Major search underway for missing Titanic wreck submarine

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British billionaire Hamish Harding is one of five people onboard the submarine

A massive search and rescue effort is under way in the North Atlantic after a submarine exploring the wreck of the Titanic went missing on Sunday.

The research vessel Polar Prince lost contact with the Titan submersible an hour and 45 minutes into its dive.

It is believed there are five people on board the submarine, including Hamish Harding, a 59-year-old British billionaire businessman and explorer.

The US Coast Guard estimates the sub has between 70 and 96 hours of emergency oxygen.

 

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British billionaire Hamish Harding is one of five people onboard the submarine

A massive search and rescue effort is under way in the North Atlantic after a submarine exploring the wreck of the Titanic went missing on Sunday.

The research vessel Polar Prince lost contact with the Titan submersible an hour and 45 minutes into its dive.

It is believed there are five people on board the submarine, including Hamish Harding, a 59-year-old British billionaire businessman and explorer.

The US Coast Guard estimates the sub has between 70 and 96 hours of emergency oxygen.

 

[pgs]

Quick somebody call Clive Cussler.

 

[Ron in Regina]

Quick somebody call Clive Cussler.

Read most of what he’s written, & cowritten. Awesome author.

National Underwater and Marine Agency - Wikipedia

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[55Mercury]

It's like meeting the woman of my dreams
...and then meeting her beautiful wife!

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

We all die in a missing submarine
Missing submarine
Missing submarine

 

[pgs]

Read most of what he’s written, & cowritten. Awesome author.

National Underwater and Marine Agency - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Dirk and Al should be arriving on scene as we speak . Sadly not the case in real life .

 

[Ron in Regina]

The Coast Guard’s First District reported early Wednesday that a Canadian P-3 aircraft detected underwater noises in the area where crews are looking for the missing Titan submersible and operations were redirected there. Those efforts “have yielded negative results but continue,” the Coast Guard tweeted.

Rescue window narrows as search area for Titan submersible doubles — The Washington Post

Search efforts near the noises have so far been unsuccessful in locating the missing Titan submersible and its five-person crew, the Coast Guard said.

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[Tecumsehsbones]

The Coast Guard’s First District reported early Wednesday that a Canadian P-3 aircraft detected underwater noises in the area where crews are looking for the missing Titan submersible and operations were redirected there. Those efforts “have yielded negative results but continue,” the Coast Guard tweeted.

Rescue window narrows as search area for Titan submersible doubles — The Washington Post

Search efforts near the noises have so far been unsuccessful in locating the missing Titan submersible and its five-person crew, the Coast Guard said.

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P-3, damn. I flew across the Pacific in one of them. Best flight I ever had.

 

[Jinentonix]

Yeesh, at $250,000 a pop I can think of cheaper, or at least more spectacular ways to die.

 

[Hoof Hearted]

Reminds me a bit of when Evel Knievel jumped the Snake River Canyon.

He was pretty much sitting in a cardboard soapbox with a jet engine attached to the back. He had no idea what he was getting into...not unlike these passengers on this submersible tin can.

 

[Jinentonix]

Reminds me a bit of when Evel Knievel jumped the Snake River Canyon.

He was pretty much sitting in a cardboard soapbox with a jet engine attached to the back. He had no idea what he was getting into...not unlike these passengers on this submersible tin can.

They knew what they were getting into, or at least 2 of them did anyway. That vessel was self-certified, NOT independently certified and had a string of issues before this trip.

 

[Hoof Hearted]

I won't 'pile on' these submarine tourists as they are all done. But Geez, you gotta wonder...WTH were they all thinking?!

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

Yeesh, at $250,000 a pop I can think of cheaper, or at least more spectacular ways to die.

The important thing is that YOU could never afford to die so spectacularly!

Peasant.

 

[petros]

More people have been to space than to that depth in the oceans.

That's one hell of an adventure.

 

[bob the dog]

Don't mess with the dead. Crazy how deep that ended up being. Could be wrong but believe one of the richest men in the world went down with the Titanic back when. Now they got four more.

For the record from when they started counting more than 3 million boats have sank although they don't know if they have them all and 50 large boats sink every year. People overlook the risk. Without looking it hard to guess if there were more airplane disasters or not.

 

[bob the dog]

More people have been to space than to that depth in the oceans.

That's one hell of an adventure.

Black as black can be they said. Shining lights would be the only way to see anything.

Sad that it happened but better to go fast than to sit waiting to run out of oxygen.

 

[bob the dog]

They knew what they were getting into, or at least 2 of them did anyway. That vessel was self-certified, NOT independently certified and had a string of issues before this trip.

How stupid can a billionaire be? Maybe they were not really them and there is an insurance scam yet to go down. Hard to prove things now.

 

[Ron in Regina]

 

[petros]

How stupid can a billionaire be? Maybe they were not really them and there is an insurance scam yet to go down. Hard to prove things now.

Its about adventure and risk. If a stupid, rich Spanish Queen didnt fund a loopy Italian Captain to build a fleet of long range sailing ships, North America would be Chinese.

Once they got to North America where trees were bigger and taller, ships got bigger and faster which kicked off global trade.