![]() Coast Guard said during a press conference Thursday he did not know whether the Coast Guard would be able to recover the bodies. Our hearts are with these five souls and every member of their families during this tragic time," OceanGate said in a statement Thursday. "These men were true explorers who shared a distinct spirit of adventure, and a deep passion for exploring and protecting the world’s oceans. The Coast Guard said families of the men had been notified of their deaths. Each paid $250,000 to ride on the submersible. The passengers were well known for their devotion to extreme exploration, desire to collect artifacts from the Titanic or their exorbitant wealth. Coast Guard also announced Thursday that rescue teams had found debris from the ship on the ocean floor “consistent with catastrophic loss of the pressure chamber.” ![]() ![]() OceanGate, the company that hosted the mission on the Titan submersible to the Titanic, said Thursday that the entire crew – including its founder and CEO who was the pilot in the mission – were “lost at sea.” The U.S. Watch Video: Search for five in missing Titanic submersible comes to an endįive men, including one teenager, have been declared dead days after they left for a voyage in a 22-foot submersible to see the wreckage of the Titanic in the North Atlantic Ocean. ![]()
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