A sister and aunt of two passengers on board the missing Titan submersible has said the family's 'sole focus' is their rescue
Shahzada Dawood is also a trustee at the SETI Institute - a Silicon Valley not-for-profit working in space exploration.operated by OceanGate - a US-based company which offers crewed submersibles for industry, research and exploration.Other passengers include British billionaire, 58, OceanGate Inc CEO and founder Stockton Rush and Paul-Henri Nargeolet, a former commander who served in the French Navy for 25 years.
Tickets for an expedition such as this cost $250,000 for an eight-day trip including dives to the wreck. Contact with the vessel was reportedly lost about an hour and 45 minutes after it submerged on Sunday in the Atlantic.US and Canadian ships and planes are involved, but it remains unclear whether the Titan is still underwater or had surfaced and was unable to communicate.Missing sub: 'We knew this would happen'
Oceanographer and expert Dr David Gallo, who describes the Titan's pilot, Mr Nargeolet, as his"best friend", sThe worst case scenario is"probably a collapse - a catastrophic implosion of the sub itself which would be horrific", Dr Gallo told Sky News.
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