Titan Submersible Implosion Reportedly Heard Days Ago by U.S. Navy Detection System
etonline.comThe Wall Street Journal, the «catastrophic implosion» was actually heard days ago when secret U.S. Navy underwater microphones — designed to detect enemy submarines — first detected the implosion just hours after the OceanGate Expeditions' vessel began its voyage on Sunday.The tourist sub lost contact with the Polar Prince research ship an hour and 45 minutes after submerging in an area approximately 900 miles east of Cape Cod, in the North Atlantic, where the ocean reaches a depth of around 13,000 feet.«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 official told The Wall Street Journal. «While not definitive, this information was immediately shared with the Incident Commander to assist with the ongoing search and rescue mission.»According to the outlet, the U.S.
Navy's detection system is so top secret that the military branch asked not to identify it due to national security concerns.
The news came just hours after Rear Admiral John Mauger, the commander of the U.S. Coast Guard leading the search, announced on Thursday that an ROV -- or a remote-operated vehicle — found "five major pieces of debris" that is consistent with the «catastrophic loss of the pressure chamber.»He added that the vessel was found 1,600 feet from the bow of the Titanic.
Read more on etonline.com