All five persons aboard missing submersible that went in search of the Titanic confirmed dead

ALL five persons aboard the missing submersible sent out to search the wreck of the Titanic have been confirmed as dead with OceanGate the company that owns the vessel issuing a statement top that effect.

On Sunday, the Titanic-bound submersible went missing with five people on board but it has now been confirmed that it suffered a catastrophic implosion, killing everyone on board. Read Admiral John Mauger of the US Coast Guard, added that a remotely operated vehicle found the tail cone of the Titan about 1,600 feet away from the bow of the shipwreck.

It had been hoped that the five men aboard the vessel might survive but OceanGate has now confirmed that Hamish Harding, Paul-Henri Nargeolet, Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman Dawood and Stockton Rush, the chief executive of OceanGate Expeditions, have all died. Their submersible was descending to explore the wreckage of the luxury liner, the Titanic, located 900 miles east of Cape Cod and about 13,000 feet below sea level.

An OceanGate spokesman said: “We now believe that our chief executive Stockton Rush, Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman Dawood, Hamish Harding, and Paul-Henri Nargeolet, have sadly been lost.”

Rescue teams had earlier expanded their search underwater as they raced against time to find a Titan deep-diving tourist submersible that went missing near the wreck of the Titanic with five people on board and limited oxygen. However, a few hours after a debris field was discovered by an underwater robot searching near the wreck of the Titanic for the missing submersible, the deaths were confirmed.

This development came after rescuers insisted that the multinational mission to locate the craft was still focused on finding the crew alive despite fears that the vessel’s oxygen may have run out. However, the US Coast Guard later confirmed that the debris field was found within the search area by an remotely operated vehicle near the Titanic.