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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??
What is there to research? Seriously. You know everything about the ship and the history. And unless you're planning on raising that sucker off the bottom of the ocean, I just don't get what you're going to further research. [Reply]
Only TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS to climb into a drainage ditch pipe and take turns looking out of a 10 inch circle at what you are told is a shipwreck while sitting with 4 other people in what looks like the back of a minivan with the seats out
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British billionaire explorer Hamish Harding, renowned French diver Paul-Henri Nargeolet and Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his 19-year-old son Sulaiman Dawood are onboard.
OceanGate Expeditions CEO Stockton Rush is believed to be the fifth person aboard.
Imagine being a billionaire and going in this thing 2 miles deep [Reply]
Only TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS to climb into a drainage ditch pipe and take turns looking out of a 10 inch circle at what you are told is a shipwreck while sitting with 4 other people in what looks like the back of a minivan with the seats out
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Harding flew to space as part of the suborbital Blue Origin NS-21 mission, on 4 June 2022, on the fifth spaceflight of the New Shepard rocket.
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And don't forget that if those cutaway diagrams are correct, you're literally sitting on the toilet as you're looking out the window...
Doesn't Everest cost like $40 grand? I think I'll just taunt death that way instead...
I hiked the Grand Canyon, 18 miles down and back, last year, and ignored the signs along the way saying don't do that and pretty sure a month or 2 later someone died trying to do the entire hike.
