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Experts share their perspectives on what caused the deadly implosion of the submersible that went on its final expedition to the Titanic wreck on Sunday with five people on board

Businessman Shahzada Dawood, 48, and teenager Suleman Dawood, 19, died 'hand-in-hand' onboard the Titan submersible confmred lost yesterday, their heartbroken family has said

Dahlgren in boston once again for us. robert mester. what do we know about what theyre doing now? what does this effort look like? >> reporter: right, and were learning more about that today. the u.s. coast guard is going to be taking the lead in the investigation we just learned today, and theyve also asked the ntsb for help as well, so a u.s.-led effort. currently those rovs that were searching the bottom for any signs of submersible continue to comb through that debris field running patterns,...

Into gathering the data and information that we need to make determinations about our own planet. people never realize this planet is 4/5 water, and we know less about it than we do the moon or other -- mars or soon to be other planets in the universe or in our solar system for sure. >> robert mester, thank you, kristen dahlgren we appreciate your ongoing reporting. i want to bring in john pascal who lost his stepfather, paul henri. im so sorry for your loss. how important is it for you to fin...

“It wouldn’t take much of a failure to cause an implosion, and it would have been instantaneous,” Robert Mester told The Daily Beast.

“It wouldn’t take much of a failure to cause an implosion, and it would have been instantaneous,” Robert Mester told The Daily Beast.

Photo illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/ReutersWhen OceanGate Inc. offered Robert Mester a voyage aboard the Antipodes, a predecessor to the Titan, the privately operated five-person submersible that imploded while descending to the wreckage of the Titanic, he politely begged off the expedition.“They were using off-the-shelf hardware from Radio Shack to operate inside, and quite frankly we’re talking about an environment that requires robust equipment that has c...