


The discovery came as hope of finding survivors faded for another reason: Even an intact sub would run out of breathable air around Thursday morning, experts had warned. On Thursday, a debris field was discovered near the search area for the missing vessel, ending a frantic, expensive and dramatic search that had been ongoing since Sunday. The prospects of finding human remains amid the wreckage are slim. Meanwhile at the ocean floor, deep-sea robots have been searching for clues about what happened leading up to the catastrophic implosion that likely occurred Sunday. The disaster was a "major marine casualty," and a probe will be led by the Coast Guard, NTSB said Friday, and the U.S. authorities also are planning an investigation, the National Transportation Safety Board said. Canadian police also said on Saturday they were looking into the Titan disaster. The vessel, a Canadian-flagged ship that served as Titan's mothership, is the subject of an investigation by the Transportation Safety Board of Canada, officials said. Authorities have already announced investigations into the deadly demise of OceanGate's Titan submersible, probes that come after the five people aboard were declared lost, likely in a violent, deep sea implosion.Īt the surface Saturday, photos showed Canadian investigators in hard hats boarding the Polar Prince after it docked in St.
