Suleman Dawood, a 19-year-old university student, and his father Shahzada Dawood, a British-Pakistani businessman, were among five passengers aboard the Titan submersible, believed to have catastrophically imploded Sunday during a deep-water exploration of the Titanic shipwreck. All five passengers are presumed dead. It’s uncertain if authorities will be able to recover their bodies.Shahzada had been
Investigators are turning their attention to finding out how a submersible carrying five people to the Titanic wreckage suddenly imploded. All hopes for a positive outcome vanished Thursday when the U.S. Coast Guard confirmed it found debris belonging to OceanGate Expedition’s Titan near the famous ocean liner at the bottom of the North Atlantic.The submersible’s
The U.S. Coast Guard says a debris field found by searchers near the Titanic on Thursday is wreckage from the missing Titan submersible. An international search effort led by the U.S. Coast Guard that included Canada has been racing against the clock to locate OceanGate Expeditions’ vessel and the crew aboard. It was estimated to
The deaths of two American tourists on vacation in Mexico prompted the luxury seaside resort they were staying in to temporarily suspend operations until an internal investigation can be conducted. “Our top priority is the safety and wellbeing of guests and colleagues and the property will not resume normal operations until our investigation is complete,”
An extensive search-and-rescue has entered its third day trying to locate a submersible that went missing during a dive to the Titanic shipwreck, and time is running out. Rescuers have been racing against the clock because even under the best of circumstances, the vessel, OceanGate Expedition’s Titan, could run out of oxygen as soon as
“Intense worry” is how a former passenger of the missing Titan submersible describes his feelings as he waits with hope that the five people onboard, including two of his friends, will be found safely. Alfred Hagen, president of Hagen Construction and Development and a self-described adventurer from Pennsylvania, spoke with Motorcycle accident toronto today about his connection
Canadian Coast Guard ship John Cabot is in the North Atlantic to help with the missing Titanic submersible search after a Canadian aircraft detected underwater noises Wednesday. A statement from the U.S. Coast Guard did not elaborate on what rescuers believed the noises could be, though it offered a glimmer of hope for those lost
An extensive search and rescue operation continues Tuesday to locate a submersible that went missing during a mission to view the Titanic shipwreck, but many have become concerned with the seemingly improvised construction of the vessel. The expedition off the coast of Newfoundland, hosted by U.S. company OceanGate Expeditions, was reported overdue shortly after 9
Two American tourists were found dead inside their luxury hotel room in a seaside community on Mexico’s Baja California peninsula, police said Wednesday. Police and paramedics arrived at the hotel on Tuesday evening after receiving a report that the Americans were unconscious in their room. Inside, they found a man and a woman with no
Ted Kaczynski, known as the “Unabomber,” who carried out a 17-year bombing campaign that killed three people and injured 23 others, died by suicide, four people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press. Kaczynski, who was 81 and suffering from late-stage cancer, was found unresponsive in his cell at the Federal Medical Center in