Families mourn passengers killed in Titanic sub implosion

Tributes are pouring in for the five men who have been confirmed dead in the missing Titan sub. 

A massive international search was launched when on Sunday, the Titan sub en route to the wreck of the Titanic lost contact with its ship. 

The victims included three British nationals, including a father and son. Briton Hamish Harding, 58, Shahzada Dawood, 48, and his son Suleman Dawood, 19, Frenchman Paul-Henri Nargeolet, 77. They were onboard the sub which was being piloted by the company behind the trip’s CEO Stockton Rush, 61. 

US officials say the men were killed in a “catastrophic implosion.” 

Their families have expressed their “profound grief” and paid tribute to their loved ones. 

The end of the search came when a robotic diving vehicle found major fragments of the sub on the Ocean Floor about 1,600ft from the Titanic shipwreck. Officials say it’s unknown if the bodies will ever be located. 

Since news broke, it has emerged the US Navy originally detected “an acoustic anomaly consistent with an implosion” shortly after the Titan lost contact on Sunday.