A tourist submarine with tourists on board disappeared in the North Atlantic Ocean, this Monday, during a visit to the remains of the Titanic ship. The Boston Coast Guard, in the United States, has already started a search and rescue operation, the BBC advances.
OceanGate Expeditions, the company that owns the submarine and is responsible for the offshore expeditions, said it was “exploring and mobilizing all options to bring people back safely.” The company also said it has had “extensive assistance” from various government agencies and other companies in an attempt to re-establish contact with the submarine.
The submersible can take up to five people on board – a pilot, three tourists and a “content specialist” – but so far there is no confirmation of how many people were on board.
A British explorer, Hamish Harding, announced Sunday via a Facebook post that he would join OceanGate’s final expedition to the Titanic this year.
“The submarine crew has some legendary explorers, all of whom have made more than 30 dives on the RMS Titanic since the 1980s,” he said.
The trips to see the wreckage of the Titanic, which is found at a depth of 3,800 meters and 600 kilometers off the coast of Newfoundland, not Canada, lasts eight days and an associated cost that can cost up to 250 thousand dollars (228.8 thousand euro).
OceanGate Expeditions is the only company that owns a submarine, called “Titan”, capable of reaching the bottom of the ocean to see up close the remains of the Titanic, the passenger ship that sank on the maiden voyage between the United Kingdom and the United States. Joined. United States in April 1912 after colliding with an iceberg.
The disaster claimed the lives of 1,514 of the 2,224 passengers and crew.
The remains of the luxury liner were only found in 1985, more than seven decades after the sinking.
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Source: TSF
