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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&#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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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'

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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U.S. Coast Guard Finds Debris Field Near Titanic While Searching For Titan Submersible

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A submersible carrying five people that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fears-go-viral-as-titanic-tourist-sub-goes-missing-with-five-possibly-aboard" target="_blank" rel="noopener">went missing during a voyage</a> to the Titanic wreckage likely has less than two days&#8217; worth of oxygen remaining, a Coast Guard official said Tuesday afternoon.
Capt. Jamie Frederick with the Coast Guard&#8217;s 1st District provided the estimate during a press conference on the ongoing international search for the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sealed-in-with-a-game-controller-inside-the-missing-titanic-sub" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wayward vessel</a>.
&#8220;We know there&#8217;s about 40 hours of breathable air left based on that initial report,&#8221; Frederick said.
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The calculation is based on OceanGate Expeditions saying that its van-sized submersible, known as the Titan, has a 96-hour life support system for a crew of five. Such an estimate would have the oxygen running out around 5 a.m. ET on Thursday.
According to the U.S. Coast Guard, the Titan was reported missing after a Canadian research vessel called the Polar Prince lost contact with it about 900 miles off Cape Cod, Massachusetts, roughly an hour and 45 minutes into a dive on Sunday.
The <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/international/4058533-titanic-tourist-submersible-search-coast-guard/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">search operation</a>, which includes multiple aircraft, ships, and sonar buoys, has &#8220;not yielded any results,&#8221; Frederick said on Tuesday. He said the search area is &#8220;larger than the state of Connecticut.&#8221;
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&quot;Search efforts have not yielded any results,&quot; U.S. Coast Guard spokesman says of the tourist sub that disappeared on an expedition to the Titanic wreck.
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OceanGate offers people a chance to visit the Titanic wreckage for $250,000. The company says its Titan submersible weighs 23,000 pounds and can dive nearly 2.5 miles underwater, which is about the depth of the Titanic&#8217;s wreckage on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean about 370 miles off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada.
A 2022 <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/titanic-visiting-the-most-famous-shipwreck-in-the-world/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report by CBS correspondent David Pogue</a> said the Titan&#8217;s hatch is sealed by an external crew with 17 bolts, and that is the only way out. The report also noted that the submersible lacks underwater GPS but rather is guided by text messages from the surface ship.
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The five-person crew that vanished is <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/more-passengers-on-board-missing-titanic-sub-identified" target="_blank" rel="noopener">believed to include</a> billionaire explorer <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/intrepid-explorer-believed-to-be-aboard-missing-titanic-tourist-sub" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hamish Harding</a>, French explorer Paul-Henri Nargeolet, and businessman Shahzada Dawood and his son, Suleman, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/19/us/missing-submarine-titanic-who-is-on.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to The New York Times</a>. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/more-passengers-on-board-missing-titanic-sub-identified" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Mail reports</a> OceanGate founder and CEO Stockton Rush is the fifth person aboard the submersible.
&#8220;Our entire focus is on the crew members in the submersible and their families, we are deeply thankful for the extensive assistance we have received from several government agencies and deep sea companies in our efforts to reestablish contact with the submersible,&#8221; OceanGate said in a statement on Monday.

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Coast Guard Estimates Missing Titanic Sub Has 40 Hours Of Breathable Air Left

A submersible carrying five people that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fears-go-viral-as-titanic-tourist-sub-goes-missing-with-five-possibly-aboard" target="_blank" rel="noopener">went missing during a voyage</a> to the Titanic wreckage in the Atlantic Ocean is a cramped vessel called the Titan that is piloted by a video game controller and sealed by more than a dozen bolts.
U.S. and Canadian officials are searching for the wayward craft, which the U.S. Coast Guard said went missing after a research vessel called the Polar Prince lost contact with it about 900 miles off Cape Cod, Massachusetts, roughly an hour and 45 minutes into a dive on Sunday.
OceanGate Expeditions, which owns the Titan and offers trips to the Titanic wreckage for $250,000, <a href="https://oceangate.com/our-subs/titan-submersible.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">says on its website</a> that the Cyclops-class vessel has a 96-hour life support system for a crew of five. The Titan weighs 23,000 pounds and can reach a depth of nearly 2.5 miles underwater, which is about the depth of the Titanic&#8217;s wreckage on the Atlantic Ocean&#8217;s floor about 370 miles off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada.
Featuring a viewport window on one end, the Titan is roughly the size of a van and can work with smaller, commercially available ships, Oceangate says. It does not require a &#8220;man-rated crane or A-frame&#8221; for launch and recovery.
Oceangate says the Titan has &#8220;pressure vessel material&#8221; made of carbon fiber and titanium. The vessel can move at a speed of up to 3 knots with four electric thrusters. Integrated technology features include sonar equipment, a laser scanner, lights, and cameras. The Titan attaches itself to a launch and recovery platform that can sink by filling tanks with water and return to the surface in two minutes by filling ballast tanks with air.
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In some ways, the vessel boasts state-of-the-art technology. Oceangate says the Titan is the only manned submersible to employ an &#8220;integrated real-time health monitoring system&#8221; to monitor the hull. The system is supposed to provide &#8220;early warning detection&#8221; to the pilot if a problem with the hull is found, allowing time for the ship to make it back to the surface.
OceanGate also said the Titan features &#8220;off-the-shelf technology&#8221; which &#8220;helped to streamline the construction, and makes it simple to operate and replace parts in the field.&#8221;
In a CBS News report last year, OceanGate founder and CEO Stockton Rush showed off an off-brand video game controller that he said &#8220;runs the whole thing and a largely empty interior except for an assortment of screens and some sort of toilet set-up.&#8221;
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Remember my voyage to the Titanic last last summer? In OceanGate’s homemade carbon-fiber sub? (<a href="https://t.co/BqPhXNQbl6">https://t.co/BqPhXNQbl6</a>) They took passengers out again this summer—but as of today, the sub is lost. Coast Guard is doing a search and rescue. <a href="https://t.co/1u3x3Ucjf5">https://t.co/1u3x3Ucjf5</a> <a href="https://t.co/j6z1efTCBH">pic.twitter.com/j6z1efTCBH</a>
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The <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/titanic-visiting-the-most-famous-shipwreck-in-the-world/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report by CBS correspondent David Pogue</a> said the Titan&#8217;s hatch is sealed by an external crew with 17 bolts, and that is the only way out. The report also noted that the submersible lacks underwater GPS but rather is guided by text messages from the surface ship.
<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/oceangate-ceo-last-year-addressed-worry-titan-sub-being-unable-return-surface" target="_blank" rel="noopener">As reported by Fox News</a>, Rush told Pogue in a November episode of the <a href="https://www.stitcher.com/show/unsung-science/episode/back-to-titanic-part-1-209017303" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;Unsung Science&#8221; podcast</a> that he worries most about &#8220;things that will stop me from being able to get to the surface. Overhangs, fish nets, entanglement hazards.&#8221; But in reference to general safety, Pogue said he did not think the underwater voyage was &#8220;very dangerous,&#8221; noting the &#8220;scary part for most people is going down to 6,000 PSI [pounds per square inch].&#8221;
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As of Monday evening, the U.S. Coast Guard said the missing vessel may have as little as 70 hours of oxygen remaining. The five-person crew is <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/more-passengers-on-board-missing-titanic-sub-identified" target="_blank" rel="noopener">believed to include</a> billionaire explorer <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/intrepid-explorer-believed-to-be-aboard-missing-titanic-tourist-sub" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hamish Harding</a>, French explorer Paul-Henry Nargeolet, and British businessman Shahzada Dawood and his son, Suleman, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/19/us/missing-submarine-titanic-who-is-on.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to The New York Times</a>. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/more-passengers-on-board-missing-titanic-sub-identified" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Mail reports</a> Rush himself is the fifth person aboard the submersible.
&#8220;Our entire focus is on the crew members in the submersible and their families, we are deeply thankful for the extensive assistance we have received from several government agencies and deep sea companies in our efforts to reestablish contact with the submersible,&#8221; OceanGate said in a statement on Monday.

Oceangate’s Titan

Sealed In With A Game Controller: Inside The Missing Titanic Sub

All five people on board the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/intrepid-explorer-believed-to-be-aboard-missing-titanic-tourist-sub" target="_blank" rel="noopener">missing Titanic submarine</a> have been identified, and they include a seasoned diver and maritime expert, a father/son duo who are members of one of Pakistan’s wealthiest families, and the CEO of the company in charge of the voyage. 
The 22-foot-long submarine went missing Sunday after losing contact with its mothership while on an expedition to see the wreckage of the Titanic. The U.S. Coast Guard and the Canadian Coast Guard continued searching on Tuesday for the missing submersible, which had 70 to 96 hours of oxygen for the crew of five as of Monday afternoon. 
Hamish Harding, a billionaire chairman of a Dubai-based company, was the first person identified on the submarine. Harding posted to Instagram about the expedition last weekend. 
“Due to the worst winter in Newfoundland in 40 years, this mission is likely to be the first and only manned mission to the Titanic in 2023,” Harding said. “A weather window has just opened up and we are going to attempt a dive tomorrow. We started steaming from St. Johns, Newfoundland, Canada yesterday and are planning to start dive operations around 4am tomorrow morning. Until then we have a lot of preparations and briefings to do.”
Harding was joined by British businessman Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/19/us/missing-submarine-titanic-who-is-on.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to The New York Times. Dawood is the vice chairman of the Engro Corporation, a conglomerate of businesses that began as a fertilizer company in the 1960s. He also sits on the Global Advisory Board for the Prince’s Trust International, which was founded by King Charles, and on the board of trustees for an institute that searches for evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence, The New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/06/20/shahzada-dawood-son-among-missing-titanic-bound-sub/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
The 48-year-old father and his 19-year-old son are part of one of Pakistan’s wealthiest families. 
“We are very grateful for the concern being shown by our colleagues and friends and would like to request everyone to pray for their safety while granting the family privacy at this time,” the Dawood family <a href="https://apnews.com/article/titanic-wreckage-missing-submersible-9f0e66fc1df5d9f1e8d262dc7ce0135e" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> the Associated Press. “The family is well looked after and are praying to Allah for the safe return of their family members.”
Paul-Henri Nargeolet, a French maritime expert, is another passenger, according to his agent. Nargeolet is the director of underwater research for RMS Titanic Inc. and has been on more than 35 dives to the Titanic wreckage. 
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The fifth person aboard the submersible is OceanGate CEO and founder Stockton Rush, <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12212757/Titanic-expedition-firms-CEO-Stockton-Rush-insisted-mission-safe.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to The Daily Mail. Rush founded the company in 2009 and oversees OceanGate’s financial and engineering strategies, the company says on its <a href="https://oceangate.com/about/leadership/stockton-rush.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a>. The CEO said in an interview last year that what worried him the most about a voyage to the Titanic’s resting place “are things that will stop me from being able to get to the surface.”
“Overhangs, fish nets, entanglement hazards. And, that’s just a technique, piloting technique. It’s pretty clear &#8211; if it’s an overhang, don’t go under it. If there is a net, don’t go near it. So, you can avoid those if you are just slow and steady,” Rush added.

Stockton Rush/Hamish Harding/Shahzada Dawood/Paul-Henri Nargeolet

More Passengers On Board Missing Titanic Sub Identified

Canada has suspended the search for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ufo-debris-may-never-be-found-officials-say" target="_blank" rel="noopener">debris from an unidentified flying object</a> (<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ufo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">UFO</a>) shot down over Lake Huron, according to officials.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) <a href="https://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/en/news/2023/lake-huron-search-debris-suspended-search-efforts-continue-yukon" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced the decision</a> in a statement on Thursday.
&#8220;After conducting an extensive search in the Lake Huron area with the assistance of the Canadian Coast Guard and other domestic and international partners, a decision was reached to suspend the search due to several factors including deteriorating weather and the low probability of recovery,&#8221; RCMP said.
A U.S. fighter jet shot down the UFO over Lake Huron, which is located between Michigan and Canada, on Sunday. The UFO was one of three brought down by the U.S. military over North America in the past week over concerns that they endangered civilian aircraft and possibly were conducting surveillance, according to U.S. and Canadian officials. The two other UFOs were blasted out of the sky over Alaska and Canada&#8217;s Yukon territory, following a suspected <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-intel-watched-suspected-spy-balloon-take-off-from-china-reports" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chinese spy balloon flyover</a> earlier this month.
White House national security spokesman John Kirby told reporters on Monday the debris from the UFO shot down over Lake Huron was believed to have landed on the Canadian side of the lake &#8220;in what is probably very deep water.&#8221; He also noted that searches were happening with the help of the U.S. Coast Guard.
The Daily Wire reached out to the U.S. Coast Guard for comment on whether the U.S. continues to search for debris. The Pentagon declined to comment. The weather forecast for locations on the U.S. and Canadian sides of the lake show temperatures below the freezing mark and snow for Thursday.
The search on Lake Huron included the Canadian Coast Guard&#8217;s CCGS Griffon, which carried a drone that would be assisted by helicopters, and the CCGS Samuel Risley icebreaker, equipped with underwater equipment, <a href="https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/what-we-know-about-the-search-for-two-flying-objects-shot-down-over-yukon-and-near-ontario-1.6272475" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to CTV News</a>.
Search-and-recovery operations for debris in the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/canada-deploys-hazardous-materials-experts-in-search-for-downed-ufo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sparsely populated Yukon territory</a>, located in northwest Canada, remain active with the assistance of the Canadian Armed Forces, RCMP said on Thursday.
&#8220;The conditions are extremely challenging with a very large search area, spanning 3,000 square kilometers, and consisting of rugged and mountainous terrain with a high level of snowpack and harsh winter conditions,&#8221; RCMP said. &#8220;We commend our members and partners for their professionalism and dedication.&#8221;
RCMP also said the investigation is &#8220;in its very early stages and will take time.&#8221;
The Pentagon has described the UFO shot down over Lake Huron as appearing to be octagonal with strings attached. Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, revealed on Tuesday that one missile fired by a U.S. fighter jet missed the UFO over Lake Huron and that missile landed <a href="https://www.defense.gov/News/Transcripts/Transcript/Article/3298235/secretary-of-defense-lloyd-j-austin-iii-and-army-gen-mark-a-milley-chairman-joi/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;harmlessly&#8221; in the lake</a>. A <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/unidentified-object-shot-down-lake-huron-missile-missed-general-mark-milley/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">second missile</a> from an F-16 brought down the flying object.
President Joe Biden <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/16/politics/president-biden-downed-objects/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said on Thursday</a> the three downed UFOs do not appear to have been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-claims-that-three-most-recent-downed-aerial-objects-not-linked-to-chinese-spy-program" target="_blank" rel="noopener">linked to any spy programs</a>. “We don’t yet know what these three objects were, but nothing right now suggests that they were related to China’s spy balloon program or that they were surveillance vehicles from any other country,” he said. &#8220;The intelligence community’s current assessment is that these three objects were most likely balloons tied to private companies, recreation or research institutions studying weather or conducting other scientific research.&#8221;

The Coast Guard vessel Griffon

Canada Suspends Lake Huron Search For UFO

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National Security

The man who allegedly left a dead fish at “The Goonies” house then had to be rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard after a yacht he stole capsized has been arrested, according to authorities. 
Law enforcement had reportedly been searching for the suspect since Wednesday when they were alerted to a video apparently <a href="https://www.facebook.com/jericho144000/videos/736561707774307" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> to social media showing 35-year-old Jericho Labonte, a <a href="https://www.kgw.com/article/news/crime/dead-fish-goonies-house-steals-boat-rescued-coast-guard/283-413e4394-2740-4b29-aedb-8dd76e2129d7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Canadian</a>, leaving a fish and dancing at the property in Astoria, Oregon, from the classic 1985 movie. An acquaintance reported the video to police, <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coast-guard-man-arrested-left-dead-fish-at-goonies-house/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to CBS News. On Friday, the Coast Guard received a mayday call and posted a video of a yacht capsizing in rough waters during the successful rescue of Labonte from the mouth of the Columbia River. 
&#8220;I kind of got thrown around a little bit by the wave and then when I came up I noticed that the boat was pretty much in shambles,&#8221; said Petty Officer 1st Class Branch Walton, the rescue swimmer. &#8220;I was actually here for training as a student for the Advanced Helicopter Rescue School. I kind of got called on the case, kind of luck of the draw,&#8221; he added. 
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(2/4)…who launched motor life boats from STA Cape Disappointment, the air crews arrived on scene to find the vessel floundering in the surf! The surf made rescue by boat dangerous, so the aircrew decided to lower the rescue swimmer and have the owner enter the water for rescue… <a href="https://t.co/z92WvzpTG9">pic.twitter.com/z92WvzpTG9</a>
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Two Coast Guard air crews received a mayday call Friday morning during a training mission, according to tweets from the U.S. Coast Guard Pacific Northwest. They launched ships and found the boat “floundering in the surf,” making a boat rescue too dangerous. Instead, the Coast Guard lowered Walton into the water. 
“As he entered the water the vessel capsized but the rescue swimmer was able to safely recover the individual,” the Coast Guard tweeted. “He was flown back to Coast Guard Base Astoria where EMS was waiting to evaluate and treat the man.”
The suspect was then taken to a hospital and treated for mild hypothermia. The Astoria Police Department said in a Facebook post that it had “received calls from several citizens identifying the rescued victim as Labonte,” but he was discharged from the hospital “before his true identity was discovered.” 
Labonte allegedly covered the security cameras at the home and left the dead fish on the porch, then returned later to remove the fish. Police believe it was caught locally, as someone reported taking Labonte fishing on the same day the fish was left on the porch.
The owner of the 35-foot yacht reported it stolen Friday, according to Astoria Police Chief Stacy Kelly, who admitted it had “been a really odd 48 hours.” Labonte was arrested at a warming center in Seaside, Oregon, on charges of <a href="https://lawandcrime.com/crime/yacht-captain-rescued-amid-choppy-seas-is-allegedly-canadian-fugitive-wanted-for-leaving-a-dead-fish-at-the-goonies-house-but-canada-doesnt-want-him-back/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">first-degree theft</a>, unauthorized use of a vehicle, criminal mischief, and endangering another person, according to Fox 12. He is <a href="https://www.kgw.com/article/news/crime/dead-fish-goonies-house-steals-boat-rescued-coast-guard/283-413e4394-2740-4b29-aedb-8dd76e2129d7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> in ICE custody at the Northwest Detention Center in Washington.

U.S. Coast Guard Response Boat Medium (RB-M)

Man Who Left Dead Fish At ‘Goonies’ House Rescued After Stolen Yacht Capsized, Arrested, Police Say

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Oregon

Three men were <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/3-nigerian-stowaways-found-ship-rudder-11-days-sea" target="_blank" rel="noopener">discovered</a> on the rudder of a ship after they stowed away during an 11-day journey across the ocean from Nigeria to the Canary Islands. 
Two of the discovered stowaways were helped and put back on the ship in order to be deported. A local government spokesperson reportedly <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/nigeria-stowaways-who-survived-11-days-ship-rudder-must-return-home-spanish-2022-11-29/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that the third person had hypothermia and dehydration and is still in a hospital on Gran Canaria, one of the islands. A law enforcement spokesperson told Reuters that the law in Spain states that if a stowaway doesn’t seek asylum, they have to be sent back to the original port by whomever runs the ship.
According to the coast guard, the men were saved by a coast guard ship around 7p.m. local time on Monday evening. 
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Three migrants rescued in Spain&#39;s Canary Islands, after apparently enduring an 11-day journey from Nigeria crouched on the rudder of a fuel tanker, should now be returned home under stowaway laws, a police spokesman told Reuters on Tuesday. <a href="https://t.co/l8yQpjzyuG">https://t.co/l8yQpjzyuG</a> <a href="https://t.co/g51XlWKFJt">pic.twitter.com/g51XlWKFJt</a>
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Helena Maleno, director of Walking Borders, said that the stowaway men should have been told they had the right to request political asylum and should have been asked questions before they were put back on the boat, per Reuters. 
&#8220;The conditions of the journey are already an indication that something very serious may be behind it because the photos are incredible. We have never seen conditions like this where they have arrived alive,&#8221; Maleno pointed out. &#8220;These people have to be in a state of shock. They need a couple of days to recover and from there they can explain what they were running from to have made that decision.”
Many <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/migrants" target="_blank" rel="noopener">migrants</a> attempt to get to Europe by way of the Canary Islands, but it is not a safe or pleasant journey. This year, over 11,600 people have come to the Spanish islands via ships, according to Spain’s Interior Ministry, the Associated Press <a href="https://apnews.com/article/europe-africa-business-migration-canary-islands-0373acc1d919249b1a8fe9f29044f736" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. 
The MarineTraffic tracking site reportedly revealed that the boat departed from Nigeria on November 17 and got to Las Palmas on Monday — a distance of around 2,800 miles. 
In 2020, a 14-year-old teen <a href="https://elpais.com/espana/2020-12-12/relato-del-terrible-viaje-del-pequeno-prince.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">arrived</a> in Gran Canaria from Lagos after traveling for 15 days on a tanker’s rudder. He drank salt water and alternated sleeping in a hole located over the rudder with the other men on the journey.
&#8220;We were very weak. I never imagined it could be this hard,” he told outlet El Pais.
The amount of people coming to the Canary Islands from the western region of Africa has <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63791372" target="_blank" rel="noopener">skyrocketed</a> over the past few years.
As the BBC <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-54491057" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> in 2020, from January to the end of July of that year, 3,269 migrants journeyed from West Africa to the Canary Islands. The number is almost a 600% spike from the same period of time in 2019, according to the International Organization for Migration.
Last year, the United Nation’s International Organization for Migration (IOM) stated there were 1,126 fatalities on the dangerous path.

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Three Stowaways Found Alive On Ship’s Rudder After Almost 2,800 Mile Journey At Sea

Three Stowaways Found Alive On Ship's Rudder After Almost 2,800 Mile Journey At Sea To Canary Islands From Nigeria

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Spain

A 28-year-old man has been rescued from the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/gulf-of-mexico" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gulf of Mexico</a> after falling off of a cruise ship and spending hours in the water.
The man, who has not yet been identified, was <a href="https://apnews.com/article/louisiana-gulf-of-mexico-us-coast-guard-566d829e820cca9c1405f3c39370c2a4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rescued</a> by the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/coast-guard" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Coast Guard</a> on Thanksgiving, hours after being reported missing. The man had apparently fallen off the Carnival Valor, a ship from the Carnival Cruise Line that was en route to Mexico.
USCG Lt. Seth Gross <a href="https://www.wwltv.com/article/news/local/orleans/us-coast-guard-aiding-in-search-for-passenger-missing-from-carnival-valor-new-orleans/289-af499971-63e8-49d7-b492-6ea93492733c" target="_blank" rel="noopener">characterized</a> the rescue as “a miracle” in an interview with WWL-TV.
&#8220;I will say one of the highlights of my Coast Guard career was calling the family who was onboard the Carnival Valor to let them know their son was alive and en route to additional medical care,&#8221; Gross said. “Truly just a miracle especially on a holiday like Thanksgiving where it&#8217;s predominantly around family and spending time together.&#8221;
Gross said that the rescued man was stable, but appeared to have mild hypothermia, shock, and dehydration.
The ship was in the midst of a five day cruise beginning in New Orleans, and including stops in Cozumel and Progreso in Mexico. The man’s sister reported him missing after he had not returned to his room after leaving to go to the bathroom at around 11 p.m. Wednesday evening.
Rescue crews had to be on the lookout for a search area about the size of Massachusetts since the ship had gone 200 miles since the man had last been seen.
After being spotted in the water by a cargo ship, a Coast Guard Air Station New Orleans MH-60 Jayhawk aircrew <a href="https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USDHSCG/bulletins/339cd16" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pulled</a> the man out of the water and brought him to an emergency medical care unit in New Orleans. He was lifted out of the water at about 8:25 p.m. Thursday, after spending hours in the water.
“We are beyond grateful that this case ended with a positive outcome,&#8221; Gross said. &#8220;It took a total team effort from Coast Guard watchstanders, response crews, and our professional maritime partners operating in the Gulf of Mexico to locate the missing individual and get him to safety. If not for the alert crew aboard the motor vessel Crinis, this case could have had a much more difficult ending.”
The Coast Guard Heartland shared footage on Twitter of the rescue.
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Footage from the rescue of the cruise ship passenger last night. Can also be downloaded here: <a href="https://t.co/xk0pBnVr1E">https://t.co/xk0pBnVr1E</a> <a href="https://t.co/GK1IXCKlgx">pic.twitter.com/GK1IXCKlgx</a>
&mdash; USCG Heartland (@USCGHeartland) <a href="https://twitter.com/USCGHeartland/status/1596255272984453121?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 25, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Thanksgiving ‘Miracle’: Man Rescued From Gulf Of Mexico Hours After Falling Off Cruise Ship

Man Rescued From Gulf Of Mexico Hours After Falling Off Cruise Ship

Gulf of Mexico

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre dodged answering a question during Tuesday&#8217;s press briefing on the matter of President Joe Biden praising a group of Coast Guard rescue swimmers that included a guardsman who could face termination because he has not received a COVID vaccine.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/desantis-havent-heard-back-from-biden-on-if-hell-reimburse-florida-for-storm-damage-put-politics-aside/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Biden</a> personally thanked a Coast Guardsman for saving a 94-year-old woman in the aftermath of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/thousands-of-florida-households-facing-financial-ruin-in-wake-of-hurricane-ian/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hurricane Ian</a>, but the hero expects to be fired within days for rejecting the COVID vaccine, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/coast-guard-hero-praised-by-biden-for-saving-lives-after-ian-facing-discharge-over-covid-jab-refusal">reported</a>. Aviation Survival Technician Second Class Zach Loesch earned praise in a Friday phone call from the commander in chief for kicking in a wall to save a trapped, wheelchair-bound woman and her husband.
“I told him how proud of him I was and thanked him for all the work he and his Coasties are doing to save lives,” Biden <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/09/30/readout-of-president-joe-bidens-call-with-lieutenant-commander-christopher-hooper-and-aviation-survival-technician-second-class-zach-loesch-of-the-u-s-coast-guard/">said</a> in a press release that thanked Loesch and Lieutenant Commander Christopher Hooper “for the heroic work that they and their Coast Guard colleagues have performed during search and rescue operations in response to Hurricane Ian.”
But the next time Loesch hears from a federal official, it could be to learn his career is over. Loesch said in an interview that he had applied for a religious exemption to avoid taking the COVID vaccine but does not expect it to be honored.
Jean-Pierre was asked about the matter during Tuesday&#8217;s press briefing.
&#8220;The president recently praised a group of Coast Guard rescue swimmers. One of them reportedly faces termination because he isn’t vaccinated,&#8221; a reporter said. &#8220;I’m curious, given the threats that we’re facing abroad, would the president ever reconsider that vaccination requirement or consider issuing more exemptions?&#8221;
&#8220;So, as you — as — as you can imagine, the president has the most — the deepest respect for the U.S. Coast Guard,&#8221; Jean-Pierre claimed. &#8220;That is something that you would hear from him directly. And the country — the president and the country are grateful for all of the U.S. Coast Guard heroes that have led the effort to save lives in Florida. We have seen that with our very own eyes these past couple of days.&#8221;
&#8220;I would refer you specifically to the U.S. Coast Guard on this — on this issue, on this individual questions. It’s not something that I would comment from here,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;But, you know, there, of course, have been multiple vaccination requirements, as you know, in place for quite some time. And — but, again, I’m not going to comment here — from here on an individual case.&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/PhilipWegmann?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PhilipWegmann</a>: Biden &quot;recently praised a group of Coast Guard rescue swimmers, one of them reportedly faces termination b/c he&#39;s not vaccinated&#8230;Given the threats that we&#39;re facing&#8230;would [he] ever reconsider&#8230;or&#8230;issu[e] more exemptions?&quot;
KJP ducks, passes to Coast Guard <a href="https://t.co/Mmy7GP8RgM">pic.twitter.com/Mmy7GP8RgM</a>
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WH Responds To Biden Praising Coast Guard Rescue Swimmer Facing Termination Over Lack Of Vaccination

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