Five people on a tourist submersible bound for the century-old wreckage of the Titanic were confirmed dead on Thursday after a multinational five-day search ended with the discovery of the vessel's debris from a "catastrophic implosion," the U.S. Coast Guard said. The search had grown increasingly desperate on Thursday, when the submersible's estimated 96-hour air supply had been expected to run out if the Titan was still intact, a countdown that proved irrelevant. "If there was any kind of hull breach, the occupants would succumb to the ocean in a near instant," Roterman added. Questions about Titan's safety were raised in 2018 during a symposium of submersible industry experts and in a lawsuit by OceanGate's former head of marine operations, which was settled later that year. Here is a timeline of the events beginning from the submersible's descent to the discovery of its wreckage.

Source: Forbes June 23, 2023 11:37 UTC