The ocean, Paschall said, was his step-father’s “home away from home”. There are so many ways I was just blown away by his love and care for me. Paschall remembered his Nargeolet as a “really great step-father to me” with a big heart, a great sense of humour and a love of pranks.
And I hope no one ever has to go through it again. We can speak about PH but it has been truly is a nightmare of an experience. Speaking to MSNBC, Paschall said he and other families have been shocked by the news of the fate of the Titan. John Nathanial Paschall, stepson of famed French explorer Paul-Henri Nargeolet says he “thought nothing of it” in the lead up to the trip owing to his step-father’s past experience visiting the wreck of the Titanic.
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The White House said the loved ones of the five men had endured a “harrowing ordeal” over the past week.įor more on the reactions to this grim tragedy, read the full report by Guardian International’s site editor Graham Russell. The Titan, operated by the US-based company OceanGate Expeditions, had been missing since it lost contact with its surface support ship on Sunday morning about an hour and 45 minutes into what should have been a two-hour dive to the world’s most famous shipwreck. “The debris field here is consistent with a catastrophic implosion of the vehicle,” Rear Admiral John Mauger of the US coast guard said. 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 1,600 feet (488 metres) from the bow of the Titanic.įive major fragments of the 22-foot (6.7-metre) Titan were located in the debris field left from its disintegration, including the vessel’s tail cone and two sections of the pressure hull, Coast Guard officials said. Tributes have poured in for 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. Though some robots will remain on site to continue to collect evidence, the US Coast Guard has begun “demobilising personnel”
He says friends heard the bang that was later detected by the US navy. The US Coast Guard will continue to investigate the site of the debris field, while vessels and personnel will be demobilised over the next 24 hours.įilm director James Cameron says he had concerns about the construction of the submersible but trusted the issues had been addressed by others. Officials could not confirm whether they will be able to recover the bodies of the crew members. The families of Dawood said they were overwhelmed by the support they have received Nargeoloet’s son remembered him as a larger than life figure and an aviation company operated by Harding’s family described him as a “larger than life figure”. The friends and family of those killed have thanked those engaged in the search and paid respect to their loved ones. The navy passed this information onto the Coast Guard which continued the search because it did not consider the information to be “definitive”.īanging noises heard earlier in the week have been attributed to other vessels operating in the area. The US Navy says it recorded a sound “consistent with an implosion” just after the Titan was reported to have lost communications with its support ship on Monday. Those aboard the submersible were British adventurer Hamish Harding, 58 French veteran Titanic explorer Paul Henri Nargeoloet, 77 British-Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood, 48, and his 19-year-old son Suleman and 61-year-old American Stockton Rush, co-founder of OceanGate, the company that operated the lost sub. It is too early to tell exactly when the implosion occurred, officials said, noting that nothing was detected on sonar buoys deployed in the ocean in recent days.
The debris was “consistent with the catastrophic loss of the pressure chamber”, they said. Five crew members aboard the submersible Titan were probably killed instantly in a “catastrophic implosion” as it descended to the wreck of the Titanic two miles below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean, US Coast Guard officials said.Ī large debris field containing five major pieces of the vessel were spotted by a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) scouring the seabed near the Titanic wreck site 400 miles south of St John’s, Newfoundland, officials said.
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