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Mike Jack, a well-known speed-eater from London, Ontario, set out to break Guinness World Record by ingestion of 50 of the hottest chilis as fast as possible. Jack, 41, laid out pictures of the people who inspired him to take on the challenge before his first bite - he had the opportunity to do so. Thich Quang Duc, the legendary Buddhist monk who set his body on fire in protest against the Vietnamese government's persecution of Buddhists, was one of the photographs. In just six minutes and 49 seconds, Jack managed to eat a plate of 50 Carolina Reapers - the world's hottest peppers. He was inspired by the monk's extraordinary feat, which makes the spicy challenge seem less intimidating in comparison.

Uniquely DailyMail.com photos show the vessel's mothership disembarking the ship for the first time since the vessel's doomed underwater craft was questioned by investigators on board. The Polar Prince support ship returned to its home port in St. John's Harbor in Newfoundland on Saturday, docking at 8:15 a.m. local time as the sun broke through the morning fog. authorities also announced their investigation into the deadly disaster. The 41 passengers and crew, as well as family members of the victims' families, had remained near the OceanGate sub's dive site on the Atlantic after the launch of the ill-fated June 18 mission, which culminated in a deadly explosion that killed all five explorers on board.

A senior Naval official told The Wall Street Journal that the US Navy heard the sounds of the missing Titanic tourist subpoena imploding shortly after it was announced missing. At 9:45 a.m. on Sunday, contact was lost - one hour and 45 minutes into the descent. 'A study of acoustic data revealed an anomaly consistent with an implosion or explosion in the general vicinity of where the Titan submersible was operating when contacts were lost,' a senior US Navy official told The Wall Street Journal in a tweet.' Although not definitive, this information was quickly shared with the Incident Commander to support with the ongoing search and rescue mission.' On Thursday, a sound was heard in an area where the sub's rubble was found.

More ships have joined the desperate hunt for the Titan, which broke contact on Sunday while 435 miles south of St John's, Newfoundland. This afternoon, Royal Air Force (RAF) specialists arrived in RAF Lossiemouth in north-east Scotland. The two planes, the C-17 Globemaster and A400 Atlas, are being used to move specialist equipment to St John's.

A new snapshot of their search pattern was posted by the US Coast Guard, who is coordinating the recovery effort for the missing submerged submerged over the Titanic wreck. The photograph depicts the area above the shipwreck, marked with a large red X, and the areas surveyed by the Canadian Coast Guard boat John Cabot, commercial vessels Skandi Vinland and the Atlantic Merlin, as well as the Coast Guard C-130 crew, who arrived on scene to continue searching. The search area has now grown to around 14,000 square miles, or twice the size of Connecticut's state. Crews are in a desperate search for the sub with five people trapped inside.

GUY ADAMS: One Thursday morning, the police arrived at five o'clock, banging on doors to warn bleary-eyed homeowners that they should get out of bed and move their cars. Residents who refused to obey were swiftly punished: within minutes, about ten cars were loaded onto lorries and towed away, though roadblocks that now barred access to either end of the street. Opposition was crushed inside this cordon. Three people who took umbrage at the pre-dawn raid were shot in handcuffs, including a thirtysomething man and two grandmothers in their early 70s.