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Boston Ma, OceanGate said in a statement Thursday that all five passengers of its submersible that went missing Sunday during a visit to the 1912 wreck of the Titanic are believed to be dead.
“We now believe that our CEO Stockton Rush, Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman Dawood, Hamish Harding, and Paul-Henri Nargeolet, have sadly been lost,” OceanGate said in a statement Thursday.
The U.S. Coast Guard said in a Twitter post earlier on Thursday that a remotely operated vehicle discovered a debris field within the search area for the Titan submersible. At a press conference later in the afternoon, the Coast Guard confirmed that the debris was “consistent with catastrophic loss of the pressure chamber.”
“Upon this determination, we immediately notified the families,” Rear Admiral John Mauger, the First Coast Guard District commander, said at the press briefing. “On behalf of the United States Coast Guard and the entire unified command, I offer my deepest condolences to the families. I can only imagine what this has been like for them.”
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