A robot is scouring the seabed for debris from the fatal implosion of the submersible Titan, as US and Canadian authorities turn their attention from search and rescue to investigating what led to the maritime disaster and whether any laws were broken.
The US Coast Guard has convened a Navy Board of Investigation to investigate the implosion – the “highest level of investigation the Coast Guard conducts,” US Coast Guard Chief Investigator Captain Jason Neubauer announced Sunday. ).
The council will work to determine the cause of the catastrophic implosion and deaths, as well as make recommendations “to pursue civil or criminal sanctions as necessary,” Neubauer said.
For now, investigators are prioritizing the recovery of debris from the sea floor. Military experts found wreckage of the ill-fated submersible about 500 meters off the Titanic’s bow on Thursday, the US Coast Guard said.
“My main objective is to prevent a similar occurrence by making the necessary recommendations to enhance maritime domain security around the world,” said Neubauer.
The operation takes place while questions remain about the submersible’s design, the materials used in its construction, what caused the implosion and when exactly the implosion happened.
The Titan was 1 hour and 45 minutes into its descent to the wreckage of the Titanic on the ocean floor last Sunday (18), when it lost contact with its mother ship, starting a multi-national search and rescue operation in the Atlantic. North that ended on Thursday, with the discovery of its wreckage.
The US Coast Guard investigation is one of several currently under way. Canadian authorities, also tasked with investigating the incident, will review voice recordings from the submersible’s mother ship, the Polar Prince, Canadian officials said.
Canadian investigators boarded the Polar Prince on Saturday “to collect information from the vessel’s voyage data recorder and other systems on the vessel that contain useful information,” said Kathy Fox, chair of the Transport Safety Council of Canada, on Saturday. A voyage data recorder stores audio from the ship’s bridge.
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Source: CNN Brasil
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