Email Newsletters TribLIVE's Daily and Weekly. The Transportation Safety Board of Canada, which is conducting a safety investigation into the Titan’s Canadian-flagged mother ship, the Polar Prince, said Wednesday that it has sent that vessel’s voyage data recorder to a lab for analysis. Video Obituaries Valley News Dispatch Fire destroys duplex in Tarentum firefighter injured Brian C. “So the question is, is there any data available? And I really don’t know the answer to that question,” he said Monday. “They have been working around the clock now for 10 days, through the physical and mental challenges of this operation,” Mahoney said.Īnalyzing the recovered debris could reveal important clues about what happened to the Titan, and there could be electronic data recorded by the submersible’s instruments, Hartsfield said.

The ROV’s owner, Pelagic Research Services, a company with offices in Massachusetts and New York, is “still on mission” and cannot comment on the investigation, company spokesperson Jeff Mahoney said Wednesday. Representatives for Horizon Arctic did not respond to requests for comment. For extremely big pieces, a heavy lift could be used to pull them up with a tow line, he said. Bigger pieces could be retrieved with a remote-operated vehicle, or ROV, such as the one brought to the wreckage site by the Canadian ship Horizon Arctic to search the ocean floor. “If the pieces are small, you can collect them together and put them in a basket or some kind of collection device,” Hartsfield said Monday. and Canada.Īuthorities have not disclosed details of the debris recovery, which could have followed several approaches, according to Carl Hartsfield, who directs a lab at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution that designs and operates autonomous underwater vehicles and has been serving as a consultant to the Coast Guard. The Coast Guard is leading the investigation, in conjunction with several other government agencies in the U.S. Neubauer said the evidence will provide “critical insights” into the cause of the implosion.ĭebris from the Titan, which is believed to have imploded on June 18 as it made its descent, was located about 12,500 feet (3,810 meters) underwater and roughly 1,600 feet (488 meters) from the Titanic on the ocean floor.

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