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"... The U.S. Navy conducted an analysis of acoustic data and detected an anomaly consistent with an implosion or explosion in the general vicinity of where the Titan submersible was operating when communications were lost," a senior U.S. Navy official told the Journal. "While not definitive, this information was immediately shared with the Incident Commander to assist with the ongoing search and rescue mission."
A senior Navy official told the Washington Post the service does not usually make the information public until the search for survivors ends conclusively. Until then, it's nothing more than a "data point."
The fact that the Navy detected the sounds — and withheld the information from the public for five days wasn't surprising given the US's decades-long history of using devices to detect underwater activity, Mark Cancian, a senior adviser with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, told the Post.
"I would be surprised if they hadn't heard it," he said."They suspected what happened but couldn't be sure. What you're looking at is just lines on a graph. And if you try to convince people you weren't doing a search because the lines on a graph indicated an implosion, that wouldn't be acceptable to many ..."
The Navy first detected the Titan sub's implosion soon after it went missing: WSJ
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A senior Navy official told the Washington Post the service does not usually make the information public until the search for survivors ends conclusively. Until then, it's nothing more than a "data point."
The fact that the Navy detected the sounds — and withheld the information from the public for five days wasn't surprising given the US's decades-long history of using devices to detect underwater activity, Mark Cancian, a senior adviser with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, told the Post.
"I would be surprised if they hadn't heard it," he said."They suspected what happened but couldn't be sure. What you're looking at is just lines on a graph. And if you try to convince people you weren't doing a search because the lines on a graph indicated an implosion, that wouldn't be acceptable to many ..."
The Navy first detected the Titan sub's implosion soon after it went missing: WSJ
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