More presumed human remains recovered from imploded submersible: Coast Guard (abcnews.go.com)

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The Coast Guard has recovered remaining debris, including presumed human remains, from a submersible that imploded on its way to explore the wreck of the Titanic, killing all five onboard, deep beneath the Atlantic Ocean's surface, officials said Tuesday.

The Coast Guard said that the recovery and transfer of remaining parts was completed last Wednesday, and a photo showed the intact aft titanium endcap of the 22-foot (6.7-meter) vessel. Additional presumed human remains were carefully recovered from within Titan’s debris and transported for analysis by U.S. medical professionals, the Coast Guard said.

The salvage mission conducted under an agreement with the U.S. Navy was a follow-up to initial recovery operations on the ocean floor roughly 1,600 feet (488 meters) away from the Titanic, the Coast Guard said.

The new materials were offloaded at an unnamed port.

The Coast Guard previously said it recovered presumed human remains along with parts of the Titan after the debris field was located at a depth of 12,500 feet (3,800 meters).

Investigators believe the Titan imploded as it made its descent into deep North Atlantic waters on June 18.

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[-] SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml 57 points 11 months ago

I know the monies come from from different buckets and have wildly different orders of magnitude, but is there some sort of justification in continued recovery of a piece of shit sub full of the seemingly invulnerable ultra-rich that everyone knew was going to implode, versus, say, school lunches? Was there enough money to have paid SAT prep tutors in a handful of inner city schools in Chicago instead of dragging up the remains of one of the stupidest and most entitled public displays of sheer idiocy on the past handful of years?

[-] ThePantser@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago

We have to clean up the trash.

[-] BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago

Pretty sure the sub is beyond the environment

[-] Bathtubwalrus@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

Good, thats where it should be if they designed it for the front to fall off.

[-] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 11 months ago

The ocean floor is still part of the environment

[-] gibmiser@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago

No he means past that

[-] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 months ago

If it's beneath the ocean floor then it's in the ocean floor and part of the environment

If you mean something else then use language that makes sense

[-] gibmiser@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

This should clear things up for you. https://youtu.be/3m5qxZm_JqM?si=AGieN9b5Zg5UfVcy

[-] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 11 months ago

So make the company and families of the rich fucks pay for it rather than the taxpayers

Make them destitute for all we care, whatever the cost is comes out of their pockets

[-] sbv@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago

what if they're biodegradable?

[-] JJROKCZ@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago

They have to have regular training anyway, this way they get training and kinda do something useful. More useful than throwing shit overboard just to retrieve it

[-] Im_the_1_who_sleeps@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago

There is a lot we all can learn from this. The Coast Guard wants to know what happened so they’ll bring in their own people to help investigate. I wouldn’t trust any investigation the company is footing the bill for. Regulations are written in blood. Unfortunately, there are not a lot of regulations with privatized deep diving submarines like the Titan. It’s just not a large industry. As we learn what failed with the sub, both construction and administrative by the crew both in the sub and supporting it from the surface, recommendations for regulations can be developed. Commercial Diving has a lot of regulations they have to follow, but interestingly enough, parasailing doesn’t. These sub expeditions could be the next big industry as materials and technology become more cheaper. I’m not saying it’ll get cheap though. Just more people could access.

[-] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 24 points 11 months ago

I just love the phrasing of this. "Presumed human remains." So evacotive. Like these people were unmade so fucking hard we aren't even sure we found what's left of them.

[-] buran@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

This is typical in forensics. No one cannot make a definitive claim yet until a lab examines everything that’s been recovered. Most likely, that is what’s been found, yes, but confirming it takes time.

It’s also why you may hear a technician say that a sample is “consistent with” something (say, a person) when it is not possible to confirm where it came from.

Until relatively recently, a hair with no root was just about impossible to match to a single person, so that was a common example of that phrasing. Now, in some cases, it’s possible to get DNA from the strand.

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