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The US Coast Guard has opened a massive probe after the tragedy of the doomed OceanGate Titan sub and said that recovering debris from the wreckage will be “the priority.”
A multi-agency Marine Board of Investigation has been convened to probe the cause of the fatal underwater mishap, with the search and rescue operation now officially over, Coast Guard officials said at a briefing Sunday.
“The priority of the investigation is to recover items from the sea floor,” Coast Guard Capt. Jason Neubauer, who is heading the investigation, told reporters.
“The resources are on site and capable of recovering the debris.”
Neubauer said that the accident site has been mapped out and they were also prepared to handle the possible discovery of any human remains.
“We are communicating with family members. I’m not going to get into details of the recovery operations, but we are taking all precautions on site if we are to encounter any human remains,” he said.
The days-long search for the doomed sub covered some 13,000 square miles of the Atlantic Ocean using 11 ships, five underwater crafts and four airborne search crews.
