PICTURED: Titanic submersible mothership that plunged five men into doomed dive returns to shore in Newfoundland – as Canadian transport officials open safety investigation
- Polar Prince arrived in port at St John’s harbor in Canada early on Saturday
- Titan sub mothership returned with five fewer people than it departed with
- Officials are now investigating why the sub imploded on dive to Titanic wreck
The support ship that launched the doomed Titan submersible has returned to port in Canada, following the sub’s catastrophic implosion that killed all five men aboard during a dive to the Titanic wreckage.
The Polar Prince arrived in St John’s Harbor, Newfoundland, on Saturday morning, docking at about 8.15am local time as sun broke through the morning haze.
Crew members in orange hard hats were seen on the deck of the vessel, which returned to port with five fewer souls aboard than the 24 it departed with eight days earlier.
The ship had taken part in a massive search effort for the Titan about 435 miles south of St John’s, which came to an end on Thursday with the confirmation the sub had imploded deep underwater, likely soon after it launched on Sunday.
The wind down of recovery efforts comes as the Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) announced it would be conducting a safety investigation into the fatal implosion of the deep sea vessel.
The Polar Prince, the main support ship for the Titan submersible, arrives at the Port of St. John’s in Newfoundland, Canada on Saturday
The Polar Prince is a decommissioned Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker now owned by Miawpukek Horizon Maritime Service Ltd, and chartered by extreme tourism company OceanGate as a support vessel for the Titan’s fatal dive.
OceanGate founder and CEO Stockton Rush was killed aboard the company’s submersible, along with passengers Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman Dawood, British adventurer Hamish Harding, and Titanic expert Paul-Henri Nargeolet.
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