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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Bevan Hurley and Tara Cobham

Five men on missing Titanic sub confirmed dead after debris reveals ‘catastrophic implosion’

Dirty Dozen Productions/OceanGate/AFP/Getty

The five crew members on board the missing submersible Titan died in a “catastrophic implosion”, the US Coast Guard has confirmed.

Oceangate Expeditions CEO Stockton Rush, Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman, British billionaire Hamish Harding, and French adventurer Paul-Henri Nargeolet were on board the Titan when it lost communications with a support ship less than two hours into a 4,000m dive to the Titanic shipwreck on Sunday.

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