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U.S. Coast Guard says ‘presumed human remains’ found in Titan wreckage

The safety board said the support vessel’s voyage data recorder has been sent to a lab in Ottawa for analysis.
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This photo provided by OceanGate Expeditions shows the submersible vessel named Titan used to visit the wreckage site of the Titanic. A vessel that had been searching for debris from the ill-fated Titan submersible has returned to port in St. John’s, N.L. The Canadian-flagged Horizon Arctic is carrying a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) that carried out a search of the ocean floor not far from the wreck of the Titanic, about 700 kilometres south of Newfoundland. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-OceanGate Expeditions via AP

The United States Coast Guard says “presumed human remains” have been found in the wreckage of the Titan submersible.

Debris from the ill-fated submersible was returned to shore on Wednesday in Newfoundland aboard a Canadian-flagged ship that had helped search for the vessel in a remote area of ocean near the wreck of the Titanic.

The Horizon Arctic docked at the port in St.

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