Teenager feared dead on Titanic submersible was a business student in Glasgow

OceanGate could still face some legal trouble following the catastrophic implosion of the Titan submersible – even though the now-deceased passengers signed waivers.

The Titan submersible's mothership returned to shore on the town of St John's on Newfoundland Island on Saturday (June 24). Rescue ships also made their return, bearing the weight of the loss of five men onboard OceanGate's submersible.

Titanic movie director James Cameron, who himself visited the Titanic wreckage site over 30 times, has made a statement about the tragedy on the OceanGate Titan submersible that is getting attention.

James Cameron has a great deal of experience with the difficult and potentially dangerous process of such an adventure.The wreckage site has once again gripped the public's attention after OceanGate Expeditions' tourist submersible, Titan, went missing on June 18 while carrying five passengers during a dive down to the Titanic's final resting place. Five days later, Rear Admiral John Mauger, the commander of the U.S.

Several experts are speaking out about what might have happened underwater during the catastrophic tragedy that claimed the lives of the five victims aboard the OceanGate submersible headed to the Titanic wreckage site.

The families of the five victims who were passengers aboard the OceanGate Titan submersible vessel en route to the Titanic wreckage site have all released statements.

“Titanic” director and deep sea explorer James Cameron is opening up about when he first learned that the Titan tourist submersible had likely imploded, days before debris was discovered.

The families of three of the victims of the Titanic submersible implosion have paid tribute to them as 'beloved, dedicated' fathers and sons.

director and deep sea explorer James Cameron is opening up about when he first learned that the Titan tourist submersible had likely imploded, days before debris was discovered.On Thursday, Rear Admiral John Mauger, the commander of the U.S. Coast Guard who lead the search and rescue operation, announced that all aboard the vessel — owned by OceanGate Expeditions — were presumed «dead» following a «catastrophic implosion» and the discovery of debris.Cameron, meanwhile, spoke with CNN's Anderson Cooper Thursday, and said he'd learned on Monday that the submersible had likely imploded, and that the five passengers had likely been killed.«I've been living with it for a few days now, as [have] some of my other colleagues in the deep submergence community,» Cameron, 68, shared.According to the filmmaker — who has spent decades as an active and avid deep sea diver, and has taken over 30 trips to the Titanic wreckage — he was on a boat by himself on Sunday when Titan undertook its ill-fated plunge.«Then the first I heard about it was on Monday morning. I immediately got on my network, because it's a very small community… and found out some information within about a half hour that they had lost comms and they had lost tracking simultaneously,» Cameron explained.

The 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.

Brian Szasz has been making headlines for various reasons amid the disappearance and presumed death of his stepdad Hamish Harding, who was one of the five passengers of OceanGate’s submersible.

presumed «dead» along with the four other passengers on the vessel, was married to the descendent of a couple who died in the very shipwreck his expedition aimed to see.Per, the , Stockton's wife, Wendy Rush, is the great-great-granddaughter of Isidor and Ida Straus, who remained onboard the sinking Titanic so that others could escape to safety in their place.The couple was the real-life inspiration behind the heart-wrenching scene in James Cameron's movie, in which an elderly couple holds onto each other in bed as water rushes into their room.Wendy's Titanic connection was confirmed by the  through genealogical records and by the Straus Historical Society — an educational nonprofit.

James Cameron — director of the 1997 blockbuster Titanic who has visited the wreckage more than 30 times — has responded to the Titan submersible disaster.

Experts fear that the bodies of the five Titanic submersible victims may never be found after the missing vessel imploded in the Atlantic Ocean.

James Cameron is speaking out following the tragic news regarding the 21-foot submersible, Titan, that was carrying five men on a dive to explore the wreckage site of the Titanic.On Thursday, Rear Admiral John Mauger, the commander of the U.S. Coast Guard, announced that all aboard are presumed «dead» following a «catastrophic implosion.»Cameron, who directed -- based on the 1912 accident that sunk the cruise liner — and has taken 33 trips to the scene of the wreckage himself, spoke about the submersible's final voyage.«A number of the top players in the deep submergence engineering community even wrote letters to the company, saying that what they were doing was too experimental to carry passengers and that it needed to be certified,» Cameron told ABC News during an interview about the precautions that came ahead of the mission. ‘Titanic’ director James Cameron on the ‘catastrophic implosion’ of Titan submersible: “I’m struck by the similarity of the Titanic disaster itself, where the captain was repeatedly warned about ice ahead of his ship and yet he steamed at full speed into an ice field." pic.twitter.com/vO8JkCXS5fThe Canadian filmmaker shared that he saw similarities between the fate of the submersible and the doomed ocean liner.«I’m struck by the similarity of the Titanic disaster itself, where the captain was repeatedly warned about ice ahead of his ship, and yet he steamed at full speed into an ice field on a moonless night and many people died as a result,» he said.

Expedition Unknown on Discovery Plus, tweeted on Wednesday (June 21) that he turned down the opportunity to film Titanic because the submersible “did not perform well” during a test dive.Gates said that he was given the chance to join OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush on a test dive, which took place in July 2021.“To those asking, #Titan did not perform well on my dive. Ultimately, I walked away from a huge opportunity to film Titanic due to my safety concerns w/ the @OceanGate platform.

The five people on board the Titan sub are believed to have died, the operating company behind the submersible has announced.

A "debris field" has been identified within the search area for the lost Titan submersible, according to the US Coast Guard (USCG). The discovery was made by a remotely-operated vehicle (ROV) near the Titanic wreckage on Thursday.

A troubling update has been released by the Northeast division of the United States Coast Guard with regard to the missing OceanGate Expeditions submersible.

The US Coast Guard has said a "debris field" has been found within the search area for the missing Titan submersible.