The US Coast guard is working around the clock, deploying all resources in the hope of finding a missing tourist sub that vanished while exploring the Titanic. apiotrowski9 9News MORE:
Sunday night about 700 kilometres south of St John's, in the Canadian province of Newfoundland, according to the country's Joint Rescue Coordination Centre.Officials are in a race against time to find a civilian submersible that had five people aboard after it went missing in the North Atlantic while voyaging to the wreckage of the Titanic.
"If there was a power failure and/or communication failure, this might have happened, and the submersible would then be bobbing about on the surface waiting to be found," Greig said."If it has gone down to the seabed and can't get back up under its own power, options are very limited," Greig said. "While the submersible might still be intact, if it is beyond the continental shelf, there are very few vessels that can get that deep, and certainly not divers.
Ship-tracking satellite data from MarineTraffic.com analysed by The Associated Press showed the Polar Prince some 690 kilometres south-east of St John's on Tuesday morning. He said the mission specialists would operate sonar equipment and cameras as well as handle communications and possibly drive the Titan.
"This is the only submersible — crude submersible — that's made of carbon fibre and titanium; largest carbon fibre structure that we know of. It's 5-inch-thick carbon fibre, three-and-a-quarter inch thick titanium," Rush said.British businessman Hamish Harding, who lives in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, was one of the mission specialists, according to Action Aviation, a company for which Harding serves as chairman.
Shahzada Dawood, one of the two Pakistani nationals on board the missing Titanic-exploring submersible.
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