Pieces of the Titan submarine, which imploded on its way to the Titanic, have been pictured for the first time since the tragic incident.
The submersible disappeared earlier this month resulting in a major search and rescue operation before debris was discovered.
Pictures show the pieces being unloaded from the US Coast Guard ship Sycamore and Horizon Arctic at the Canadian Coast Guard pier in St John's, Newfoundland, reports the Mirror.
Coast guard found the wreckage around 1,600 feet from the bow of the Titanic.
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All five people, including Strathclyde Uni student Suleman Dawood, lost their lives. Their families now have the chance to see the clear damage that was caused.
Investigators from the US, Canada, France and the United Kingdom are working closely together on the probe of the June 18 accident, which happened in an “unforgiving and difficult-to-access region" of the North Atlantic, said US Coast Guard Rear Adm. John Mauger, of the Coast Guard First District.
The five major pieces of debris are the biggest clues in the probe
Undersea expert Paul Hankin said: “We found five different major pieces of debris that told us that it was the remains of the Titan.
“The initial thing we found was the nose cone, which was outside of the pressure hull. We then found a large debris field, within that debris field we found the front-end bell of the pressure hull.
The debris was located by a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) named 'Odysseus' on Thursday last week.
The search took place in a complex ocean environment where the Gulf Stream meets the Labrador Current, an area where challenging and hard-to-predict ocean currents can make controlling an underwater vehicle more difficult, said Donald Murphy, an oceanographer who served as chief scientist of the Coast Guard’s International Ice Patrol.
