According to <a href="https://tass.ru/politika/20348589" target="_blank" rel="noopener">TASS,</a> the Russian state-owned news agency, Russia is objecting to what it calls the United States’ &#8220;illegal attempts to unilaterally change the external boundaries of the continental shelf&#8221; in regions of the oceans around the world.
In advance of the council of the International Seabed Authority meetings between March 18 and March 29, the Russian Foreign Ministry issued a statement accusing the U.S. of moving its boundaries.
“During the session, the Russian delegation announced its non-recognition of the outer boundaries of the continental shelf declared unilaterally by the United States in December 2023 beyond 200 nautical miles from the baselines from which the width of the territorial sea is measured in seven regions of the World Ocean,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said. “Earlier, the American side was sent a corresponding demarche via a bilateral line.”
But it was Russia that claimed in December it wanted an extended continental shelf in the Arctic Ocean. During the 13th International Arctic Forum, Russian Navy chief Admiral Nikolai Yevmenov stated, &#8220;There is need for a full-scale expansion into the continental shelf beyond the borders of the 200-mile exclusive economic zone.”
As far back as 2001, Russia asked the U.N. to let them expand the  Arctic Seabed; the UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS) rejected the submission. &#8220;In 2015, Moscow re-submitted an updated claim&#8221; and did so again in March 2021. “In all, Russia’s continental shelf as proposed would encompass almost 70 percent of the Arctic Ocean, overlapping EEZ’s of other Arctic countries such as Denmark and Canada,” The Maritime Executive <a href="https://maritime-executive.com/article/russia-insists-on-an-expanded-boundary-in-the-arctic-ocean" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a>.
The 1982 Law of the Sea Convention issued a legal framework for the use and protection of the sea, stating guidelines with respect to states&#8217; navigational rights, maritime zones and boundaries, and economic jurisdiction. The United States has never ratified the convention. In 2012, when 34 senators opposed ratification, Sen. Rob Portman, (R-OH), <a href="https://www.heritage.org/global-politics/commentary/7-reasons-us-should-not-ratify-un-convention-the-law-the-sea" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-external="yes">stated</a>:
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We simply are not persuaded that decisions by the International Seabed Authority and international tribunals empowered by this treaty will be more favorable to U.S. interests than bilateral negotiations, voluntary arbitration, and other traditional means of resolving maritime issues. No international the seas, and we are confident that our nation will continue to protect its navigational freedom, valid territorial claims, and other maritime rights. On balance, we believe that the treaty’s litigation exposure and impositions on U.S. sovereignty outweigh its potential benefits.
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The Heritage Foundation <a href="https://www.heritage.org/global-politics/commentary/7-reasons-us-should-not-ratify-un-convention-the-law-the-sea" target="_blank" rel="noopener">outlined its opposition</a> to ratification by noting “U.S. membership in the convention would not confer any maritime right or freedom that the U.S. does not already enjoy. &#8230; U.S. accession would penalize U.S. companies by subjecting them to the whims of an unelected and unaccountable bureaucracy and would force them to pay excessive fees to the International Seabed Authority for redistribution to developing countries. &#8230; it will be required to transfer a large portion of royalties generated on the U.S. extended continental shelf to the International Seabed Authority, and, through the authority, to corrupt and undemocratic nations. &#8230; it will be exposed to climate change lawsuits and other environmental actions brought against it by other members of the convention.&#8221;
Former President Barack Obama wanted the U.S. to join the convention, <a href="https://www.noaa.gov/law-of-sea-convention#:~:text=The%201982%20Law%20of%20the,both%20natural%20and%20cultural%20resources." target="_blank" rel="noopener">saying</a> in 2013, “Only by joining the convention can we maximize legal certainty and best secure international recognition of our sovereign rights with respect to the U.S. extended continental shelf in the Arctic and elsewhere.”

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Russia Accuses U.S. Of Illegally Expanding Sea Boundaries. But Russia Has Been Trying To Push Boundaries For Decades.

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RMS Titanic Inc. is looking into claims made by OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush about the safety of his submersible after one of the foundation’s leaders died when the sub imploded last week. 
On June 19, Paul-Henri Nargeolet, the <a href="https://www.discovertitanic.com/about-us/team/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">director</a> of underwater research for RMS Titanic Inc., boarded the 22-foot Titan submersible with four other passengers, including Rush, on a voyage to the depths of the Atlantic Ocean to view the Titanic wreckage. All five aboard the Titan likely died hours after the underwater trip began, and Nargeolet’s foundation is seeking answers.
“We have now our own internal questions about the representations [OceanGate] made that we made the basis on giving PH the OK to go,” Jessica Sanders, the president of RMS Titanic Inc., <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/06/30/rms-titanic-inc-probing-if-cavalier-stockton-rush-misled-them-to-get-ph-nargeolet-aboard-doomed-sub/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> The New York Post. “We’re going back and looking at that now ourselves internally, because there were representations not only made to us, but made to the court, that now we have to go back and verify because of these stories that are coming up that question them.”
Rush reportedly told passengers that the Titan was “way safer than flying in a helicopter or even scuba diving,” but <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/red-flags-surrounded-the-missing-titanic-sub-years-before-disappearance" target="_blank" rel="noopener">red flags surrounded the submersible</a> years before the disaster. Those wishing to squeeze into the submersible roughly the size of a minivan had to sign waivers accepting the possibility of injury or death, and before Titan’s latest trek, OceanGate faced multiple warnings from people inside and outside the company, as well as a lawsuit from an employee flagging what he saw as massive safety issues.
Rush proudly used off-the-shelf items and “<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/06/23/titanic-submersible-ceo-carbon-fiber-rush/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">discounted</a>” parts when he built the Titan and steered the vessel with a <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/06/23/logitechs-stock-hit-titanic-subs-video-game-controller/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">game controller</a>. The OceanGate CEO also once <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/boss-of-titanic-sub-company-didnt-want-50-year-old-white-guys-on-his-team" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> he didn’t want to hire “50-year-old white guys” on his team even if they were seasoned submariners.
Sanders said Nargeolet joined the OceanGate expedition as a guest, and not for research purposes, according to the Post. Nargeolet approached the foundation, asking for approval to join OceanGate’s voyage to the Titanic, and after careful consideration, RMS Titanic Inc. said yes. The 77-year-old Frenchman was one the first people to visit the Titanic wreckage in 1987, and he went on to re-visit the Titanic wreckage roughly 35 times. 
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“If you didn’t get a chance to meet PH, it really is your loss,” Sanders said. “You ever meet somebody that always has a really great story that’s always semi-unbelievable? … That was who he was.”
Those aboard the Titan likely died “in milliseconds,” according to experts who spoke after pieces of the vessel were discovered. Rush and Nargeolet were joined by billionaire explorer Hamish Harding and British businessman Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman.

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Titanic Foundation Probing Claims OceanGate CEO Made About Vessel’s Safety Before Director Joined Doomed Voyage

Titanic Foundation Probing Claims OceanGate CEO Made About Vessel's Safety Before Director Joined Doomed Voyage

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U.S. officials announced Wednesday afternoon that they had recovered &#8220;presumed human remains&#8221; from the wreckage at the bottom of the ocean floor where <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/titanic" target="_blank" rel="noopener">OceanGate&#8217;s Titan submersible</a> imploded under extreme pressure.
The Coast Guard <a href="https://www.news.uscg.mil/Press-Releases/Article/3443110/us-coast-guard-recovers-evidence-from-titan-submersible/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that the remains were &#8220;carefully recovered within the wreckage at the site of the incident&#8221; and that officials were working to &#8220;transport the evidence aboard a U.S. Coast Guard cutter to a port in the United States where the MBI will be able to facilitate further analysis and testing.&#8221;
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The U.S. Coast Guard has just Confirmed that “Presumed Human Remains” have been Discovered inside of the TITAN Submersible Vehicle which was recently Recovered by the Canadian Ship, “AHTS Horizon Arctic” near the Wreck of the Titanic, which the Submersible was attempting to… <a href="https://t.co/WDq0pYVpcH">pic.twitter.com/WDq0pYVpcH</a>
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Marine Board of Investigation (MBI) Chair Captain Jason Neubauer said that the evidence that was recovered will be useful to investigators as they seek to piece together what happened.
“I am grateful for the coordinated international and interagency support to recover and preserve this vital evidence at extreme offshore distances and depths,” said Neubauer. “The evidence will provide investigators from several international jurisdictions with critical insights into the cause of this tragedy. There is still a substantial amount of work to be done to understand the factors that led to the catastrophic loss of the TITAN and help ensure a similar tragedy does not occur again.”
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Photos and a video showed crews moving at least three large pieces of the OceanGate submersible off the Horizon Arctic ship in St. Johns, Newfoundland. The largest piece pulled from the depths of the Atlantic Ocean appeared to be full of mechanical parts and wires, while two other pieces looked similar to the sub’s external cover and landing frame.
Search crews found parts of the Titan’s wreckage at the bottom of the ocean last Thursday, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/oceangate-on-search-for-titan-sub-5-people-on-board-have-sadly-been-lost" data-reader-unique-id="32">confirming</a> that all five passengers aboard the vessel “had sadly been lost.” The debris field was discovered by a remote-operated vehicle (ROV) deployed by the Horizon Arctic. 
Rear Admiral John Mauger said that the debris discovered was “the tail cone of the Titan submersible approximately 1,600 feet from the bow of the Titanic on the sea floor.” Additional debris was found, and Mauger said it was “consistent with the catastrophic loss of the pressure chamber.” He said that upon the discovery, officials immediately notified the families that their loved ones were deceased.
“The U.S. Navy conducted an analysis of acoustic data and detected an anomaly consistent with an implosion or explosion in the general vicinity of where the Titan submersible was operating when communications were lost,” a senior U.S. Navy official told The Wall Street Journal in a statement. “While not definitive, this information was immediately shared with the Incident Commander to assist with the ongoing search and rescue mission.”
Zach Jewell contributed to this report. 
This is breaking news story; refresh the page for updates.

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‘Presumed Human Remains’ Recovered From Titan Submersible: U.S. Officials

'Presumed Human Remains' Recovered From Titan Submersible: U.S. Officials

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Parts of the doomed Titan submersible that imploded during its voyage to the Titanic wreckage were pulled to shore in Canada Wednesday.
Photos and a video showed crews moving at least three large pieces of the OceanGate submersible off the Horizon Arctic ship in St. Johns, Newfoundland. The largest piece pulled from the depths of the Atlantic Ocean appeared to be full of mechanical parts and wires, while two other pieces looked similar to the sub’s external cover and landing frame, The Daily Mail <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12243189/Mangled-debris-Titan-sub-hauled-ashore-Canada.html">reported</a>. 
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⚡️The first footage of the wreckage of the sunken submersible&quot;Titan&quot;, raised from the depths of the Atlantic <a href="https://t.co/cENHjP23Jp">pic.twitter.com/cENHjP23Jp</a>
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Search crews found parts of the Titan’s wreckage at the bottom of the ocean last Thursday, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/oceangate-on-search-for-titan-sub-5-people-on-board-have-sadly-been-lost">confirming</a> that all five passengers aboard the vessel “had sadly been lost.” The debris field was discovered by a remote-operated vehicle (ROV) deployed by the Horizon Arctic. 
Rear Admiral John Mauger said that the debris discovered was “the tail cone of the Titan submersible approximately 1,600 feet from the bow of the Titanic on the sea floor.” Additional debris was found, and Mauger said it was “consistent with the catastrophic loss of the pressure chamber.” He said that upon the discovery, officials immediately notified the families that their loved ones were deceased.
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Officials believe it’s likely the submersible imploded hours after its voyage began, and a top-secret U.S. Navy system <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/top-secret-u-s-navy-system-detected-titan-sub-implosion-days-ago">detected an implosion</a> a short time after learning that the sub lost communication with its mothership, according to The Wall Street Journal.
“The U.S. Navy conducted an analysis of acoustic data and detected an anomaly consistent with an implosion or explosion in the general vicinity of where the Titan submersible was operating when communications were lost,” a senior U.S. Navy official told The Wall Street Journal in a statement. “While not definitive, this information was immediately shared with the Incident Commander to assist with the ongoing search and rescue mission.”
Those aboard the Titan likely died “in milliseconds,” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/passengers-aboard-dismantled-titanic-sub-likely-died-in-milliseconds" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to experts who spoke after pieces of the vessel were discovered. 
OceanGate CEO and founder Stockton Rush was piloting the submersible and was joined by billionaire explorer Hamish Harding, British businessman Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman, and Paul-Henri Nargeolet, an esteemed French maritime expert with decades of experience diving into the Titanic wreckage.

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First Images Of Titan Sub Wreckage Emerge After Pieces Of Vessel Pulled From Ocean Floor

Wreckage From Titan Submersible Pulled To Shore

The aunt of Suleman Dawood, the youngest passenger aboard the Titanic-bound submarine that officials believe <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/passengers-aboard-dismantled-titanic-sub-likely-died-in-milliseconds" target="_blank" rel="noopener">imploded</a> on Sunday, said that he decided to join the voyage because he hoped to bond with his father over the trip. 
Azmeh Dawood, the aunt of 19-year-old Suleman, <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/titanic-submersible-shahwood-suleman-family-tragedy-rcna90678" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> NBC News that her nephew had been “terrified” about the trip but decided to join her brother, Shahzada Dawood, on the expedition to spend time with him over the Father’s Day weekend. 
&#8220;I am thinking of Suleman, who is 19, in there, just perhaps gasping for breath &#8230; It&#8217;s been crippling, to be honest,&#8221; Azmeh told NBC, adding that she was still in “disbelief” about the whole situation. 
&#8220;I feel like I&#8217;ve been caught in a really bad film, with a countdown, but you didn&#8217;t know what you&#8217;re counting down to,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I personally have found it kind of difficult to breathe thinking of them.&#8221;
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Suleman Dawood was ‘terrified’ of Titan trip but wanted to please his Titanic-obsessed dad, aunt says <a href="https://t.co/tjTvMoHB12">https://t.co/tjTvMoHB12</a> <a href="https://t.co/DLtovzyLTc">pic.twitter.com/DLtovzyLTc</a>
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&#8220;He was my baby brother,&#8221; Azmeh said of Shahzada. &#8220;I held him up when he was born.&#8221;
Other victims onboard the sub included billionaire Hamish Harding, French maritime expert Paul-Henri Nargeolet, and OceanGate CEO and founder Stockton Rush. 
According to Azmeh, her younger brother had long been fascinated by the story of the Titanic and repeatedly watched the 1958 Titanic drama “A Night to Remember,&#8221; growing up. The Titanic sank in 1912 and lies some 12,500 feet below the surface, and about 400 miles off the coast of Newfoundland in the Atlantic Ocean. 
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Hussain and Kulsum Dawood, the parents of Shahzada and Azmeh, asked for continued prayers for those lost in the sub. 
“The immense love and support we receive continues to help us endure this unimaginable loss,&#8221; they said. 
After several days of searching, the Coast Guard confirmed on Thursday that they found debris from the sub which had gone missing on Sunday. 
Coast Guard Rear Admiral John Mauger said in a news conference that a remote-operated vehicle (ROV) searching the seabed for the missing submersible found the rear cover of the Titan around 1,600 feet from the Titanic’s bow
 The parts of the submersible found by the Coast Guard led them to rule that the debris discovered is consistent with “the catastrophic loss of the pressure chamber,” meaning all five aboard the Titan likely died from a massive amount of underwater pressure that killed them instantly.
Mauger added that it would be difficult to locate the bodies because the debris showed that it imploded due to the intense pressure
Zach Jewell contributed to this report.

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After the U.S. Coast Guard confirmed that the five passengers aboard the Titan died after the vessel imploded earlier this week, questions remain about the timeline of the implosion and the “banging” noises rescue teams heard days after the search operation began.
The Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-navy-detected-titan-sub-implosion-days-ago-6844cb12?mod=wknd_pos1">reported</a> Thursday that the U.S. Navy <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/top-secret-u-s-navy-system-detected-titan-sub-implosion-days-ago">immediately began listening</a> for the Titan once it learned that it had gone dark and detected an implosion a short time later, which means the submersible likely imploded on Sunday. But on Tuesday and Wednesday, a Canadian airplane detected “banging” noises in 30-minute intervals in the area near the Titanic wreckage, causing people to speculate that those aboard the Titan were alive and signaling for help. 
So what were the underwater noises picked up by search teams days after officials said they heard the Titan’s implosion? Experts have some theories.
<h2>Search Equipment</h2>
The area surrounding the Titanic wreck was being searched by multiple ships, sonobuoys, and remote operated vehicles (ROVs) when the underwater noises were picked up. Experts began analyzing the recordings immediately after sounds were detected by sonobuoys that had been deployed by search aircraft. From the beginning, authorities said they were unsure of what was causing the banging, but according to some experts, it wouldn’t take them long to determine if the sounds came from humans, machines, or animals. 
“I think it would be pretty straightforward to determine whether something is an Earth signal or a biological signal or a machine signal,” said Dr. Simone Baumann-Pickering, an acoustic ecologist at the University of California San Diego, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/21/us/underwater-noise-search-submersible.html">according</a> to The New York Times. 
Matthew Schanck, the founder of maritime search and rescue organization Marsar International, <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12226303/What-banging-sound-heard-Titan-rescue-bid.html">told</a> The Daily Mail that the noises could have come from multiple sources, but he said there is a high probability they were caused by search vessels. 
“Our understanding is the noise could have a number of sources,” he said. “The subsurface of the ocean is a noisy environment. But given the high density of vessels in the area operating their propulsion systems and heavy machinery/equipment in the area, this may have been picked up by sonobuoys.”
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<h2>Titanic Wreckage</h2>
As the search continued earlier this week, Jeff Karson, professor of earth and environmental sciences at Syracuse University, warned that focusing on the banging sounds as evidence that the five passengers could still be alive was “wishful thinking.” Karson said that the sound likely just came from junk in the ocean and possibly Titanic wreckage, which is <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/titanic-decaying-expedition/">constantly decaying </a>and falling to the ocean floor. 
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The professor also explained that sounds coming from the ocean, especially from an area near a shipwreck, could be complicated by echoes. 
“One possibility is that the sounds [are] bouncing around the debris. And so it&#8217;s a more complicated echo. It&#8217;s just not bouncing off of one thing. It&#8217;s bouncing off a bunch of things. And it&#8217;s like, you know, dropping up a marble into a tin can. It&#8217;s rattling around and that would confuse the location,” Karson <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12220611/Sonar-expert-says-banging-heard-sub-search-site-debris-falling-decaying-wreck.html">said</a>.
“Is it really banging or just some unidentified sound? I think that is a more accurate description right now,” he added. “There&#8217;s no telling where the sound is coming from or how far away it is.”
Dr. Jamie Pringle, reader in Forensic Geosciences at Keele University, was skeptical that the noises picked up by the sonobuoys came from the Titanic, however. 
“Noise from the Titanic wreck at that water depth would also be unlikely to travel to the surface,” he said. 
<h2>Marine Life</h2>
Another possibility is that the underwater noises picked up came from the variety of sea creatures living in the Atlantic, such as whales. 
Dolphins usually make high-frequency sounds like whistles that are used for echolocation, but whales can make noises that are lower frequency. While the recordings picked up what sounds like something clanking against metal in 30-minute intervals, pointing to a man-made source, Carl Hartsfield, a laboratory director at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/21/us/underwater-noise-search-submersible.html">said</a> it’s a little more complicated than that. 
“From my experience with acoustics, there are sounds by biologics that sound man-made to the untrained ear,” he said. “But I can assure you that the people listening to these tapes are trained.”
The U.S. Coast Guard is still investigating the circumstances surrounding the Titan implosion as questions are likely to swirl for weeks. 
&#8220;This was an incredibly complex case and we&#8217;re still working to develop details for the timeline involved with this casualty and the response,” Coast Guard Rear Adm. John Mauger <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/probe-seeks-answers-titanic-sub-catastrophic-implosion/story?id=100316037">said</a>. 
Two ROVs, one from France and one from Canada, will continue mapping debris fields at the site of the disaster. The admiral said the Coast Guard, along with the French and Canadian governments, will continue to seek answers on &#8220;how, why, and when this happened.&#8221;
OceanGate CEO and founder Stockton Rush was piloting the submersible and was joined by billionaire explorer Hamish Harding, British businessman Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman, and Paul-Henri Nargeolet, an esteemed French maritime expert with decades of experience diving to the Titanic wreckage.

Titan Submersible Search

U.S. Navy Detected Titan Implosion Hours After Voyage Began, So What Were Those ‘Banging’ Noises Heard By Rescue Teams?

U.S. Navy Detected Titan Implosion Hours After Voyage Began, So What Were Those 'Banging' Noises Heard By Rescue Teams?

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Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/dan-crenshaw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dan Crenshaw</a> (R-TX) slammed the U.S. government in a Thursday interview for its &#8220;epic failure of leadership&#8221; in its effort to find OceanGates&#8217; missing Titan submersible.
The remarks come after U.S. officials announced earlier in the day that the vessel had imploded, killing all five people on board.
The Wall Street Journal later <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-navy-detected-titan-sub-implosion-days-ago-6844cb12?mod=hp_trending_now_article_pos3">reported</a> that the U.S. Navy had detected the moment that the vessel imploded earlier this week using &#8220;a top secret military acoustic detection system designed to spot enemy submarines.&#8221;
Crenshaw told reporters on the Capitol steps that this was a case of &#8220;epic failure in leadership,&#8221; although he was not sure whether the lapse was the fault of the White House, the Navy, or the U.S. Coast Guard.
Crenshaw, a former Navy SEAL, said that the critical failure in leadership was the fact that the U.S. assets – a 6K ROV and a Magellan submarine – were not deployed sooner to join rescue efforts.
“Now, it’s important to note that if you had just deployed those assets, they would have arrived on scene by Wednesday morning at the latest,” Crenshaw said. “That tapping continues to be heard and chatted about in all these channels throughout Wednesday. Then it stops late Wednesday. They finally deploy this 6K ROV, the only thing capable of actually going to that depth and seeing what’s down there, this morning. It deploys down there and the wreckage was exactly where they thought it would be. So where’s the failure here? The failure here is to not put all your options on the table.&#8221;
Crenshaw said that industry experts told him that the implosion sound the Navy heard could have &#8220;easily been the sub just hitting the floor.&#8221;
&#8220;And then you add that with this tapping, which was apparently like your standard procedure SOS, every half hour, you are hearing that throughout the day Tuesday and Wednesday, it begs the question — could this have been resolved differently if leadership had just acted sooner and actually put options on the table instead of just assuming? Well, it doesn’t matter because they’re dead,&#8221; he added.
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Dan Crenshaw Blasts ‘Epic Failure Of Leadership’ In U.S. Government’s Response To Titan Sub

Dan Crenshaw Blasts 'Epic Failure Of Leadership' In U.S. Government's Response To Titan Sub

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/james-cameron" target="_blank" rel="noopener">James Cameron</a>, the Oscar-winning director of “Titanic,” said on Thursday that the OceanGates&#8217; Titan submersible that imploded underwater did so because it was not constructed out of the proper materials.
Cameron, who is considered an expert at diving and submersibles, made the remarks during interviews with ABC News and <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/22/science/james-cameron-titanic-submersible.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Times</a> after officials announced that they had located the debris of the vessel on the ocean floor and the five passengers on board had all died.
&#8220;I&#8217;ve been down there many times. I know the [Titanic] wreck site very well,&#8221; Cameron said. &#8220;I&#8217;ve made 33 dives, and I actually calculated that I spent more time on the ship than the captain did back in the day.&#8221;
&#8220;As a submersible designer myself, I designed and built a sub to go to the deepest place in the ocean – three times deeper than Titanic,&#8221; he said. &#8220;So, I understand the engineering problems associated with building this type of vehicle and all the safety protocols that you have to go through.&#8221;
Cameron said that there have never been any fatalities in this type of underwater exploration in the past and that the Titan imploded because it was made out of carbon fiber, which is stronger and lighter than steel or aluminum but has &#8220;no strength in compression.&#8221;
Cameron said that the implosion, when an object collapses inward, would have been “an extremely violent event — like 10 cases of dynamite going off.”
Cameron said that deep submergence is a &#8220;mature art&#8221; and that all submersibles &#8220;except this one&#8221; undergo certification protocols to make sure the vessels are safe for passengers.
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&#8220;This is a mature art, and many people in the community were very concerned about this sub. And a number of the top players in the deep submergence engineering community even wrote letters to the company, saying that what they were doing was too experimental to carry passengers, and that it needed to be certified,&#8221; he said. &#8220;So, I&#8217;m struck by the similarity of the Titanic disaster itself, where the captain was repeatedly warned about ice ahead of his ship, and yet he steamed at full speed into an ice field on a moonless night and many people died as a result.&#8221;
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‘Titanic’ director James Cameron on the ‘catastrophic implosion’ of Titan submersible: “I’m struck by the similarity of the Titanic disaster itself, where the captain was repeatedly warned about ice ahead of his ship and yet he steamed at full speed into an ice field.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/vO8JkCXS5f">pic.twitter.com/vO8JkCXS5f</a>
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‘Titanic’ Director And Diving Expert James Cameron Explains Why The Titan Sub Imploded Underwater

The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/u-s-navy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">U.S. Navy</a> detected the moment when the Titan submersible imploded earlier this week after it lost communications with its host ship.
The Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-navy-detected-titan-sub-implosion-days-ago-6844cb12?mod=wknd_pos1">reported</a> that the Navy immediately began listening for the Titan once it learned that it had gone dark.
The Navy detected an implosion a short time later near where officials later discovered debris on the ocean floor, about 1,600 feet from the bow of the Titanic.
“The U.S. Navy conducted an analysis of acoustic data and detected an anomaly consistent with an implosion or explosion in the general vicinity of where the Titan submersible was operating when communications were lost,” a senior U.S. Navy official told The Wall Street Journal in a statement. “While not definitive, this information was immediately shared with the Incident Commander to assist with the ongoing search and rescue mission.”
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OceanGate, the company operating the Titan, announced Thursday afternoon that all five people on board the vessel had died.
“We now believe that our CEO Stockton Rush, Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman Dawood, Hamish Harding, and Paul-Henri Nargeolet, have sadly been lost,” the statement said.
Rear Admiral John Mauger said that the debris that was found was “consistent with the catastrophic loss of the pressure chamber.”
When asked about recovering the bodies from the submersible, Mauger suggested that it would be difficult to locate the bodies because the debris showed that it imploded due to the intense pressures near the bottom of the ocean.
Mauger suggested that the submersible could have imploded around the time that the ship lost contact with it because rescuers have not detected any catastrophic implosions in the water over the last 72+ hours with the sonar buoys that were deployed to find the vessel.
Marine scientist and rescue expert David Mearns said that due to the extreme amount of pressure that was present at that depth, those on board would have been killed instantly.
“The only saving grace is that it would have been immediate — literally in milliseconds — and the men wouldn’t have known what was happening,” he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/passengers-aboard-dismantled-titanic-sub-likely-died-in-milliseconds">said</a>.

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Death came in &#8220;milliseconds&#8221; for the five people aboard the doomed Titan submersible, according to experts who spoke after pieces of the vessel that carried its passengers into the depths of the Atlantic to view the Titanic were discovered on the ocean floor.
A remote-operated vehicle (ROV) searching the seabed for the missing submersible found the rear cover of the Titan around 1,600 feet from the Titanic’s bow, Coast Guard Rear Admiral John Mauger said in a news conference. The ROV found more pieces of the submersible, leading authorities to rule that the debris discovered is consistent with “the catastrophic loss of the pressure chamber,” meaning all five aboard the Titan likely died from a massive amount of underwater pressure that killed them instantly.
&#8220;A debris field implies a break-up of the submersible &#8230; that really sort of indicates what is the worst-case scenario, which is a catastrophic failure and generally that&#8217;s an implosion,” marine scientist and rescue expert David Mearns <a href="https://news.sky.com/story/debris-field-discovered-within-search-area-near-titanic-us-coast-guard-says-12906735">told</a> Sky News.
&#8220;The only saving grace is that it would have been immediate — literally in milliseconds — and the men wouldn&#8217;t have known what was happening,&#8221; Mearns added.
The iconic ship, which sank in 1912, lies some 12,500 feet below the surface, and about 400 miles off the coast of Newfoundland.
The Coast Guard admiral <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/oceangate-on-search-for-titan-sub-5-people-on-board-have-sadly-been-lost" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> at the news conference that it would be difficult to locate the bodies because the debris showed that it imploded due to the intense pressure. Mauger added that it was still too early to tell when exactly the vessel imploded, and they will continue conducting remote operations on the sea floor.
“I know there’s a lot of questions about how, why, when this happened,” Mauger <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/06/22/us/titanic-missing-submarine/74344464-7d97-5b86-bc98-88929bf8e3fa?smid=url-share" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “That’s going to be, I’m sure, the focus of future review. Right now, we’re focused on documenting the scene.”
OceanGate CEO and founder Stockton Rush was piloting the submersible and was joined by billionaire explorer Hamish Harding, British businessman Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman, and Paul-Henri Nargeolet, an esteemed French maritime expert with decades of experience diving to the Titanic wreckage.
OceanGate released a statement following the Coast Guard&#8217;s findings, expressing their sorrow for the loss of life.
“We now believe that our CEO Stockton Rush, Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman Dawood, Hamish Harding, and Paul-Henri Nargeolet, have sadly been lost,” the statement said.
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Passengers Aboard Doomed Titanic Sub Likely Died ‘In Milliseconds’

Passengers Aboard Doomed Titanic Sub Likely Died 'In Milliseconds'

OceanGate, the company whose Titan submersible went missing at the start of the week as it traveled to view the wreckage of the Titanic, released a statement Thursday afternoon saying that it believes that five people on board have all died.
&#8220;We now believe that our CEO Stockton Rush, Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman Dawood, Hamish Harding, and Paul-Henri Nargeolet, have sadly been lost,&#8221; the statement said.
The United States Coast Guard announced in a statement earlier in the day that a debris field was discovered near the Titanic.
The discovery was made by a remote-controlled vehicle deployed by the Horizon Arctic, according to The New York Times.
“A debris field was discovered within the search area by an ROV near the Titanic,” USGC Northeast said in a statement. “Experts within the unified command are evaluating the information.”
CNN later <a href="https://www.cnn.com/americas/live-news/titanic-missing-sub-oceangate-06-22-23/index.html">reported</a> that the debris discovered within the search area was &#8220;assessed to be from the external body of the sub.&#8221;
Rear Admiral John Mauger said that the debris that was discovered was “the tail cone of the Titan submersible approximately 1,600 feet from the bow of the Titanic on the sea floor.”
Additional debris was found and Mauger said that it was “consistent with the catastrophic loss of the pressure chamber.”
He said that upon the discovery, officials immediately notified the families that their loved ones were deceased.
When asked about recovering the bodies from the submersible, Mauger suggested that it would be difficult to locate the bodies because the debris showed that it imploded due to the intense pressures near the bottom of the ocean.
Mauger suggested that the submersible could have imploded around the time that the ship lost contact with it because rescuers have not detected any catastrophic implosions in the water over the last 72+ hours with the sonar buoys that were deployed to find the vessel.
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All 5 Aboard Doomed Titanic Sub Have ‘Sadly Been Lost,’ OceanGate Confirms

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The United States Coast Guard announced in a statement on Thursday that a debris field has been discovered near the Titanic in the search for the missing Titan submersible.
The discovery was made by a remote-controlled vehicle deployed by the Horizon Arctic, according to The New York Times.
&#8220;A debris field was discovered within the search area by an ROV near the Titanic,&#8221; USGC Northeast said in a statement. &#8220;Experts within the unified command are evaluating the information.&#8221;
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The oxygen supply on the submersible, which aimed to see the wreckage of the Titanic, was projected to run out early on Thursday, although officials <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/06/22/us/titanic-missing-submarine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that the crew&#8217;s desire to live could prolong the timeline if those inside stayed calm and avoided panicked breathing.
Dr. Simon Boxall, who teaches oceanography at England’s University of Southampton, told NBC News, “There are so many variables. We have no idea how long they will actually last in terms of oxygen — all that we know is that it’s imminent.”
Boxall explained that the passengers on board could start to suffer hypothermia, adding that could mean “they’re using a lot less oxygen,” although that could present other dangers.
Nikolas Xiros, professor of naval architecture and marine engineering at the University of New Orleans, said it was likely the sub had lost power, warning that the temperatures inside could be at the freezing point. “If a lack of oxygen doesn’t get them, what’s going to get them is going to be hypothermia,” he told USA Today.
OceanGate Expeditions, the company responsible for the Titan, reportedly took eight hours to alert the Coast Guard that they had lost contact with the submersible on Sunday. The sub lies roughly 400 miles southeast of St. John’s, Newfoundland.
The sub had been in contact with the mothership, the Polar Prince when it started its dive at 8 a.m. Sunday morning, but lost contact at 9:45 a.m. The Daily Mail reported that the sub wasn’t reported missing to the U.S. Coast Guard until 5:40 p.m., eight hours later, and Canada’s Coast Guard wasn’t alerted until 9:13 p.m. on Sunday night.
Hank Berrien contributed to this report. 
This report has been updated to include additional information.

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