welcome to the whole story. i m anderson cooper in st. john s, newfoundland. titanic set out from here traveling 400 miles to the site of the title 42 for a ten-hour journey two miles below the ocean surface to explore the wreckage. there were five people onboard. less than two hours after their descent they stopped communicating with the parent ship. the u.s. navy detected a sound that could have been an implosion in area and reportedly forwarded that information to the incident commander. that was not released publicly. if the titan was still in act, rescuers needed to find it quickly because it had 96 hours of oxygen onboard. over the next hour, step by step through the five-day search for missing submersible, everything we know about what happened to the titan and its passengers, the risks of going so far down into the ocean and the warnings that had been raised about the titan submersible. just into cnn, a deep sea search and rescue mission with life-or-death con
sub is safe. in addition to p.h., stockton rush was among the missing, as he was hamish harding. also a british citizen from pakistan shahzada dawood. he brought his 19-year-old son suleman along for the adventure. up next, a massive search of a massive stretch of ocean. absolutely is a needle in a haystack. and i liked how they weren t actors. they just seemed like people that were just happy with themselves and had true results. since being on golo, i truly feel like i m back to the best me i can be. try golo. it worked for me, and i m real. (soft music)
it doesn t feel good at the moment. they know what debris is down there. they know what other missions have left behind. they know what the titanic looks like down there. so they must have seen something that was different. what they saw convinced oceangate to release a statement that its crew aboard titan was gone. we now believe that our ceo stockton rush, shahzada dawood and his son suleman dawood, hamish harding and paul-henri nargeolet have sadly been lost. u.s. coast guard rear admiral john mauger confirmed the worst. an rov, or remote operated vehicle from the vessel horizon arctic discovered the tail cone of the titan submersible approximately 1600 feet from the bow of the titanic on the sea floor. the debris is consistent with
oceangate expeditions offers you the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be a especially trained crew member diving to the titanic wreckage site. the chance to travel to the site of a storied 100-year-old disaster would be just the type of opportunity billionaire adventurer hamish harding couldn t pass up. this guy had such a zest for life. i climbed kilimanjaro with him. he know he went to the mariana trench, the deepest place on earth in a submersible. and he gone to space as part of jeff bezos blue origin process. space was amazing. i loved it. on saturday, june 17th, the 58-year-old brit posted on instagram, i am proud to finally announce that i joined oceangate expeditions for their rms titanic mission as a mission specialist on the sub going down to the titanic. we are going to attempt a dive
harding. i am in a whatsapp chat group and i knew he was in it. so i said, hey, you know, hamish, how is the dive? and someone who is close to him responded and said that they lost communications with the sub an hour and 45 minutes in. we are very scared. i was organizing some paperwork when a friend called and said turn on news right away. i knew that my good friend, colleague, fellow explorer p.h. nargeolet was onboard that expedition. but i didn t know if he was one of the people in the submarine. this is paul-henri nargeolet, or p.h. as he preferred to be called, in an oceangate promotional video. it s very well done because it s simple. we found out that p.h. nargeolet was in the sub. a veteran explorer. in france they call him mr. titanic. he told me more than once, this