The Coast Guard on Sunday launched an investigation into the loss of the Titan sub, which imploded with five people on board while attempting a dive to the wreckage of the Titanic.
The Coast Guard's Marine Board of Investigation , the service's highest level of investigation, will include authorities from Canada, France and the United Kingdom as they look into what caused the deadly implosion.
Chief Investigator Capt. Jason Neubauer said during a Sunday press conference that the first step will be to collect evidence by salvaging debris. Once evidence collection concludes, the investigators will likely hold a formal hearing to get witness testimony, he said. Investigators will also look into possible"misconduct, incompetence, negligence, unskillfulness or willful violation of law" by OceanGate, the company that operated the Titan, or by the Coast Guard itself, the service branch said in a statement.The U.S. Navy on Sunday told The Associated Press that it would not be using the Flyaway Deep Ocean Salvage System to assist the Coast Guard in retrieving debris.
"Efforts are focused on helping map the debris field in preparation for recovery efforts and to support investigative actions. Efforts to mobilize equipment such as the Flyaway Deep Ocean Salvage System have been discontinued," a Navy official told AP. last weekend during a voyage to the Titanic wreckage in the North Atlantic. The crew of the Polar Prince research vessel lost contact with the submersible 1 hour and 45 minutes into its June 18 dive.
A frantic search was launched for the sub, in which the Coast Guard searched by air and sea as the hours counted down to when the
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