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A search and rescue operation is currently underway to locate a submarine that went missing during an expedition to the Titanic.
The U.S. Coast Guard was looking for the submarine Monday morning after it disappeared during the expedition from St. John's, N.L. The infamous 1912 wreck is located more than 600 kilometres southeast of the province in the North Atlantic Ocean.
The trip to the Titanic was being run by OceanGate Expeditions, a U.S.-based company. It uses a five-person submersible named Titan to reach the wreckage 3,800 metres below the surface. OceanGate's website advertises a seven-night voyage to the Titanic for US$250,000 per person, or approximately CA$330,000.
"We are exploring and mobilizing all options to bring the crew back safely," an OceanGate spokesperson said in an email to CTV News. "Our entire focus is on the crewmembers in the submersible and their families."
Those tours are a series of five eight-day missions to the Titanic with the money raised by tourists going towards Titanic research. Posts on social media show the ship launched from the St. John's area last week.
Did they really have 5 people in this?? Or do they have a larger version??
Originally Posted by Marcellus:
$250K a person to go down deep into the ocean to look at a barely recognizable ship wreck?
A fool and their money are soon parted,along with their lives sometimes.
Definitely is a bit strange but I assume the allure was more so doing something 99.99999% of the population has never done.
And if you're spending $250,000 a pop on something like this, a quarter mil is nothing to you. They probably could have wiped their ass with this money then lit it up. [Reply]
Originally Posted by ThaVirus:
Definitely is a bit strange but I assume the allure was more so doing something 99.99999% of the population has never done.
And if you're spending $250,000 a pop on something like this, a quarter mil is nothing to you. They probably could have wiped their ass with this money then lit it up.
