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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??
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
Originally Posted by DJ's left nut:
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...
Well, you don't have to have the stamina and conditioning of a professional athlete to sit on your ass in a metal tube. Most of these guys would probably die getting to the third base camp. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Hammock Parties:
letting your dipshit passengers control your delicate sub at depths that will kill you seems like a really dumb idea too
I have a feeling they're going to find them, rescue them and then we'll be seeing commercials in a year or so for a movie starring Jake Gyllenhal as the doomed submarine captain. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Spott:
Just imagining being stuck in that little tube with a bunch of strangers having to smell each other’s shit sounds like hell.
Originally Posted by Gravedigger:
I have a feeling they're going to find them, rescue them and then we'll be seeing commercials in a year or so for a movie starring Jake Gyllenhal as the doomed submarine captain.
Originally Posted by Rams Fan:
Ok, after watching this, I don't think there's any chance they make it back alive. Theoretically, they should've been able to resurface by now as the submersible had 7 mechanisms implemented to resurface (including some that don't require a person to deploy)...
“Hope is quickly fading” to find the missing submersible that left for a mission to the wreckage of the Titanic, says @Pogue, who went on board the same sub last year.
He says it could be impossible to rescue the passengers if the sub is still underwater. pic.twitter.com/n0NTsLYkIJ
That dude also has posts where he says, the sub got lost for 5 hours when he did the piece on it..he was in the control room and their response was to turn off the wifi so they couldn't tweet about it..
Yea that certainly seems A-ok uh huh.
Weirdest part is how this dude didn't think to you know talk about that at all. [Reply]
