Good evening from St. John's, Newfoundland, a sad and sombre evening here.

This is where five explorers and would be explorers for a set-off on Friday out into the

open ocean, traveling some 460 miles from here toward the rack of the RMS Titanic.

Then on Sunday morning, they were sealed inside the submersible, tightened and lowered into

the ocean for their descent to the seabed, some 13,000 feet below about two miles.

A listen two hours later, communication, as you know, was lost with submersible.

You know, we just learned it was about that time a senior Navy official tells CNN that a

Navy network of underwater sensors picked up sounds consistent, they said, with an implosion,

but that it was determined to be, quote, not definitive, unquote.

This afternoon, we learned the worst.

This morning, an ROV or remote operated vehicle from the Vessel Horizon Arctic,

discovered the tailcomb of the Titan submersible approximately 1,600 feet from the

bow of the Titanic on the seafloor. The ROV subsequently found additional debris.

In consultation with experts from within the unified command, the debris is consistent with the

catastrophic loss of the pressure chamber.

And that the rear admiral said caused Titan to implode. The remote operating vehicle,

which located the Titan had sonar on it, arms and a camera for spotted Titans nose cone in

that larger debris field that he talked about. That was some 1,600 feet away from the bow of

the Titanic. And then there was a second smaller debris field where they found the aft of the

hull, the pressure hull. When asked whether the vessel had perhaps struck a wreckage from the

Titanic or had been damaged somehow on the ocean floor, the rear admiral said the area around that

large debris field was smooth. When asked about the precise timing of the catastrophic implosion,

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