PICTURED: The Titan mothership returns to shore in Newfoundland
PICTURED: The submarine mothership Titanic that plunged five men into a doomed plunge returns to shore in Newfoundland — as Canadian transport officials open a safety investigation
- Polar Prince arrived early Saturday at the port of St. John’s in Canada
- The Titan sub-mothership returned with five fewer people than it left with
- Officials are now investigating why the submarine imploded during a dive to the Titanic’s wreckage
The support ship that launched the doomed submarine Titan has returned to port in Canada, following the submarine’s catastrophic implosion that killed all five men on board during a dive to the wreckage of the Titanic.
The Polar Prince arrived in St John’s Harbor, Newfoundland, on Saturday morning and moored at about 8:15 a.m. local time as the sun broke through the morning haze.
Crew members in orange helmets were seen on the deck of the ship, which returned to port with five fewer souls on board than the 24 it left with eight days earlier.
The ship had taken part in a massive search for the Titan about 430 miles south of St. John’s that ended Thursday with confirmation that the submarine had imploded deep underwater, likely shortly after it launched on Sunday.
The winding down of salvage efforts comes as the Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) announced it would conduct a safety investigation into the fatal deep-sea vessel implosion.
The Polar Prince, the main support ship for the Titan submarine, arrives Saturday at St. John’s port in Newfoundland, Canada
The Polar Prince is a decommissioned Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker now owned by Miawpukek Horizon Maritime Service Ltd and chartered by the extreme tourism company OceanGate as a support vessel for the Titan’s fatal dive.
OceanGate founder and CEO Stockton Rush was killed aboard the company’s submarine, along with passengers Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman Dawood, British adventurer Hamish Harding and Titanic expert Paul-Henri Nargeolet.
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