The disappearance of a submersible, also known as a watercraft, into the wide North Atlantic waters after a risky tourist trip to the ocean floor turned deadly has captured the attention of the entire world. Check out some comments and tweets below:
- rocsantana I could not imagine being stuck in that small cylinder especially with 5 people !!! my anxiety ??
- journey2mya Man I’m really praying they are found and brought to safety.
- iamosner Imagine being stuck in there at the bottom of the ocean knowing your times running out and all of those billions of dollars you have really don’t mean shit?
- mr.first.take Y’all all cap?
- uluvnique Lord put your hands on this search.
Passengers on board the Titanic sub
Those aboard the submersible were:
British adventurer Hamish Harding, 58
French veteran Titanic explorer Paul Henri Nargeoloet, 77
British-Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood, 48
19-year-old son Suleman
American Stockton Rush – 61, co-founder of OceanGate, the company that operated the lost sub.
Just an hour and 45 minutes into its two-and-a-half-hour dive to the renowned wreckage early on Sunday, the spacecraft unexpectedly lost contact with its mother ship, the Polar Prince.
What is known about the Titanic sub
The Titan submersible is a 22-foot (6.7-meter) long vessel run by OceanGate Expeditions out of Everett, Washington.
According to the company’s website, it performed its first journey dive to 4,000 meters (13,100 feet) in December 2018 and its first dive to the Titanic’s wreck site, which is located about 3,800 meters beneath the Atlantic, in 2021. This year, it intended to perform 18 of these dives.
A submersible, unlike a submarine, has limited power reserves and needs a support ship on the surface to launch and recover it. In this case, that support ship is the Polar Prince.
A submersible, or in this example, the “Titan,” can only remain under for around 10 to 11 hours with each journey, in contrast to a submarine, which can spend months submerged.
The Titan’s travels are operated by OceanGate Expeditions, which charges $250,000 (or around Ksh 35 million) each ticket.
They include Pakistani millionaire Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman Dawood, French diver and Titanic specialist Paul-Henri Nargeolet, and British billionaire businessman Hamish Harding.
Stockton Rush, the founder of the submersible and CEO of OceanGate, is the fifth individual.
Titan uses text messages to connect with its mother ship because it lacks a GPS underwater. According to the OceanGate Expeditions website, the submersible must text its mother ship at least once every 15 minutes; the most recent message was sent at 11:47 a.m. Sunday.
According to the US Coast Guard, a remotely operated vehicle found a debris field close to the Titanic submersible search location, and authorities are “evaluating the information,” according to a tweet posted on Thursday.
As of today, 22nd of June 2023, Authorities are “evaluating the information,” according to the US Coast Guard, after a remotely operated vehicle found a debris field close to the Titanic submersible search location on Thursday.
Uncertainty exists over the submersible’s connection to this debris field.
