The Latest Breaking News from John Mauger

OceanGate Expeditions, the company behind the journey, 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"

US Coast Guard confirm catastrophic implosion took place, killing crew; US Navy says it detected an “anomaly” that was likely the Titan’s fatal implosion

The Titan submarine was reported missing to the US Coast Guard on Sunday at 5.40pm, eight hours after the Polar Prince, its launch boat, lost contact with the vessel

A British submariner has also been seconded to the search and rescue team.

The US Coast Guard have announced they found a 'debris field' on the bottom of the ocean near the Titanic wreck and confirmed it was from the missing vessel with all five on board killed

Pictures show the roughshod exterior of OceanGate Expeditions, the company behind the missing Titanic submarine. Odd items can be seen piled up outside the warehouse in Everett, Washington, on the US West Coast

The crew have now likely lost their 96-hour oxygen supply and rescuers have no way of knowing whether they are dead or alive - despite all this, they have not given up yet and still remain hopeful

Rear Admiral John Mauger, from the US Coast Guard, had said the initial attempt to locate the submarine “yielded negative results” after the Canadian P-3 aircraft picked up a "banging" sound on Tuesday

Search and rescue teams continue to search for the OceanGate Expeditions vessel, which has five people on board. The submersible, called Titan, was supposed to reach the bottom of the sea to view the Titanic shipwreck on Sunday, but it lost contact after being submerged.