structure collapsed before the people inside realized there was a problem.

• “They died in such a way that they did not even suspect that they would die. Finally, among the many ways we can die, this one is painless,” she said.

The timeline of the tragedy, created in fractions of a millisecond

CNN also presented a timeline of events:

Sunday: Around 09:00, the “Titan” takes off from the ship “Polar Prince” and begins its two-hour dive to the wreckage of the “Titanic”. Communication with the ship was lost one hour and 45 minutes after the sinking. The US Coast Guard was alerted and a search began the same day. The U.S. Navy is detecting an explosion-like sound and relaying that information to commanders directing the search mission, a senior official told CNN. But the sound was determined to be “not conclusive,” the official said, and the search continues.

months: The Coast Guard of the United States and Canada continues the search on the surface and at depth. A Canadian aircraft carrier and two C-130 aircraft are conducting aerial and radar searches, while sonar beacons are deployed to pick up sounds in the water column. Officials say if the submersible is still intact, the crew still has 70 to 96 hours of oxygen. The US Coast Guard says its priority is to locate the submersible. One of the passengers is British businessman Hamish Harding.

Tuesday: According to an internal government document, the sonar picks up underwater sounds at 30-minute intervals. The US Coast Guard says a Canadian P-3 aircraft also detected underwater noises, but the search “returned negative results”. The search develops into a large-scale international operation with underwater capabilities. More ships and planes join the mission. The other crew members have been identified as Stockton Rush, CEO and founder of OceanGate, Pakistani billionaire Shahzada Dawood, his son Suleman Dawood and French diver Paul-Henri Narjolet.

Wednesday: The US Coast Guard expands the search area as oxygen levels in the submersible have reached critical levels. A fleet of ships and equipment is being deployed, including a US Navy rescue system capable of lifting ships from the ocean floor. More sounds are heard and a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) moves in to try to identify them. But without result. Questions have been raised about the safety of the submersible, especially after the operators of OceanGate Expeditions withdrew from the Titan’s safety assessment.

Thursday: A remotely piloted vehicle reaches the ocean floor for the first time as new high-tech ships and medical personnel move to the search site as rescue efforts reach a critical point. Around noon, the US Coast Guard announced that an ROV had discovered a field of debris in the search area, and the debris was later believed to be from the submarine’s outer hull. OceanGate appreciates that, unfortunately, passengers do get “lost”. The U.S. Coast Guard says in new intelligence that five large pieces of submarine wreckage have been found, indicating a “catastrophic loss of a pressure chamber.” Around 3:00 p.m., Rear Admiral John Mauger announces that the submarine has suffered a “catastrophic breakdown”, killing all five men on board. The submarine is located approximately 400 meters from the Titanic wreckage.

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