Five tourists aboard missing Titan submersible assumed dead

All five tourists aboard the Titan submersible are assumed to be dead as debris was discovered in the search area.

According to the officials, the debris was found off the bow of the sunken Titanic. The debris found at the seafloor was “consistent with a catastrophic implosion of the vessel,” the Coast Guard said.

The search for the Titan, which went missing Sunday after it embarked on a mission to survey the wreckage of the Titanic, had been focused on an area where Canadian aircraft detected “underwater noises” Tuesday and again yesterday.

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U.S. Coast Guard officials had estimated the five passengers could run out of air just before 7:10 a.m. ET today, and the location of the missing vessel had remained a mystery even as the search intensified.