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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Graham Russell and agencies

‘True explorers’: tributes paid to men killed in ‘catastrophic implosion’ of Titan sub

Paul-Henri Nargeolet, Stockton Rush, Shahzada and Suleman Dawood and Hamish Harding
Clockwise from top left: Paul-Henri Nargeolet, Stockton Rush, Shahzada and Suleman Dawood and Hamish Harding. Composite: Shannon Stapleton/Joel Saget/Jannicke Mikkelsen/Reuters/Getty/Dawood Foundation

Tributes have been paid to the five people who are now believed to have been instantly killed in a “catastrophic implosion” of the Titan submersible during its dive to the Titanic.

On Thursday, after days of aerial and underwater searches, a robotic diving vehicle deployed from a Canadian ship discovered a debris field from the submersible Titan on the seabed 1,600ft (488 metres) from the bow of the Titanic.

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