A tourist vessel carrying five people on an expedition to see the wreck of the Titanic is running out of oxygen as authorities race against time to find survivors in the face of logistical challenges.
It was one hour and 45 minutes into its attempted dive when it went missing, but authorities are still not clear about what went wrong.; British-Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his son, Suleman; and French maritime expert Paul Henri Nargeolet.OceanGate chief executive Stockton Rush, whose Seattle-based company runs the Titanic expeditions at a cost of $US250,000 a ticket, was also confirmed to be on board.
British billionaire Hamish Harding, who is onboard the submersible, after a successful flight to space in June 2022.Since then, the US Coast Guard had been co-ordinating search efforts with the US Navy Coast Guard, the Air National Guard and the Polar Prince to scan the area, which spans about 12200 kilometres – or a region “larger than Connecticut,” Frederick said.
A Canadian coast guard cutter and other vessels are also en route, while France’s maritime ministry announced it was sending a research vessel equipped with a deep-sea underwater robot to assist in the mission.“The idea and our wish is for the ship to arrive as soon as possible, which should be Wednesday at 8pm local time,” Herve Berville, French secretary of state in charge of the sea, told local network BFMTV.
However, it also emerged on Tuesday that OceanGate was previously the target of safety complaints from an employee who alleged he was fired because he had raised concerns over how deep the vessel could descend.
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