"US medical professionals will conduct a formal analysis of presumed remains"
So... bits and pieces of organic matter that may or may not be human. I assumed that they all were blown to smithereens in the accident, so I'm curious to know what they found.
Presume that similar to air incident investigations, there'll be a forensics investigation on the wreckage to formally determine the cause of the incident.
However, the difference between the two situations is that aircraft have fully documented designs and maintenance reports, whereas this craft appears to have been cobbled together with zip ties.
Maybe one of the families will have something tangible for a funeral/memorial service. Some folks need that sort of thing to make it easier to grieve and eventually move on.
It's kind of surprising since the way it was explained to me, no remains could...well "remain" given the pressure at that depth. I know how morbid it sounds, but strictly speaking I would be interesting to know which "parts" remained/they found that could've withstood that.
From what I've learned from the titanic I'm pretty sure they decompose faster as I know that even the clothes and bones of the titanic victims have decomposed we were only able to count victims based on the souls of their shoes that being the only part of the bodys that didn't decompose
To be fair, it went down in 1912 and the wreck wasn't discovered until the 1980s, so plenty of time to be decomposed/eaten. I have also read that bodies tend to leave behind feet in water (sometimes even wash up to shore) because the shoes prevent creatures from scavenging the feet.