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In consultation with experts from within the unified command, the debris is consistent with the catastrophic loss of the pressure

chamber. That was Rear Admiral John Morga from the US Coast Guard, breaking the news that there was

not going to be a miracle after all. There was not going to be a discovery that a pocket of oxygen had kept the five people alive

and that they were bringing this submersible to the surface.

But how many people really in their hearts thought that was possible?

Even though the world watched, horrified, fascinated, fixated, hopeful. As the families grieve,

there are some questions that need to be asked. And that's what we're going to try and do on the

newsag agents today.

When the news came through last night that the submersible had imploded and that the five people on board had died more or less instantly,

it got me thinking that frankly, the Titanic claims more victims. It was the Daily Mail front page headline this morning. This is, of course, though,

about much more than the Titanic, but I get the obsession. There's a five-story red brick building

in Southampton called South Western House, now a block of flats, actually.

But in the 1980s, when I was starting my journalistic career, it was home to BBC Radio Solent.

There was a sort of faded grandeur about the place.

Marble entrance hall, but broken windows and pigeons had sort of set up nests inside that hall and there was lots of peeling stucco.

Its heyday was the first half of the 20th century when it was then the South Western Hotel.

And it's where the rich and the well-heeled went to stay before they boarded their ocean liner on voyages around the world.

There were steam trains that would come up to the entrance of the hotel.

And in the 1980s when I was there, the platforms were the car park.

And they would disgorge the well-to-do with their trunks and there'd be

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