Fragments of the Titan submarine washed ashore in Canada

He Canadian ship Horizon Arctic deposited this Wednesday at Port of Saint John of Newfoundland (Canada) remains ofsubmerged titanwhich exploded on June 18 when it was descending with five passengers towards the remains of the Titanic.

Images captured by Canadian public broadcaster CBC show Horizon Arctic cranes unloading large pieces of Titan early Wednesday morning at the port of San Juan de Newfoundland.

Horizon Arctic, operated by the Canadian company that also owns the Polar Prince, Titan’s mother ship, retrieved the wreckage from the bottom of the Atlantic using the remotely operated vehicle Odysseus.

The company that owns Odysseus, Pelagic Research Servicesreported today in a statement that the team has “successfully” completed offshore operations and is now conducting its “demobilization process” on the Horizon Arctic, after ten days of work.

Among the images released by the CBC, the submarine’s bow can be seen intact, a gray hemispherical piece with a small opening through which the ship’s passengers could see out.

The pane appears to have lost a piece of the transparent material covering it.

Another part of the Titan he took over Arctic horizon It is a large area of ​​what appears to be machinery located at the rear of the vehicle.

Titan is made of titanium and carbon fiber.

As soon as the Horizon Arctic docked at one of the docks in the port of Saint John, Newfoundland, a team of investigators from Canada’s Transportation Safety Board (TSB) boarded the ship.

Both the TSB and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police have launched investigations to determine the circumstances of the Titan’s crash.

The TSB indicated that, as the authority responsible for the submarine’s mother ship, it would “conduct a safety investigation into the circumstances of the operation carried out by the Canadian ship Polar Prince”.

The Coast Guard The US this Sunday announced an official investigation to find out the causes of the explosion suffered by the Titanic submarine, which disappeared a week ago with five people on board while traveling to see the remains of the Titanic.

Last Sunday, the US Coast Guard announced another official investigation into the loss of the submarine, which will try to answer the reasons for the tragedy.

He will lead the investigation Captain Jason Neubauerwho explained at the press conference that the main goal is to “prevent something similar from happening” in the future, giving “necessary recommendations to improve maritime security all over the world”.

The Polar Prince was in charge of towing the submarine Titan on the 16th with five passengers on board from the port of San Juan de Terranova to the point in the Atlantic where it was sunk, some 600 kilometers southeast of where the remains of the Titanic rest. .

According to US authorities, the Polar Prince lost contact with the Titan on Sunday, June 18, 105 minutes after it began its dive towards the Titanic.

The crash of the Titan caused the death of its five passengers: millionaire Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood with his son Suleman, a 19-year-old student; British researcher Hamish Harding; French explorer Paul-Henry Nargeolet and CEO of OceanGate, Stockton Rush.