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    US NAVY ACOUSTIC SYSTEM DETECTED 'ANOMALY' THAT WAS LIKELY IMPLOSION, OFFICIAL SAYS

    A U.S. Navy acoustic system detected an 'anomaly' Sunday that was likely the Titan鈥檚 fatal implosion, according to a senior military official.

    The Navy went back and analyzed its acoustic data after the Titan submersible was reported missing Sunday. Coast Guard officials on Thursday announced that the craft suffered a catastrophic implosion, killing all five aboard.

    That anomaly was "consistent with an implosion or explosion in the general vicinity of where the TITAN submersible was operating when communications were lost," according to a senior Navy official.

    The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive acoustic detection system.

    The Navy passed on the information to the Coast Guard, which continued its search because the Navy did not consider the data to be definitive.

    The Wall Street Journal on Thursday first reported the Navy's involvement.

    TITANIC SALVAGE RIGHTS OWNER MOURNS LOSS OF SHIPWRECK EXPERT

    RMS Titanic, Inc., the company that owns the salvage rights to the Titanic shipwreck, is mourning the loss of Titanic expert Paul-Henri Nargeolet, who was among five people killed aboard the Titan submersible when it imploded this week.

    Nargeolet 鈥 known as "PH" 鈥 was a long-term employee of the company, and his father was previously its CEO.

    "The maritime world has lost an iconic and inspirational leader in deep-sea exploration, and we have lost a dear and treasured friend," the company said in a statement Thursday.

    Friend and former colleague Matthew Tulloch said Nargeolet loved his work from the time they collaborated in the 1990s up until Nargeolet's death.

    "I never got the impression that he was looking forward to retirement," Tulloch said with a small laugh. "You sort of think of people as they retire, then they can go on and do things that they love to do. This was exactly that for him 鈥 I can鈥檛 think of anything that I'm aware of that he would enjoy doing more than traveling around and sharing information and his experiences with people."

    WHITE HOUSE OFFERS CONDOLENCES TO FAMILIES OF TITAN VICTIMS

    The White House offered its condolences to the families mourning the five people killed aboard the Titan submersible.

    U.S. Coast Guard officials announced their deaths Thursday following the vessel鈥檚 catastrophic implosion in the North Atlantic.

    "Our hearts go out to the families and loved ones of those who lost their lives on the Titan," the White House said in a statement. "They have been through a harrowing ordeal over the past few days, and we are keeping them in our thoughts and prayers."

    The statement also thanked the searchers, including the Coast Guard, involved in the international effort to find the submersible.

    "This has been a testament to the skill and professionalism that the men and women who serve our nation continue to demonstrate every single day," the statement said.

    'TITANIC' DIRECTOR JAMES CAMERON SAYS DEEP-SEA EXPLORERS VOICED CONCERNS ABOUT TITAN

    "Titanic" movie director James Cameron says the Titan submersible tragedy has eerie parallels to the ocean liner's disaster more than a century ago.

    Debris from the submersible's catastrophic implosion, killing all five aboard, was discovered near the shipwreck.

    In an interview with ABC News, Cameron said he was "struck" by the similarities. The Titanic's captain ignored warnings about ice in the North Atlantic, and the movie director said deep-sea explorers voiced concerns about the Titan submersible, saying it was too experimental to carry passengers.

    "To take place at the same exact site with all the diving that's going on all around the world, I think it's just astonishing," Cameron told the TV station. "It's really quite surreal."

    Cameron had previously traveled to the Titanic wreckage, including on Sept. 11, 2001, in a submersible vessel.

    PAKISTAN OFFERS CONDOLENCES TO FAMILY OF FATHER AND SON ABOARD IMPLODED SUBMERSIBLE

    Pakistan has offered the country鈥檚 condolences to the Dawood family after the father-and-son explorers were among five killed when the Titan submersible imploded deep in the North Atlantic waters during a trip to the Titanic鈥檚 wreckage.

    Pakistani nationals Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman were aboard the Titan when it went missing Sunday. Authorities on Thursday said the catastrophic implosion meant there were no survivors.

    The Dawoods are members of one of Pakistan鈥檚 most prominent families and their firm, Dawood Hercules Corp., based in Karachi, is involved in agriculture, petrochemicals and telecommunication infrastructure.

    鈥淥ur deepest condolences to the Dawood family and the family of other passengers on the sad news about the fate of Titanic submersible in the North Atlantic,鈥 Pakistan鈥檚 Foreign Ministry wrote on . 鈥淲e appreciate the multinational efforts over the last several days in search of the vessel.鈥

    COAST GUARD SAYS SOUNDS HEARD DURING SEARCH LIKELY UNRELATED TO TITAN SUBMERSIBLE

    The Coast Guard says underwater sounds and banging noises detected in the search area for the Titan were likely unrelated to the missing submersible.

    The sounds, heard over two days, gave hope to searchers and those watching the massive effort unfold since Sunday, when the vessel was reported missing, but ultimately seems irrelevant.

    Experts say the ocean floor is a "noisy" place and a potential connection between the banging and the Titan were unlikely.

    Debris from the Titan, which suffered a catastrophic implosion that killed all five men aboard, was found near the Titanic shipwreck deep in the North Atlantic waters.

    "There doesn鈥檛 appear to be any connection between the noises and the location on the seafloor," Rear Adm. John Mauger of the First Coast Guard District said Thursday.

    COAST GUARD WILL CONTINUE SEARCHING SEA FLOOR FOR CLUES

    The Coast Guard will continue searching the sea floor near the Titanic shipwreck for more clues about what happened to the Titan submersible deep in the North Atlantic waters.

    Officials say there isn鈥檛 a timeframe for when they will call off the massive international search. Efforts to recover the submersible and the remains of the five men who died in a catastrophic implosion aboard the vessel remain ongoing.

    Much of the search is being done by remotely operated underwater vehicles known as ROVs that can scan the sea floor.

    "This is an incredibly unforgiving environment down there on the seafloor," Rear Adm. John Mauger of the First Coast Guard District said Thursday.

    TITAN鈥橲 DEBRIS FIELD WAS FOUND NEAR TITANIC SHIPWRECK, COAST GUARD SAYS

    Coast Guard officials say the Titan鈥檚 debris field was discovered near the Titanic shipwreck but it鈥檚 too early to tell exactly when the catastrophic implosion occurred.

    The Titan submersible was reported missing Sunday 鈥 eight hours after it initially lost contact with its surface ship 鈥 and its 96-hour oxygen supply would have run out Thursday morning.

    It鈥檚 not clear whether the implosion occurred Sunday or in the days following, during an international search effort to find the missing submersible.

    The Titan鈥檚 debris field was located roughly 1,600 feet (488 meters) from the Titanic.

    In this satellite image provided by Maxar Technologies, from top to bottom, the vessels L'Atalante, Horizon Arctic, Deep Energy, and Skandi Vinland search for the missing submersible Titan, Wednesday June 22, 2023 in the Atlantic Ocean. (Satellite image 漏2023 Maxar Technologies via AP)

    TITAN SUBMERSIBLE LIKELY IMPLODED AND THERE WERE NO SURVIVORS, COAST GUARD SAYS

    The Coast Guard says the Titan submersible likely imploded in the North Atlantic waters and there were no survivors among the five people aboard.

    The implosion likely occurred near the Titanic shipwreck, where the submersible was headed.

    "The debris is consistent with the catastrophic loss of the pressure chamber," Rear Adm. John Mauger, the First Coast Guard District, said Thursday. "Our most heartfelt condolences go out to the loved ones of the crew."

    OCEANGATE SAYS FIVE PEOPLE ON MISSING SUBMERSIBLE BELIEVED TO BE DEAD

    The company leading the Titan submersible trip to the wreckage of the Titanic says the five missing crew members are believed to be dead.

    OceanGate Expeditions on Thursday says its pilot and chief executive Stockton Rush, along with passengers Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman Dawood, Hamish Harding, and Paul-Henri Nargeolet 鈥渉ave sadly been lost.鈥

    OceanGate did not provide details Thursday when the company announced the 鈥渓oss of life鈥 in a statement or how officials knew the crew members perished.

    The vessel鈥檚 96-hour oxygen supply likely ended early Thursday morning.

    The company has been chronicling the Titanic鈥檚 decay and the underwater ecosystem around it via yearly voyages since 2021.

    Composite photo of Titan passengers. From left: OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush; British billionaire Hamish Harding; Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his son, Suleman; and French explorer Paul-Henri Nargeolet.

    8-HOUR TIME DELAY TO REPORT MISSING TITAN RAISES QUESTIONS

    Questions remain about the eight hours between when the Titan lost communication with the surface and when its Canadian support vessel reported it missing to the U.S. Coast Guard.

    The time delay has yet to be explained by the company that owns the submersible, OceanGate Expeditions.

    Sean Leet, head of the company that co-owns the Titan鈥檚 support ship, has refused to discuss the timeline, saying only that 鈥渁ll protocols were followed for the mission.鈥

    But experts familiar with deep-sea exploration say those lost hours raise red flags.

    The submersible used a rudimentary system that basically communicated with the surface ship through text message, and likely lacked an emergency radio beacon that could have floated to the surface and started beeping if there was an emergency.

    The vessel had lost communication with the support ship, Canadian research icebreaker Polar Prince, during previous dives.

    PAST DEEP-SEA RESCUES SHOW CHALLENGES FOR TITAN

    The search for the Titan submersible has drawn attention to other deep-sea rescues, only some of which ended in lives being saved.

    Those successful efforts -- from a submersible off Ireland to a submarine off the New Hampshire coast -- offer some measure of hope for the passengers and their families.

    But many ended with some, if not all, the passengers on board dying -- demonstrating the inherent risk of operating in the deep ocean.

    Either way, those rescue missions were not as complex as the effort to find the Titan submersible. They were often in shallower waters and, in several cases, were much bigger crafts.

    For example, the USS Squalus sank off the coast of New England in 1939 during a test dive, due to a catastrophic valve failure that partially flooded the military submarine. A newly developed rescue chamber was lowered into the water to famously save the surviving 33 crew members. Twenty-six others drowned in the initial accident.

    But the Titan is a civilian vessel and would not have standard Navy hatches that could attach to a rescue chamber like the one used for the Squalus. That makes it almost impossible to rescue any of the submersible's occupants if they are found underwater.

    SEARCH FOR TITAN SHOWS NEED FOR MORE DEEP-SEA TECH

    An underwater researcher says the search for the Titan shows the desperate need for more deep-sea technology in the U.S.

    The unsuccessful efforts have "really opened up people's eyes that we need a much more robust capability over larger areas of the ocean to be able to detect and sense where things are," said Nick Rotker, who leads underwater research for non-profit research and development company .

    The U.S. needs more underwater robots and remotely operated underwater vehicles, known as ROVs, to ensure safety, he said, especially as private exploration of the ocean expands.

    "The issue is we don't have a lot of capability or systems that can go to the depth this vessel was going to," Rotker said.

    Several ROVs are in the North Atlantic waters to search for the missing submersible. One found a debris field near the Titanic wreckage that could be linked to the Titan. The debris field was discovered by a robot from a Canadian vessel.

    DEBRIS FIELD DISCOVERED BY DEEP-SEA ROBOT

    Officials say a remote-operated robot discovered the debris field near the Titanic that could be linked to the missing Titan.

    The robot is one of several remotely operated vehicles, known as ROVs, scanning the sea floor for clues of the missing submersible.

    The ROVs are outfitted with cameras and travel to depths many other vessels cannot and have been used for undersea exploration for decades.

    The gave no details, such as whether officials believe the debris field is connected to the Titan.

    The Titanic wreckage is located at a depth of 12,500 feet (3.8 kilometers) in the North Atlantic waters.

    The Coast Guard has scheduled an afternoon news conference in Boston to discuss the ROV's findings.

    DEBRIS FIELD DISCOVERED

    The U.S. Coast Guard says an underwater vessel has located a debris field near the Titanic in the search for a missing submersible with five people aboard, a potential breakthrough in an increasingly urgent around-the-clock effort.

    The Coast Guard's post on Twitter gave no details, such as whether officials believe the debris is connected to the Titan, which was on an expedition to view the wreckage of the Titanic. The search passed the critical 96-hour mark Thursday morning when breathable air could have run out.

    The Titan was estimated to have about a four-day supply of breathable air when it launched Sunday morning in the North Atlantic -- but experts have emphasized that was an imprecise approximation to begin with and could be extended if passengers have taken measures to conserve breathable air.

    PAKISTAN'S GOV'T FOLLOWING SEARCH FOR TITAN AND 2 NATIONALS ABOARD

    A spokesperson for Pakistan's Foreign Ministry says the country's diplomats in the United States and Canada are following developments in the search for the Titan.

    Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his son, Suleman, are among the five people aboard the submersible that went missing Sunday as it descended to the wreckage of the Titanic. Ministry spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch said Thursday in Islamabad that the government has confidence the search mission will be pursued effectively.

    It was the first comment by any Pakistani official since the submersible vanished. The Dawoods are members of one of the country's most prominent families.

    AS OXYGEN LEVELS RUN LOW ON BOARD TITAN, PASSENGERS CAN MAKE MINOR CONSERVATION EFFORTS

    The Titan was said to have enough oxygen on board to to last 96 hours, according to the U.S. Coast Guard, meaning they could run out sometime Thursday.

    But there are ways the five passengers can conserve, said professor Hugh Montgomery, director of the Centre for Human Health and Performance at University College London, even as temperatures drop to near freezing.

    The human body makes every effort to maintain a core body temperature so shivering may increase oxygen demands, he said.

    "The only effective way to limit O2 demand in this circumstance is not to burn excess energy," Montgomery said.

    That means staying immobile or sleeping. Meditation can also slightly reduce oxygen demand by producing less stress hormones, less movement and more relaxed muscles, but such effects will be marginal, he said.

    FRENCH DEEP SEA ROBOT JOINS INTERNATIONAL SEARCH FOR MISSING SUBMERSIBLE

    A French deep sea robot that can dive to depths of 6,000 meters (19,685 feet) has joined the search for the missing Titan submersible and its five passengers.

    France's state-run ocean research institute said Thursday the Victor 6000 is fitted with cameras, lights and robotic arms that could, if Titan is found, assist in raising it to the surface.

    "With all of its cameras and things, we're capable of finding things really well in an area 20 to 30 meters (yards) around," said Olivier Lefort, the fleet director at the French ocean research institute Ifremer. He added that if the Titan is found, Victor 6000 could help attach cables to the submersible in an effort to raise it.

    The robot was aboard the French ocean research ship L'Atalante, which was working in the Atlantic, 48 hours away, when the Titan vanished Sunday on its way to the Titanic wreckage, which is at about 3,800 meters (12,467 feet) deep.

    This photo provided by OceanGate Expeditions shows a submersible vessel named Titan used to visit the wreckage site of the Titanic. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-OceanGate Expeditions via AP

    'DESPERATE SITUATION:' SCIENTISTS, WHILE REALISTIC ABOUT SURVIVAL CHANCES, OFFER HOPE

    Scientists, while remaining realistic about the chances of finding the Titan on the vast ocean floor, are still offering a glimmer of hope.

    Rob Larter, a marine geophysicist with the British Antarctic Survey, said in London on Thursday that it's incredibly difficult to find an object the size of the Titan in a totally dark environment. He says it's not going to be found with active sonar from a surface ship, but rather with a towed or autonomous vehicle that's near the seafloor. Even those vehicles can see just a matter of meters.

    "I've been involved in searches for hydrothermal vent sites," he said. "We've have the vehicles just a few tens of meters away and missed them and then come back and find them. So it really is, you know, literally it's just a needle in a haystack situation unless you've got a pretty precise location"

    Jamie Pringle, an expert in forensic geosciences at Keele University in the United Kingdom says the first 24 hours are critical in these kinds of rescue operations and that time period has long passed.

    "So there's always a chance. It's never zero. But I think obviously the longer the time elapses, the lower the chance of success," he said.

    Larter called it a "desperate situation" buy says you try to stay optimistic as long as possible.

    "It's kind of unimaginable if people are alive, trapped in a submersible with oxygen supplies running down," he said.

    THE SEARCH FOR THE SUBMERSIBLE IS NEARING THE CRITICAL 96-HOUR MARK

    This undated image provided by OceanGate Expeditions in June 2021 shows the company's Titan submersible. (OceanGate Expeditions via AP, File)

    The search is nearing the critical 96-hour mark when breathable air is expected to run out, reaching a vital moment in the intense effort to save the five people aboard.

    The Titan submersible was estimated to have a 96-hour supply of breathable air when it launched Sunday morning in the North Atlantic. That means the deadline to find and rescue the sub is roughly between 6 a.m. (1000 GMT) and 8 a.m. (1200 GMT) on Thursday based on estimates the U.S. Coast Guard and company behind the expedition have provided.

    Experts say that the oxygen supply number is an imprecise estimate and could be extended if passengers have taken measures to conserve breathable air. And it's not known if they survived since the sub disappeared Sunday morning.

    Officials have expanded the coverage area to thousands of miles -- twice the size of Connecticut and in waters 2 1/2 miles deep. Airplanes, ships, remote-operated underwater vehicles and a U.S. Navy-owned specialized salvage system have been deployed, concentrating where unidentified noises had been heard for two days. The noises raised hopes of a possible discovery.

    TITAN SEARCHERS FACE UNDERWATER CHALLENGES TO FIND SUBMERSIBLE

    Underwater mountains and valleys. Deep-sea water pressure. Weather conditions. And a search area twice the size of Connecticut -- in waters 2 1/2 miles (4 kilometers) deep -- with few clues about the Titan's location.

    The crews tasked with finding the Titan, which was reported overdue Sunday night, are facing all those challenges and more to locate the submersible amid the North Atlantic waters.

    While undersea search efforts are nothing new -- a 2019 expedition found two lost Japanese aircraft carriers that went down in World War II's historic Battle of Midway around the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands -- looking for the 22-foot-long (6.7-meter) carbon-fiber vessel amid the vast ocean is far more difficult than finding a needle in a haystack.

    Those Japanese aircraft carriers were exponentially larger than the Titan -- and still they were lost for decades after the June 1942 air and sea battle.

    "I've seen large vessels hiding within extreme geology so searching for smaller objects requires more detailed scrutiny as opposed to searching for a sunken (cruiser) or aircraft carrier," wrote Robert Kraft, a deep-sea explorer who was part of the 2019 expedition, in an email to The Associated Press from aboard his latest voyage.

    SOUND MAY HELP, OR HINDER, SEARCH FOR MISSING SUBMERSIBLE

    Teams racing to find the missing Titan submersible have detected underwater noises in the search area. But it won't be easy to find the source of that sound in the "noisy" ocean.

    There are many other potential sources of sound underwater, including from fish, other animals and of course human-made instruments, according to Matt Dzieciuch, an ocean acoustics expert at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

    While the Coast Guard said search teams heard banging noises at 30-minute intervals, it's still unclear whether the banging noises were a true signal of life.

    Usually, an underwater vehicle will have a device called a pinger that can correspond with the surface and make it easier to locate, Dzieciuch said. But it's unclear whether the Titan submersible was using one.

    The search team is facing additional challenges because sound gets bent as it travels underwater, due to how pressure and temperature change at different depths, Dzieciuch said. That can create echo-like effects and make it hard to locate the source of a particular sound.

    TITAN FACED PROBLEMS DURING PREVIOUS VOYAGES

    Since its first expedition to the Titanic shipwreck in the summer of 2021, the Titan's crews encountered problems aboard the submersible, including issues with its electrical system and battery, according to documents filed in a federal court in Virginia that oversees matters involving the Titanic shipwreck.

    The issues during the first expedition were mostly electrical problems that were "solved as they came up," according to the documents filed by OceanGate Expeditions, the undersea exploration company that commanded the Titan's missions.

    Ultimately, 18 of the submersible's crew members explored the wreck site for the first time in 2021, the filing stated. Others, such as Paul-Henry Nargeolet, had already traveled to the site.

    Nargeolet co-piloted four dives in 2021 and is one of the five people missing since the submersible vanished Sunday on its latest dive to the Titanic wreck.

    The 2022 expedition brought more problems to the Titan.

    "On the first dive to the Titanic, the submersible encountered a battery issue and had to be manually attached to its lifting platform," the company wrote in another filing. "In the high sea state, the submersible sustained modest damage to its external components and OceanGate decided to cancel the second mission for "repairs and operational enhancements."

    TITAN EXPEDITION FEATURED MULTIPLE MISSIONS TO SHIPWRECK

    A search for the missing submarine is being conducted in a remote part of the Atlantic Ocean about 1,450 kilometres off Cape Cod.

    The Titan's voyage this month was one of several missions the submersible took to the Titanic's wreck site in recent weeks.

    The entire expedition began in early May in St. John's, Newfoundland in Canada and was expected to last until the end of June, according to documents filed in a federal court in Virginia that oversees matters involving the Titanic shipwreck.

    Each mission lasted eight days, but it was not clear how many missions had taken place before the fateful trip -- or how many were scheduled to occur afterward. Eighteen total dives were planned.

    An Instagram photo posted by OceanGate Expeditions, the undersea exploration company that commanded the Titan's missions, showed a group of smiling people labeled as "our Mission 3 and Mission 4 crew" at sea just days before the Titan vanished on Sunday -- the first day of its latest voyage.

     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

    UNDERSEA EXPLORATION ROBOTS CRITICAL IN SEARCH FOR MISSING SUBMERSIBLE

    Remote-operated robots that are typically used for undersea exploration will instead be critical to any hope of finding the Titan.

    There were two such remotely operated vehicles -- or ROVs -- in North Atlantic waters on Wednesday, with more on the way.

    Designed to scan the sea floor in real time, the ROVs are outfitted with cameras and travel to depths many other vessels cannot.

    ROVs have been used for undersea exploration since at least the mid-1980s, according to deep-sea explorer Katy Croff Bell, who is president of Ocean Discovery League.

    The vessels are expensive to use and their method of data collection can be slow and painstaking, which is partly why scientists know so little about the ocean floor even after years of exploration.

    But the ROVs might be the only way to find the Titan after the submersible vanished Sunday on a dive to the wreckage of the Titanic.

    "ROVs are essential to the search and rescue mission," Bell said. "Really the only way you're going to be able to recover anything from the deep sea floor in real time."

    SIMPLE VIDEO GAME CONTROLLER USED TO STEER TITAN

    The Titan is steered by a simple, off-the-shelf video game controller -- to the shock of gamers worldwide.

    It's not the only commercially available equipment onboard the submersible, according to OceanGate Expeditions' website.

    "The use (of) off-the-shelf components helped to streamline the construction, and makes it simple to operate and replace parts in the field," the company said on its website.

    The undersea exploration company, based in Everett, Washington, oversaw the Titan's mission and has been making yearly voyages to the Titanic since 2021.

    OceanGate chief executive Stockton Rush, in an interview with the CBC last year, said the video game controller is "super durable." There are spare controllers kept onboard, but is not clear whether the submersible also had manual controls or other redundancies.

    "It's meant for a 16 year old to throw it around," said Rush, who is the Titan's pilot and among the five people missing.

    Documents show the company was repeatedly warned that there might be catastrophic safety problems posed by the way the submersible was developed.

    OceanGate's Titan submersible is made of carbon fibre and titanium. It weighs 9,525 kilograms and can reach a depth of up to 4,000 metres in the ocean. The submersible can also carry a payload weight of 685 kg and contains 96 hours of "life support" for a crew of five. (Graphic: Jasna Baric / CTVNews)

    SPECIALIZED UNDERWATER VESSEL FLOWN FOR SEA FLOOR SEARCH

    The daunting search and rescue effort for the Titan is rushing experts and specialized underwater equipment together by land, by air and by sea to find the submersible before its oxygen runs out.

    A remotely operated vehicle that can scan the sea floor, known as an ROV, was flown to Canada on Tuesday and is expected to arrive at the Titanic site on Thursday morning.

    "The equipment that is onsite and coming is the most sophisticated in the world and certainly capable of reaching those depths," said Sean Leet, chief executive of Canadian Horizon Maritime company.

    The company and the Mi'kmaq band co-own the Polar Prince, which is the research vessel that launched the Titan.

    The Polar Prince ship is seen while moored in Vancouver, B.C., Oct. 23, 2017. OceanGate hired the Polar Prince to ferry dozens of people and the submersible craft to the North Atlantic wreck site. (Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press via AP)

    "We are praying for our friends onboard the Titan submersible," said Miawpukek First Nation Chief Mi'sel Joe. "We want them to come home safely. We ask everyone across Canada and the world to pray with us that we can find and rescue the Titan."

    U.S. NAVY SENDING EQUIPMENT FOR POSSIBLE SALVAGE

    The U.S. Navy is sending a specialized salvage system that's capable of hoisting "large, bulky and heavy undersea objects such as aircraft or small vessels" in the hopes that the Titan will be found in the waters of the North Atlantic.

    The Titan weighs 20,000 pounds (more than 9,000 kilograms). The U.S. Navy's Flyaway Deep Ocean Salvage System is designed to lift up to 60,000 pounds (27,215 kilograms), the Navy said on its website.

    The Flyaway has a traction winch as well as a system that prevents "high-snap tension" from occurring in the lift line.

    PASSENGER ON 2021 DIVE TO TITANIC DESCRIBES RISKS

    Arthur Loibl, one of the submersible company Oceangate's first customers, holds up a photo of the Titanic, in Straubing, Germany, June 21, 2023. (Armin Weigel/dpa via AP)

    Looking back on his own 2021 dive to the Titanic, an early OceanGate passenger says one must be "a little bit crazy."

    Arthur Loibl, a retired businessman and adventurer from Germany, told The Associated Press on Wednesday that he conceived the idea to see the Titanic while on a 2016 trip to the South Pole. He paid $110,000 for a dive in 2019, but the first submersible didn't survive testing. Loibl went two years later.

    "Imagine a metal tube, a few meters long with a sheet of metal for a floor. You can't stand, you can't kneel. Everyone is sitting close to or on top of each other," Loibl said. "You can't be claustrophobic."

    The dive, which was repeatedly delayed to fix problems, took 10 1/2 hours, he said.

    Lost aboard the vessel are pilot Stockton Rush, the CEO of the company leading the expedition. His passengers are a British adventurer, two members of a Pakistani business family and a Titanic expert.

    "I was a bit naive, looking back now," said Loibl.

    COAST GUARD BRINGS IN MORE SHIPS FOR SEARCH

    The Coast Guard says it is bringing in more ships and underwater vessels to search for a submersible missing in the North Atlantic after underwater sounds were detected, providing a glimmer of hope three days after the Titan disappeared while taking five people down to the wreck of the Titanic.

    Although the exact location and source of the sounds were not yet determined, they allowed searchers to focus on a more narrowly defined area. The full scope of the search was twice the size of Connecticut and 2 1/2 miles (4 kilometers) deep, said Capt. Jamie Frederick of the First Coast Guard District.

    "This is a search and rescue mission, 100%," Frederick said. "When you're in the middle of a search and rescue case, you always have hope."

    But even those who expressed some optimism warned that many obstacles remain: from pinpointing the vessel's location, to reaching it with rescue equipment, to bringing it to the surface -- assuming it's still intact -- before the passengers' oxygen supply runs out.

    The U.S. Coast Guard did not elaborate on what rescuers believe the noises could be. The vessel hasn't been heard from since Sunday. The passengers are estimated to have as little as a day's worth of oxygen left.

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    Ten-thousand hand-knit poppies were taken from the Sanctuary Arts Centre and displayed on the fence surrounding the Dartmouth Cenotaph on Monday.

    A Vancouver man is saying goodbye to his nine-to-five and embarking on a road trip from the Canadian Arctic to Antarctica.

    • Weather watchers were treated to an exceptionally rare display on Friday evening as rare cloud formations filled Vancouver skies.

    • For some shoppers it was Nov. 1, but for others the first hints of Christmas - saccharine treats, festive-fragranced candles and gaudily wrapped gift sets - were being noticed in stores long before the final Halloween decor had been cleared.

    • Thousands of people are expected to gather in downtown Vancouver on Monday to observe the city鈥檚 100th Remembrance Day ceremony.

    • Toronto is expected to see an economic boost to the tune of nearly $300 million thanks to Taylor Swift鈥檚 upcoming Eras Tour, which will be making a stop in Canada鈥檚 largest city for a six-show run later this month.

    • One man was transported to hospital early Monday morning after a stabbing in the northwest end of the city, Toronto police say.

    • Calgarians will be observing Remembrance Day at a number of different ceremonies across the city, including at the Hangar Flight Museum.

    • A home in the northeast Calgary community of Saddle Ridge was damaged in a fire on Sunday.

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      Conditions were warm early Monday and expected to remain that way for most of the day.

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      CTVNewsOttawa.ca looks at Remembrance Day ceremonies in Ottawa.

    • After months of controversy surrounding a dog park in Ottawa's west end, a solution has been reached to divide the park in half.

    • With fewer interments and rising maintenance fees, the money for Canada's largest military cemetery will run out in three to four years.

    • The employers association at the Port of Montreal locked out nearly 1,200 longshore workers, bringing a halt to traffic at the port.

    • Though most businesses are expected to be open on Remembrance Day, there are some establishments that will be closed to commemorate the holiday.

    • Monday is Remembrance Day, a time to honour armed forces members who have died in the line of duty.

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      This is shaping up to be one of the warmest Remembrance Days in the past decade, at least, for temperatures.

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      Maritimers will stop Monday to remember those who have served, and continue to serve, in Canada's armed forces for Remembrance Day.

    • A Cape Breton senior recalls her life in German-occupied France, and her mother鈥檚 death, during the Second World War.

    • Thousand of people gathered at the Menin Gate in the Ypres, Belgium for Monday鈥檚 Remembrance Day Ceremony.

    • Remembrance Day is today, and a number of ceremonies are taking place around the province to honour those who gave their lives to serve our country.

    • A pillar in Canada鈥檚 history was honoured in Winnipeg Sunday afternoon, with thousands showing up to pay tribute to the life and legacy of the late Murray Sinclair.

    • Winnipeg police have identified two men involved in a stabbing incident earlier this week.

    • There will be two ceremonies taking place in Regina for Remembrance Day, hosted by the Royal Canadian Legion.

    • Regina author Valerie Crowther is celebrating the release of her book 鈥榃ar Letters: Linking Lives in the Second World War.鈥

    • It was a somber day at Mosaic Stadium as members of the Saskatchewan Roughriders officially cleaned out their stalls and closed the book on the 2024 season.

    • A team of tornado experts is heading to Fergus after a storm ripped through the area Sunday night.

    • People across Canada will pause to reflect Monday at Remembrance Day Ceremonies across the country.

    • A man has been charged after a stabbing at an apartment building in Kitchener.

    • Saskatchewan RCMP are searching for a suspect after a man was seriously injured in a farm-related incident in Montreal Lake.

    • It was a somber day at Mosaic Stadium as members of the Saskatchewan Roughriders officially cleaned out their stalls and closed the book on the 2024 season.

    • The Regina Rams claimed the Hardy Cup after a hard fought battle against the Saskatoon Huskies 19-14 on Saturday in the first all Saskatchewan U-Sports western conference final since 2002.

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      The events will start at 10:15 a.m. with a parade that forms up in front of the Delta London Armories, marches east on Dundas Street and turns north onto Waterloo Street to Dufferin Avenue, the west to the Cenotaph.

    • Emergency crews responded to the scene on Road 68/Highway 2 east of Thamesford around 7 p.m.

    • On Friday, the Sarnia Police Service (SPS) received a report of an alleged abduction in the area of Kathleen Avenue and Walnut Avenue.

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      Barrie residents will gather on Monday to honour Canada鈥檚 veterans and pay tribute to those who served and sacrificed for the country.

    • A driver is facing multiple charges after a multi-vehicle collision on Highway 400 early Sunday morning.

    • A group of former NHL players faced off against York Regional Police officers in Newmarket Sunday afternoon to raise funds for Special Olympics programs across the province.

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      Representatives of the Windsor Veterans Memorial Services Committee, military representatives, wreath bearers, government officials, and members of the public will attend the Cenotaph at City Hall Square for the outdoor service.

    • One person has been arrested after Chatham-Kent Police Service (CKPS) received multiple complaints about an alleged drunk driver.

    • More details have been released about a police investigation at the Ambassador Bridge that connects Windsor, Ont. and Detroit, MI.

    • Environment Canada says heavy rain and winds could cause power outages on Vancouver Island as an "intense" storm system is set to hit the B.C. coast Sunday.

    • Six deer were struck by vehicles in six different locations in a six-hour period on B.C. highways on Saturday, according to the transportation ministry.

    • The union for locked-out port workers in British Columbia says the BC Maritime Employers Association cut off talks in less than an hour Saturday, refusing to budge on a final offer that the union has so far rejected.

    • The emergency department at South Okanagan General Hospital in Oliver, B.C., will be closed for 31 hours this weekend, the second such closure in a week and the third since the start of November.

    • Police in Kamloops, B.C., are reminding parents and guardians to check their children's Halloween candy after receiving a report of a mother finding a razor blade in one of her daughter's treats.

    • More than two years after Alannah Brown and Douglas Barker were found dead north of Penticton, police are asking for help identifying a vehicle they believe was associated with the crime.

    • The Southern Alberta Recreation Association is officially announcing the Town of Taber as next year鈥檚 host for the Southern Alberta Summer Games.

    • The Lethbridge Hurricanes broke open a close game with three goals in the first two minutes of the third period as they defeated the Warriors 7-3 in a game played Friday night in Moose Jaw.

    • There might not a lot snow just yet, but many southern Albertans are still itching to get outdoors.

    • It was just days before the COVID-19 pandemic shut the world down when the Shaft Bottom Boys of Sudbury broke a world record for 'Deepest Concert Underground.' Now, more than four years later, a Timmins band is looking to take the title.

    • Police have arrested a 15-year-old in connection with a break-in and $50,000 in damage done to the Centennial Arena in Elliot Lake in September.

    • Mayors of the five largest cities in northern Ontario met in North Bay the last two days to discuss a range of critical issues impacting their cities and the region.

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