Now the mystery of the bodies of 350 Pakistanis on the sunken migrant boat remains suspicious

The mystery of the stray “Titan” in the North Atlantic has been solved. It has been known since Thursday that the five crew members of the submarine died in an accident during their expedition to the wreck of the “Titanic”. But the drama still raises many questions.

When exactly did the submarine implode?

Contact between the mother ship and the “Titan” was lost on Sunday at 2:45 p.m. our time. Diving expert James Cameron believes this was also the time of the implosion; it is unlikely that another event would simultaneously disrupt the boat’s communications and navigation, Cameron told ABC.

A U.S. Navy underwater acoustic detection system apparently recorded the implosion. “The US Navy conducted an analysis of the acoustic data and found an anomaly due to an implosion or explosion near the location of the ‘Titan’ submarine when communications failed,” a spokesperson told ABC.

Does the search end now?

The search is not stopped, but reduced. On Friday, the US Coast Guard plans to begin withdrawing personnel and vessels from the search area about 450 miles off the coast of Newfoundland, Chief John Mauger said. However, operations on the seabed would continue until further notice. At the moment, the focus is on documenting the site and evaluating data.

Ten ships and several aircraft had recently taken part in the search. In addition to the US and Canadian coast guards, privately operated special ships also entered the sea area, which have diving robots and kilometers of cable for a possible recovery of the “Titan” on board. It is conceivable that the search for the debris and the remains of the crew will now continue in a closed circle.

Will the bodies of the five men ever be found?

The helpers have so far declined to answer this question, but it seems rather unlikely. Human remains may have been found in the rubble of the “Titan”, from which the victims can be deduced. The immense force of the implosion must have literally crushed the people in the boat. The pressure at a depth of 3,500 meters corresponds to about 350 kilograms per square centimeter.

In principle, however, it is possible to recover corpses from this depth. This was demonstrated by the recovery ship “Ile de Sein” in 2011. The team then succeeded for the first time in recovering bodies from the wreckage of the Air France plane that crashed over the Atlantic Ocean on June 1, 2009 with 228 people on board board. . No one survived the accident and 50 bodies were recovered afterwards.

This was possible because the corpses of the passengers sank along with the plane’s wreckage and were not exposed to a sudden implosion like the humans in the “Titan”. The cold and low oxygen levels at a depth of 4,000 meters allow tissue to be preserved; however, scavengers live on the seabed, which can also devour a whale carcass in a matter of days. Also, once back in the air, human remains can decompose very quickly.