The immense love and support we receive continues to help us endure this unimaginable loss."
"We are truly grateful to all those involved in the rescue operations. "Please continue to keep the departed souls and our family in your prayers during this difficult time of mourning," the Hussain and Kulsum Dawood family said Thursday in a statement through the Dawood Foundation. What to know about the 5 passengers on the missing Titanic sub 00:52 Just ahead of the Coast Guard briefing Thursday afternoon, a statement issued by OceanGate spokesperson Andrew Von Kerens offered condolences to the families of the Titan crew and recognized that all five people on board the submersible were believed to be dead. Who were the passengers aboard the sub?ĬBS News confirmed that the five people aboard the submersible were Hamish Harding, a 59-year-old British billionaire, business owner and explorer British-Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his son, Suleman French explorer Paul-Henri Nargeolet, who had made multiple dives over the years to explore the Titanic and Stockton Rush, the CEO of OceanGate Expeditions, who was serving as pilot. The Coast Guard is leading the investigation into the incident, and the National Transportation Safety Board said Friday it will assist. I don't think anybody even had the time to realize what happened." So, this would have happened very quickly. "And it's probably a mercy, because that was probably a kinder end than the unbelievably difficult situation of being four days in a cold, dark and confined space.
"It implodes inwards in a matter of a thousandth of a second," Kohnen said. "in a fraction of a second, it's gone," Will Kohnen, chairman of the professional group the Marine Technology Society Submarine Committee, told the Reuters news agency. Such an implosion, under the intense pressure of the depths of the sea, would have destroyed the vessel almost instantly, experts explained. The information was relayed to the Coast Guard, which used it to narrow the radius of the search area, the official said. Navy official said the Navy had detected "an acoustic anomaly consistent with an implosion" shortly after the sub lost contact with the surface Sunday, CBS News national security correspondent David Martin reported.
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