On Sunday, a 22-foot submersible called Titan went missing on a trip to explore the wreck of the Titanic. Five people were aboard. As the sub’s supply of oxygen dwindled, authorities launched a desperate search of the seafloor, covering an area the size of Massachusetts. Rescue ships pinged the ocean with sonar in the hopes of detecting the shape of the vehicle, and listened for it with microphones.
Now, the United States Coast Guard has announced that a remotely operated vehicle found the wreckage 1,600 feet from the bow of the Titanic on the seafloor, some 12,500 feet deep. “The debris is consistent with the catastrophic loss of the pressure
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