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U.S. Navy Heard What It Believed Was Titan Implosion Days Ago​

Underwater microphones designed to detect enemy submarines first detected Titan tragedy​


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The submersible Titan prepares for a dive into a remote area of the Atlantic Ocean on an expedition to the Titanic earlier this month. PHOTO: ACTION AVIATION/ASSOCIATED PRESS
A top secret military acoustic detection system designed to spot enemy submarines first heard what the U.S. Navy suspected was the Titan submersible implosion hours after the vehicle began its mission, officials involved in the search said.
The Navy began listening for the Titan almost as soon as the sub lost communications, according to a U.S. defense official. Shortly after the submersible’s disappearance Sunday, the U.S. system detected what it suspected was the sound of an implosion near the debris site discovered Thursday and reported its findings to the commander on site, U.S. defense officials said.

“The U.S. Navy conducted an analysis of acoustic data and detected an anomaly consistent with an implosion or explosion in the general vicinity of where the Titan submersible was operating when communications were lost,” a senior U.S. Navy official told The Wall Street Journal in a statement. “While not definitive, this information was immediately shared with the Incident Commander to assist with the ongoing search and rescue mission.”
The Navy asked that the specific system used not be named, citing national security concerns.


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The U.S. Coast Guard on Thursday said all five passengers aboard a missing submersible were believed to be dead after a remote vehicle found debris near the Titanic shipwreck. Photo: OceanGate Expeditions/AFP/Getty Images
Updates to follow as the news develops
Write to Ben Kesling at ben.kesling@wsj.com, Nancy A. Youssef at nancy.youssef@wsj.com, Gordon Lubold at gordon.lubold@wsj.com and Costas Paris at costas.paris@wsj.com
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Agreed. But, I'm not really sure what he's saying when he says that within the community, they understand that there was an emergency ascent going on. How would they know this? Just a supposition maybe?
My guess - he prob knows a bunch of people involved in the SAR since that's a small community and people are sharing stuff with him and others they are buddies with privately.
 
It is going to be very interesting if the truth of who new what and when is eventually revealed.
 
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U.S. Navy Heard What It Believed Was Titan Implosion Days Ago​

Underwater microphones designed to detect enemy submarines first detected Titan tragedy​


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The submersible Titan prepares for a dive into a remote area of the Atlantic Ocean on an expedition to the Titanic earlier this month. PHOTO: ACTION AVIATION/ASSOCIATED PRESS
A top secret military acoustic detection system designed to spot enemy submarines first heard what the U.S. Navy suspected was the Titan submersible implosion hours after the vehicle began its mission, officials involved in the search said.
The Navy began listening for the Titan almost as soon as the sub lost communications, according to a U.S. defense official. Shortly after the submersible’s disappearance Sunday, the U.S. system detected what it suspected was the sound of an implosion near the debris site discovered Thursday and reported its findings to the commander on site, U.S. defense officials said.

“The U.S. Navy conducted an analysis of acoustic data and detected an anomaly consistent with an implosion or explosion in the general vicinity of where the Titan submersible was operating when communications were lost,” a senior U.S. Navy official told The Wall Street Journal in a statement. “While not definitive, this information was immediately shared with the Incident Commander to assist with the ongoing search and rescue mission.”
The Navy asked that the specific system used not be named, citing national security concerns.


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The U.S. Coast Guard on Thursday said all five passengers aboard a missing submersible were believed to be dead after a remote vehicle found debris near the Titanic shipwreck. Photo: OceanGate Expeditions/AFP/Getty Images
Updates to follow as the news develops
Write to Ben Kesling at ben.kesling@wsj.com, Nancy A. Youssef at nancy.youssef@wsj.com, Gordon Lubold at gordon.lubold@wsj.com and Costas Paris at costas.paris@wsj.com
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The Missing Titanic Tourists​

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Prior Passengers Recount Thrilling ExperiencePrior Passengers Recount Thrilling Experience
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What We Know and What Could Have HappenedWhat We Know and What Could Have Happened
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Had this been communicated earlier, they would have stopped wasting our tax $$$ to do the surface search, chasing false tank banging sound and just get right to find the debris field right next to the Titanic.
 
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My guess - he prob knows a bunch of people involved in the SAR since that's a small community and people are sharing stuff with him and others they are buddies with privately.
Like “accidents and incidents” where some people know the deets and let you know they know, but don’t deliver the info. Except good guy Cameron delivers.
 
Will be very interesting to hear @Subfiend take on this most tragic incident.
He is a lawyer for OceanGate and was scheduled to make this dive before life got in his way. I doubt he will tell us much.
 
Had this been communicated earlier, they would have stopped wasting our tax $$$ to do the surface search, chasing false tank banging sound and just get right to find the debris field right next to the Titanic.
So, what? You’d have told folks that there was no hope?

Was the timing of finding the wreckage peculiar, maybe? Perhaps just after hope was lost?
 

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