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A “debris field” has been discovered within the search area for the missing Titan submersible.
The US Coast Guard (USCG) said a remotely-operated vehicle (ROV) made the discovery near the wreckage of the Titanic on Thursday.
The hunt for the missing deep-sea vessel is still an “active search and rescue” mission after it lost communication on Sunday.
The vessel was about 435 miles south of St John’s, Newfoundland, during a voyage to the Titanic shipwreck off the coast of Canada.
USCG officials said they were “evaluating the information” following Thursday’s debris discovery.
Founding member of the Board of Trustees of The Explorers Club, Hamish Harding, was on board the undersea craft, alongside UK-based businessman Shahzada Dawood, his son Suleman Dawood, and OceanGate’s chief executive and founder Stockton Rush, as well as French submersible pilot Paul-Henri Nargeolet.
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