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The five-day search effort for the Titan is now being criticized after evidence hinted at the crew’s fate days ago.

The rescue mission has now tragically become one of recovery after sections of the sub were discovered near the Titanic. The Coast Guard believes a catastrophic implosion occurred early on in the voyage, killing all five men aboard.

But two anonymous U.S. Navy officials say a top-secret military acoustic system detected what they suspected was the sub’s implosion days ago. That information was shared with the rescue, who kept it private. Now, taxpayers might be on the hook for the massive operation that cost millions of dollars.

Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) criticized the leaders who didn’t deploy U.S. equipment to investigate the Navy data sooner.

Meanwhile, famed director and deep-sea explorer James Cameron says he assumed the sub’s fate on Monday when he learned that the submersible had suddenly lost all contact with its support vessel.