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No survivors found after catastrophic submersible implosion

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USA TODAY

News, Daily News

4.11.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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No survivors were found after a catastrophic submersible implosion.

Victims of the sub disaster included the mission company's CEO, a teenager and others.

USA TODAY Supreme Court Correspondent John Fritze puts a decision on Navajo water in context.

Victor Wembanyama highlights the 2023 NBA Draft class.

American South Reporter Danielle Dreilinger looks at how Mississippi women are faring amid a near-total abortion ban.


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0:00.0

Good morning, I'm Taylor Wilson, and this is five things you need to know Friday, the 23rd

0:08.7

of June, 2023.

0:12.3

Today, the devastating truth about what happened to the missing Titans of Mercible, plus the Supreme

0:27.6

Court decides a major water case involving the Navajo Nation.

0:32.6

And we go to Mississippi to hear how an abortion ban there is playing out.

0:44.1

All five passengers on the missing Titan submersible are dead.

0:48.2

Debris from the Doom sub was found yesterday near the Titanic wreckage, and officials say

0:53.4

it imploded.

0:54.9

Coast Guard rear admiral John Malger said Debris found was consisted with catastrophic

1:00.3

loss of the pressure chamber.

1:02.3

An ROV or remote operated vehicle from the vessel Horizon Arctic discovered the tail

1:10.0

cone of the Titans of Mercible, approximately 1,600 feet from the bow of the Titanic on

1:19.0

the sea floor.

1:20.3

The submersible, which aimed to visit the Titanic wreck, went missing on Sunday less than

1:24.9

two hours into its dive in the North Atlantic.

1:28.3

It was said to have around four days of oxygen supply if the sub remained intact.

1:33.1

That would have run out yesterday morning, but it increasingly appears the sub may have

1:37.8

imploded early Sunday.

1:39.4

A senior US Navy official said last night that after the Titan was reported missing, the

1:45.3

Navy went back and analyzed acoustic data.

1:48.5

It found an anomaly consistent with an implosion or explosion in the general area where the vessel

1:54.6

was operating and where communication was lost.

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