Experts have retrieved presumed human remains from the Titan sub, which imploded during a dive to the Atlantic.
This was disclosed by the US Coast Guard after retrieving wreckages of the Titan submersible.
“United States medical professionals will conduct a formal analysis of presumed human remains that have been carefully recovered,” the agency said.
According to the organisation, the debris will now be transported onboard a US Coast Guard cutter to a US port for additional analysis.
On board were British adventurer Hamish Harding, French submarine expert Paul-Henri Nargeolet, Pakistani-British tycoon Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman, and Stockton Rush, CEO of OceanGate Expeditions, which operates the sub.
They were presumably killed instantly when the Titan sub, roughly the size of an SUV, imploded at a depth of more than two miles beneath the crushing pressure of the North Atlantic.