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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 Katipan:
Who thumbs down Clays post?
You couldn't imagine doing that?
You'd rather watch your kid suffocate in shit?
I don't care enough to do any thumbing, but there is no way to "blow the hatch" unless some of them just happened to take along a stick of dynamite in case of emergencies. They were bolted in. [Reply]
Originally Posted by DaFace:
I don't care enough to do any thumbing, but there is no way to "blow the hatch" unless some of them just happened to take along a stick of dynamite in case of emergencies. They were bolted in.
they didn't have some kind of emergency hatch? the only way out is to be unscrewed outta the thing? :-) [Reply]
Originally Posted by Hammock Parties:
i think they were running low on 02 and intentionally blew the hatch so their families would never see their bloated corpses
that explain why it took so long for the debris to surface, and it surface quickly relative to their oxygen running out
