by Arthur Parashar at Daily Mail
A desperate search mission involving a remotely operated vehicle is underway to rescue a Titanic tourist submersbile which has vanished 12,500ft below the Atlantic Ocean with around 70 hours of air left.
The Joint Rescue Coordination Centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia, said the OceanGate Expeditions vessel carrying five passengers, including British billionaire Hamish Harding, went missing at around 9.13pm Sunday, about 435 miles (700 kilometres) south of St. John’s, Newfoundland.
The sub was taking a crew of five people – including OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, French explorer PH Nargeolet and Harding – to the famous Titanic wreckage as part of its $250,000-a-head tour.
If the crew can be found, this operation would be 11,000ft deeper than the deepest successful undersea rescue in history – when British engineers Roger Mallinson and Roger Chapman survived their submersible Pisces III getting trapped on the seabed at a depth of 1,575ft off Ireland in 1973.
In a press conference on Monday, the US Coast Guard refused to comment on whether any manned vessel was capable of reaching 12,500ft but it did confirm that sub-surface assistance was on its way.
David Concannon, an adviser to OceanGate who had actually planned to be on…
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