Titanic submarine remains were found 'almost immediately' during rescue mission

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The Titanic submarine's remains were found "almost immediately" by a rescue robot, according to the head of the search operation.Ed Cassano, chief executive of the New York-based Pelagic Research Services, said the firm's ROV vehicle found the submersible four days after the OceanGate Titan went missing.

It made its way to the site of the Titanic at 5am on June 22 after the vessel, which had five people on-board, lost contact with the mothership 45 minutes into the deep-sea dive.The Mirror reports that the robot was the only vessel used during the search that was capable of diving all the way to the Titanic wreckage.

Just hours into the trip, it became a rescue mission.Mr Cassano said: “Shortly after we arrived on the sea floor, we discovered the debris of the Titan submersible.

By 12 o’clock, sadly, a rescue turned into a recovery."Stockton Rush, 61, OceanGate's founder, Paul-Henri Nargeolet, 77, Shahzada Dawood, 48; his 19-year-old son Suleman; and Hamish Harding, 58, a billionaire explorer all tragically lost their lives after the vessel suffered a "catastrophic implosion." During the operation, Mr Cassano envisaged four possible scenarios, with the best being that the Titan was resting on the seafloor but had lost the power to come back up.He admitted: “The plan was to grab the Titan."They would have attached a "lifting motor" to the submersible and would raise it to a depth where ROVs from another search could operate.He said: "The sub was not being tracked.