Missing submersible "Titan" ran out of oxygen (5 photos + 1 video)

However, the US Coast Guard is still searching for a deep-sea vehicle.





The US Coast Guard reported yesterday that the oxygen supply at tourist bathyscaphe "Titan", which disappeared in the area of the wreckage "Titanic" will end on Thursday at 07:08 (14:08 Moscow time). But nonetheless search and rescue operation will continue throughout today days, the department said. Now the search is already going on at the bottom of the ocean, but The device cannot be found.



Someone even created a page on Twitter that measures the remaining air on the Titan every hour.

However, many experts agreed that oxygen the crew was not needed, and the tragedy occurred long before today. It is believed that the bathyscaphe "collapsed" on Sunday - in the first hours after diving.

The first to accept the bitter truth was the director of "Titanic" James Cameron. Yesterday, he sent out condolences to everyone he knew about the members. the crew of the missing bathyscaphe, including an oceanographer Anatoly Sagalevich, who was friends with the Titan pilot Paul-Henri Nargeole.



By the way, journalists have found another connection between "Titan" and "Titanic". It became known that the wife of the founder of OceanGate Expeditions Wendy Rush is the great granddaughter of the richest passengers "Titanic".



Stockton Rush with his wife Wendy and her great-grandparents, Isidor Strauss and Ida Strauss.

According to shipwreck survivors, Ida Strauss refused to board the lifeboat and stayed on the ship with her husband (men, who remembers, were not allowed to leave the ship). Their tragic history director James Cameron showed in his film.

The same fragment from the movie "Titanic".

Recall that on board the missing bathyscaphe were 5 people, three of whom paid for an excursion to the Titanic at 250 one thousand dollars.



The crew members on board.

The founder of the OpenGate company presents the bathyscaphe "Titan".

UPD: two hundred meters from the bow of the Titanic found parts of the body of the bathyscaphe. OpenGate recognized the crew apparatus to the dead.



According to the US Coast Guard, the appearance of the wreckage indicates an explosion directed inside the bathyscaphe.

The crew of the "Titan" was killed due to the implosion of a submarine. Due to the pressure of the water, the bathyscaphe with people literally squeezed like a jar in 487 meters from the wreck of the Titanic.