The debris discovered earlier today is understood to belong to the missing Titan submersible, with the pilot and four passengers onboard the vessel believed to be dead.
OceanGate Expeditions, the company behind the voyage, confirmed that the Titan submersible's pilot and chief executive Stockton Rush – along with UK citizens Hamish Harding, Shahzada Dawood and his 19-year-old son Suleman Dawood and French national Paul-Henri Nargeolet "have sadly been lost."
The tragic update comes just hours after the US Coast Guard confirmed the discovery of a 'debris field' near the wreckage of the Titanic following the deployment of a multi-national search operation.