debris from the vessel discovered not far from the crew s planned destimation, the wreckage of the tay tannic. we have deep sea experts standing by. we ll also be taking a closer look at the five people onboard whose families and friends are now grieving. we ll be joined by guests who knew several of the passengers and understood their love of exploration and adventure. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. wolf blitzer is off today. i m alex marquardt, and you re in the situation room. tonight the coast guard says it is continuing its investigation of the submersible and its implosion. the discovery of debris confirming everyone s worst fears, that the underwater expedition to see the ruins of the titanic had a disastrous end. our correspondents are at key locations covering the story from every angle. first, i want to go to miguel marquez who s in newfoundland. the debris field was found just off the coast of canada where you are just
verify the images that they saw in the sonar imagery and decide whether or not it is or not what they re looking for and potentially use grippers to attach lifting straps and connect those to a lifting line and bring those to the surface. captain, the coast guard was listening closely, and they say that listening devices did not hear any signs of catastrophic failure of that catastrophic implosion. what does that tell you about the timing of this implosion and this accident? it just tells me that they didn t start the search until after it imploded. so that s no mystery. but the question is that s sort of a sensitive area as far as national security, and there s i can t believe that there s no underwater acoustic devices down there to have caught that, military ones, probably classified. you know, the titanic isn t all
this as indonesian authorities focus on pin pointing the exact location of airasia flight 8501 officials confirming sonar imagery located wreckage believed to be if the aircraft submerged at the bottom of the java sea. what s going to be of particular interest is what part of the airplane are there, the wings, the tail just to sort of try to understand whether the plane broke up in flight or remained intact. other reports suggest the plane may be lying upside-down according to the wall street journal. on tuesday recovery team brings in pieces of debris along with the remains of seven victims. a gruesome task recovering more bodies and identifying them. but some still hold on to hope one woman with six family members aboard tells cnn, there s nothing confirmed with
most of them have come to terms with the fact that their loved ones did not survive that terrible accident. right now there s no longer a mystery about where this plane went down. there s still plenty of mystery about why it went down. this morning, the first group of recovered passengers arriving in surabaya in an emotional ceremony in caskets marked 001 and 002. this is indonesian authorities focus on pinpointing the exact location of airasia flight 8501. officials confirming sonar imagery located wreckage believed to be from the aircraft, sun merged at the wot bottom of the java sea. what parts of the airplane are there, the wings, the tile to understand whether the plane broke up in flight or remained intact. reporter: others reports suggest the plane may be lying