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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Rachel Sharp,Io Dodds and Bevan Hurley

Mystery implosion, ‘false hope’ rescue and search for blame: Nine looming questions in Titanic sub catastrophe

Reuters

The desperate five-day search for the missing Titan submersible came to a tragic end on Thursday when debris was discovered close to the Titanic shipwreck.

OceanGate CEO and founder Stockton Rush, British billionaire explorer Hamish Harding, renowned French diver Paul-Henri Nargeolet and Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his 19-year-old son Suleman set off on a trip of a lifetime on Sunday morning (18 June), traveling around 13,000 feet below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean to visit the famed ocean liner’s wreckage.

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