According to information from the Wall Street Journal, a top-secret observation system would have heard the sound from the area where parts of Titan were found on Thursday.
The search for a miniature submarine that was missing in the Atlantic reached a sad conclusion late Thursday, when both the company that owns the ship, OceanGate Expeditions, and the US Coast Guard said that the people on board the submarine had died. There were five people on board.
The US Coast Guard suspects that the pressurization of the Titan submarine failed. The Wall Street Journal – magazine, according to US defense authority sources, the US Navy believes it has heard of the destruction of a tourist submarine that was missing in the Atlantic.
The top-secret observation system had heard the sound from the area where parts of Titan were found on Thursday. The system had detected the sound several hours after Titan began its dive mission on Sunday. The US Navy believes that the extraordinary sound was created by the destruction of the Titan.
An acoustic detection system that detects sound is designed to detect enemy submarines. According to one US official, the Navy began listening for the Titan after communication with the tourist submersible was lost. The sound was detected shortly after the ship disappeared. According to the defense authorities, the observation was reported to the commander of the coast guard.
– The US Navy conducted an analysis of acoustic data and detected an anomaly near the location of the Titan submarine when communications were lost, the source told the Wall Street Journal. According to him, the deviation was consistent with the body suddenly collapsing or exploding. Although the findings were not conclusive, the information was relayed to the Coast Guard Commander immediately for possible assistance in the search operation.
According to the Coast Guard, it is uncertain whether the bodies of the five people in the submarine will ever be found or whether they will be able to be brought to the surface.
Source: AFP