Efforts to find survivors missing in the Titan submersible have intensified as officials warn that the oxygen supply could run out soon.
This photo provided by OceanGate Expeditions shows a submersible vessel named Titan used to visit the wreckage site of the Titanic. In a race against the clock on the high seas, an expanding international armada of ships and airplanes searched Tuesday, June 20, 2023, for the submersible that vanished in the North Atlantic while taking five people down to the wreck of the Titanic.
Titanic at the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean, nearly 13,000 feet below land, southeast of Newfoundland,About an hour and 45 minutes into its descent, the vessel called Titan lost contact with the Polar Prince, the mothership.underwater in the search area on Wednesday but efforts to trace the source has been unsuccessful.So far, three vessels have arrived to join the search for the missing Titan including a vessel which has technology that can detect and map out objects on the seafloor.
Agencies including the Manned Underwater Vehicles committee of the Marine Technology Society and former employees of OceanGate, the tour company responsible for the Titanic submersible, had expressed concerns in the past about Titan’s safety.
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