A British explorer is thought to be one of the people on board a submarine that has gone missing while taking people to view the Titanic. A search and rescue mission is taking place in the north Atlantic Ocean.
A British explorer is thought to be among the people on board a submarine that has gone missing while taking people to view the Titanic.
A search and rescue mission is taking place in the north Atlantic Ocean after coastguards lost contact with the vessel, which is operated by Oceangate Expeditions. It is one of a number that occasionally take tourists, experts and scientists down to see the world-famous shipwreck.that a crew is on board and it would be ‘exploring and mobilising all options’ to bring them back.
It can reportedly take eight hours for a submersible to take people down to the wreck – which lies 13,000ft below the surface of the ocean – and back up again, as part of a multi-day trip. Last year, it was reported that one such excursion run by the Washington-based private company OceanGate cost a group of guests $250,000.The ship – which was the largest passenger vessel in history at the time – sank in 1912 Each mission has just six people on board, known as ‘mission specialists’.
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