The billionaire French diver who died in the submersible Titan is said to have spent two decades working with a company that has the sole right to retrieve and display artifacts from the Titanic wreck site.

Paul-Henri Nargeolet, one of five submariners and the best Titanic diver in history, led five expeditions for private salvage company RMS Titanic Inc to collect more than 5,000 artifacts from the wreck. ship, according to Insider.

Artifacts include anything between a shaving kit and an onboard chandelier.

A teenager who died on the Titan submersible with his father brought a Rubik’s cube on board in an attempt to break a world record, his mother said.

Suleman Dawood, 19, died aboard the Titan with his father, Shahzada, last week when the ship exploded.

Suleman’s mother, Christine Dawood, told the BBC that her son “isn’t going anywhere without a Rubik’s Cube” and has entered the Guinness World Records.

“He said, ‘I’m going to solve the Rubik’s Cube 3,700 meters under the sea on the Titanic’.”

“He’s very excited about this.”

Text messages revealed how the OceanGate CEO tried to convince a Las Vegas investor to make the trip to the Titanic aboard the company’s dying submersible at a reduced rate with claims alarming for its safety level.

Jay Bloom, an investor in Las Vegas, revealed in a Facebook post that he turned down Stockton Rush CEO and founder’s offer of a seat on a Titan submersible trip due to safety concerns.

independenceAriana Baio’s report:

The US Coast Guard said the priority in the investigation into the fatal Titanic’s sinking explosion was “recovery of items from the seabed”.

All five people on board the OceanGate Titan submersible were killed when it dived into the wreck in the Atlantic Ocean last week.

The Coast Guard opened a maritime investigation on Friday and is working with the FBI to salvage debris from the seabed more than two miles below the surface.

A remotely operated vehicle (ROV) discovered Titan debris about 1,600 feet from the bow of the ship several days after it lost contact with the mother ship about 1 hour and 45 minutes after diving.

Perhaps the group has managed to surface and is waiting for rescue amid the waves of the Atlantic. They were probably trapped underwater in the broken hull of the submersible and out of air.

On Thursday, those worst fears were confirmed after the US Coast Guard announced that it had found debris from the Titan submersible scattered on the ocean floor a few feet from the nose of the sea. The ill-fated ship was about 1,600 feet.

But what exactly caused Titan to explode? While we don’t yet know the truth of what happened, we do know enough to have some idea of ​​what may have sealed the submarine’s fate.

independence’s Io Dodds reports:

The desperate search for the missing Titanic came to a tragic end when debris was discovered deep on the ocean floor, but we still don’t know many important aspects of the fateful voyage.

independence‘S Rachel Sharp, Io Dodds And Bevan Hurley report:

The US Coast Guard said on Thursday that it will continue to search for debris from the Titan submersible – even after hopes of finding survivors have ended.

The US Coast Guard said the pressure chamber, nose cone, front bell and rear bell were found on two pieces of debris.

However, it remains unclear whether the remains of the structure will be recovered and brought to the surface.

The US Navy’s Flyaway Deep Ocean Salvage System (FADOSS) is capable of recovering items weighing up to 60,000 lb from the ocean and has been deployed to the area. While it is capable of recovering debris, it remains to be seen whether officials will do so once it is no longer on a rescue mission.

Christine Dawood said she and her 17-year-old daughter Alina were on the Polar Prince when the tragedy struck.

In a startling series of interviews on Thursday, James Cameron revealed that he knew the extremely sensitive details of the Titan search and rescue mission days before it was made public.

Cameron learned that the US Navy’s top secret listening devices detected an explosion near the wreck of the Titanic within an hour of it happening on Monday, and has since described the search. five crew members is a “nightmare charade”.

He also claimed that the Titan’s crew would know that the submersible’s hull had begun to crack and was trying to surface when the “catastrophic explosion” occurred.