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Disney cruise ship rescues 4 people from sinking in the Atlantic
A Disney cruise ship was rescued four people from a disabled catamaran that sinking off the coast of Bermuda on Sunday, officials said.
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Key revelations emerge in Coast Guard's Titan submersible hearing
Two weeks of public testimony concluded Friday in the U.S. Coast Guard’s investigation to establish what caused the Titan submersible to implode during a deep ocean dive last year, killing all five on board.
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Titan implosion hearing paints a picture of reckless greed and explorer passion
A Coast Guard official testified Friday that he was surprised to learn at the hearing that the crew of the Polar Prince support vessel, in hindsight, felt a slight shudder around the time the Titan submersible imploded.
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Explorers or passengers? Things to know about testimony on the Titan sub disaster
Last year, five people hoping to view the Titanic wreckage died when their submersible imploded deep in the Atlantic Ocean. A Coast Guard panel that’s investigating the disaster is hearing testimony for a second week. On Tuesday, a key employee with the company that owned the experimental submersible that imploded pushed back at a question from a Coast Guard investigator...
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NASA, Boeing and Coast Guard representatives to testify about implosion of Titan submersible
Representatives for NASA, Boeing Co. and the U.S. Coast Guard are slated to testify in front of investigators Thursday about the experimental submersible that imploded en route to the wreckage of the Titanic.
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OceanGate employee pushes back against idea of ‘desperation' to complete missions
A key employee with the company that owned the experimental submersible that imploded en route to the wreckage of the Titanic pushed back at a question from a Coast Guard investigator about whether OceanGate felt a sense of “desperation” to complete the dives because of the high price tag.
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OceanGate co-founder says he hopes submersible tragedy yields renewed interest in exploration
During the submersible’s final dive on June 18, 2023, the crew lost contact after an exchange of texts about Titan’s depth and weight as it descended.
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Passenger on a previous Titan sub dive says his mission was aborted due to apparent malfunction
A paid passenger on an expedition to the Titanic with the company that owned the Titan submersible testified before a U.S. Coast Guard investigatory panel Friday that the mission he took part in was aborted due to an apparent mechanical failure.
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Titan submersible's scientific director says the sub malfunctioned just prior to the Titanic dive
Steven Ross told the board about a platform issue the experimental submersible experienced in June 2023, just days before it imploded on its way to the Titanic site.
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A key employee says the Titan sub tragedy could have been prevented
He is one of the most anticipated witnesses to appear before a commission trying to determine what caused the Titan to implode en route to the wreckage of the Titanic last year.
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WATCH: Animation recreating tragic events of Titan submersible with communications
An animation was created showing the path and communications of the Titan submersible during a hearing held by the U.S. Coast Guard Board of Investigation. The Titan was on a path to explore the wreckage of the Titanic on the ocean floor when it imploded.
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‘All good here' was 1 of the final texts sent from the doomed Titan submersible
The Titan imploded on June 18, 2023, setting off a worldwide debate about the future of private undersea exploration.
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Titanic expedition yields lost bronze statue, high-resolution photos and other discoveries
The location of a bronze statue not seen in decades is among the discoveries made by the company that owns the salvage rights to the Titanic during its first expedition to the site in years.
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Family of explorer who died in the Titan sub implosion seeks $50M-plus in wrongful death lawsuit
The family of a French explorer who died in a submersible implosion have filed a wrongful death lawsuit seeking more than $50 million that accuses the sub’s operator of gross negligence.
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A year after the Titan's tragic dive, deep-sea explorers vow to pursue ocean's mysteries
The deadly implosion of an experimental submersible en route to the deep-sea grave of the Titanic last June has not dulled the desire for ocean exploration.
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Billionaire creating new submersible to visit Titanic wreckage
Real estate billionaire Larry Connor is planning an underwater voyage to the site of the Titanic shipwreck, where an OceanGate submersible imploded on its approach to the sea floor a year ago, killing all five passengers on board....
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New England's ocean water had one of its hottest years in 2023, part of a global trend
The sea off New England, already warming faster than most of the world’s oceans, had one of its hottest years on record in 2023. The Gulf of Maine, a chunk of ocean that abutts New England and Canada, had an annual sea surface temperature nearly 2 degrees Fahrenheit above normal last year, scientists with the Portland, Maine-based Gulf of Maine...
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Man who fell from oil tanker off Boston coast has died, DA says
The man pulled from the Atlantic Ocean off Boston after falling from an oil tanker early Tuesday morning has died, prosecutors confirmed Wednesday. Local fishermen searching for the man who fell from the MTM Dublin happened upon him in the water and raced him to shore, where he was seen being taken from their boat by Boston EMS, the crew…
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Man falls from oil tanker off Boston coast
A man was hospitalized after falling overboard about 30 miles from shore.
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Man falls off oil tanker about 30 miles off Boston coast
The America’s crew says they searched in pitch black conditions for a while before they found the man who’d fallen overboard purely by chance, when their flashlights came upon his reddish-orange life vest, about a mile from where the Dublin was anchored.