Canada investigates sinking near Titanic
Canadian authorities on Saturday began investigating the crash of the Titan, a private submarine that went missing in the North Atlantic near the Titanic wreck with five people aboard.
The Polar Prince boat while searching for a missing submarine.
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Canada’s Transportation Safety Board (TSB) has “launched a safety investigation (…) into the fatal incident involving the Polar Prince,” its chairwoman Cathy Fox announced Saturday after the Canadian small tourist boat drowned on Sunday.
He said such an inquiry usually takes 18 to 24 months, but the BST will “try to go faster because we know that everyone needs answers, especially families”. A TSB team has arrived in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador and is “examining the scene and wreckage, interviewing witnesses and gathering all relevant information,” he added.
Two open inquiries
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada is the agency responsible for investigating aviation, rail and marine accidents with the goal of improving transportation safety. It does not comment on any civil or criminal liability. Second, a separate investigation was launched by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP).
Kent Osmond, an RCMP officer in Newfoundland and Labrador, announced Saturday that its investigators are “beginning to examine the circumstances that led to the deaths of the five people on board the submarine.” The latter should make it possible to assess “whether or not the RCMP’s full investigation was fair”, he pointed out, adding that “such an investigation will only be undertaken if an examination of the circumstances indicates that federal criminal laws or provincial laws may have been breached”.
Five passengers aboard the scientific tourism submarine Titan, which went missing in the Atlantic on Sunday, died in a “catastrophic explosion” of the ship, the US Coast Guard announced Thursday.
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