The US Coast Guard’s Marine Board of Investigation (MBI) into the loss of the Titan submersible concluded today with testimony from two Coast Guard search-and-recovery personnel, Captain Jamie Frederick and Scott Talbot.
They described the Coast Guard’s response after the Titan went missing on a dive to the Titanic wreck on Sunday, June 18, 2023. This was the Coast Guard’s first subsurface search-and-rescue operation for at least 30 years, said Frederick, and “if OceanGate had a rescue plan, it was never presented to us.”
The Coast Guard was nevertheless able to quickly mobilize flights over the Titanic area, with some aircraft deploying sonar buoys, which detected knocking noises underwater. On Monday,