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The remains of those who died on the Titan submersible were returned to the families three years later.

2026-05-01

Not much remains, so to speak

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[Regnum] The remains of those killed in the Titan submersible disaster have been returned to the families of those killed, nearly three years after the accident. This was reported by The Guardian on April 30.

"The bodies were returned in small containers," said Christine Dawood, the widow of Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and mother of his 19-year-old son, Suleiman, who died on the Titan.

She described what she saw as "mush."

Ewwwww….

She explained that the bodies were severely mangled due to the enormous pressure at a depth of almost 4 km.

The woman added that it took experts months to conduct a DNA analysis, but some of the biological material was so mixed that it was never possible to determine who exactly it belonged to.

The bathyscaphe Titan, owned by the American company OceanGate, sank on June 18, 2023, during a dive to the wreckage of the Titanic, which sank in 1912. Contact with the crew was lost 1 hour and 45 minutes into the expedition.

There were five people on board the apparatus: in addition to Shahzada and Suleiman Davudov, there were OceanGate founder and executive director Stockton Rush, British billionaire Hamish Harding, and French aquanaut Paul-Henri Narjol.

In September 2024, the BBC reported that the Titan crew had sent an "all is well" signal shortly before the tragedy. The final message stated that the submersible had dropped two ballast weights, after which contact was permanently lost.

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