Titan submersible was salvaged ashore, found dead people trapped inside?

Recently, the US Coast Guard has officially successfully recovered the wreck of the Titan submersible on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, inside the authorities confirmed to have found "some things" believed to be "the bodies of the victims". passed away".

Reuters quoted a statement by the US Coast Guard as saying that the rescue team successfully recovered the remains of the Titan submersible near the location of the Titanic wreck after the accident that killed five people. In addition, authorities also found victims inside the wreck of the Titan submersible that crashed during the Titanic expedition earlier this month.

Also according to Reuters, the remains of the ill-fated Titan submersible and the body parts of the victim were brought to the harbor of St. John's in Newfoundland on June 28. According to the US Coast Guard, the above important evidence will be transferred to the US for analysis and evaluation by a maritime investigative committee to determine the cause of the accident.

The US side will also conduct an examination of the supposed human parts found around the wreck of the Titan submersible. The Titan submersible included British explorer Hamish Harding, French submarine expert Paul-Henri Nargeolet, British-Pakistani tycoon Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman, and Stockton Rush, the chief executive of the exploration company. OceanGate Expeditions submersible.

The victims were confirmed dead immediately when the Titan exploded under the pressure of the North Atlantic at a depth of more than 3km. The successful recovery of the Titan submersible is expected to shed more light on the cause of the catastrophic explosion that shattered the ship's hull during a tour of the Titanic wreck on June 18.

Canada's Transportation Safety Board will also launch a separate investigation into the crash. Finding and salvaging the wreckage is a key part of the investigation to determine what happened during the OceanGate operation after years of raising questions that raised serious doubts about the submersible's design. .

On June 18, while diving to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean to visit the wreck of the Titanic, the Titan submersible carrying 5 people suddenly lost contact with the Polar Prince floating ship. After several days of searching, pieces of the ship were found on the ocean floor and confirmed to have been crushed and blown up. The accident has raised questions about the safety risk posed by seabed explorations organized by private companies such as OceanGate. In addition, there is evidence that OceanGate ignored safety principles when changing the design of the Titan submersible.

In particular, the most controversial is the fact that the controller of the "Titan" submersible using a video game controller (gamepad) is sold online for about 50 USD. People are skeptical because it is too simple and trivial.

Cruises to the bottom of the ocean on "Titan" cost 250,000 USD each, could their lives really depend on cheap video game controllers? Some have pointed out that the company that owns the "Titan" "treats this expensive project with a child's playfulness because the entire submarine is controlled by a cheap gamepad".

Last year, Mr. Stockton Rush, founder and CEO of OceanGate Expeditions, the company that owns the "Titan", said in an interview with CBS News that the Titan was piloted. with a video game controller to operate.

The Wall Street Journal, based on the video posted at the time, deduced that the controller in Mr. Stockton Rush's hand looked like it was converted from a Logitech product wireless video game controller. International, sold on the Internet for $49.99. It is not possible to confirm at this time whether Logitech products will be used in this Titan mission, and Ocean Gate Company has not yet responded or reached for comment.

Another serious flaw is the communication problem between Titan and the mother ship "Polar Prince" on the sea surface. After the Titan ship disappeared on June 18, there were many opinions on social networks that the internet service "Starlink" was the culprit of the accident, but on June 21, Starlink boss Elon Musk spoke up. negate.

Much of the suspicion stems from earlier tweets on the Twitter account of Ocean Gate Expeditions, the company that owns the "Titan", which wrote that "Starlink" would provide the necessary contact information for the mission. tourism mission to visit the ship "Titanic" in the whole year of 2023.