WASHINGTON — The U.S. Coast Guard informed the families of the Titan crew that the Navy had detected a sound consistent with an implosion in the area the submersible went missing before that sound became public knowledge Thursday evening, a defense official said Friday.
The Navy was able to detect what turned out to be the implosion of the Titan submersible by use of the Sound Surveillance System , originally a Cold-War-era system designed to track Soviet submarines, the official said.
After analyzing the sound, the Navy determined it was consistent with either an implosion or explosion, and was able to triangulate its location to area where the sub had lost communications. The Navy immediately passed its findings on to the Coast Guard, according to the official. "This information was considered with the compilation of additional acoustic data provided by other partners and the decision was made to continue our mission as a search and rescue and make every effort to save the lives on board," a senior Navy official said in a statement Thursday.
The official emphasized that the Coast Guard took care to inform the families of the Navy's discovery before it was known to the public.
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