Photo: OceanGate Expeditions/Xinhua/picture alliance/Deutsche Welle
Canada launched on Saturday (06.24.2023) an investigation into the implosion of the Titan submersible, whose disappearance near the wreckage of the Titanic with five men on board had triggered a multinational search and rescue operation.
“Our mandate is to find out what happened and why.and figure out what needs to be changed to reduce the possibility or risk of such events occurring in the future,” said Transportation Safety Board (TSB) President Kathy Fox.
“We know that everyone wants answers, especially families and the public.“he declared to the press in St. John’s in Newfoundland. The investigation could last between 18 months and two years.
TSB investigators on Saturday boarded the Canadian-flagged freighter Polar Price, which had left St. John’s last weekend to take the Titan to its launch point in the North Atlantic.
The Transportation Safety Board routinely investigates air, rail, shipping, and pipeline accidents in order to improve transportation safety. It does not determine guilt or civil or criminal liability.
The US Coast Guard said Thursday that the five people aboard the submersible were killed after the ship suffered a “catastrophic implosion”.
Wreckage was found on the seabed about 500 meters from the bow of Titanic.
Meanwhile, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) is investigating whether any criminal law was broken in the chain of events that led to the deaths of the adventurers.
Investigators have to determine “whether or not a full investigation by the RCMP is warranted,” Newfoundland and Labrador Province Superintendent Kent Osmond said.
“That investigation will only proceed if our examination indicates that federal or provincial criminal laws may have been violated,” he said.
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