The Latest Breaking News from the US Coast Guard

Princeton graduate and Titan submarine entrepreneur insisted Atlantic dives were not dangerous and once said: ‘At some point, safety just is pure waste. If you just want to be safe, don’t get out of bed’

University student Suleman Dawood is believed dead alongside his father Shahzada, the sub's pilot and chief executive Stockton Rush, British businessman and explorer Hamish Harding and French national Paul-Henri Nargeolet

Azmeh Dawood told NBC News that her nephew only agreed to go on the expedition because it was important to his father

Hamish Harding was on board the vessel headed towards the Titanic shipwreck along with four other passengers when it is believed to have imploded in the Atlantic Ocean

Mark Hannaford, Explorers Club member, shared a text which Hamish Harding sent to him before the dive began in Titan.

All five passengers on the missing Titan submersible have now been declared dead, and it is understood the vessel imploded following a "catastrophic failure" amid a journey off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada

The US Coast Guard believes a "catastrophic implosion" occurred

The finds on the sea floor are ‘consistent with a catastrophic implosion of the vessel’.

Rear Admiral John Mauger said there did not appear to be any connection between the underwater noises detected and the location of the debris.

The submersible that went missing during a tourist expedition to the Titanic imploded near the wreckage, killing all five people on board, the US Coast Guard said Thursday, bringing a grim end to a massive international search for the vessel.

OceanGate Expeditions, the company behind the journey, confirmed that the Titan submersible's pilot and chief executive Stockton Rush – along with UK citizens Hamish Harding, Shahzada Dawood and his 19-year-old son Suleman Dawood and French national Paul-Henri Nargeolet "have sadly been lost"