UPDATE: A friend of two of the men missing aboard the titanic sub has CONFIRMED the debris found today was a “landing frame and rear cover from the submersible” after receiving a WhatsApp message LIVE on Sky News.
As a “debris field” was discovered in the search for Titan, a rescue expert told Sky News that the missing submersible’s landing frame and rear cover have been found. The US Coast Guard said that it is evaluating the information.
David Mearns, a rescue expert who knows two of the five men onboard, received a WhatsApp message suggesting that two crucial parts of the system have been detected. The hull is yet to be found, he said.
“They don’t use phrases like ‘debris field’ unless there’s no chance of a recovery of the men alive. A debris field implies a break-up of the submersible … that really sort of indicates what is the worst-case scenario, which is a catastrophic failure and generally that’s an implosion. The only saving grace is that it would have been immediate – literally in milliseconds – and the men wouldn’t have known what was happening,” David Mearns said.
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