2023-06-20 00:49:21
The U.S. Coast Guard has been searching for a deep-sea submersible used for tourists to see the wreckage of the sunken passenger ship Titanic.
The US Boston Coast Guard said on the morning of the 19th local time that the submersible “Titan” of the US undersea exploration company “Oceangate Expedition” lost contact in regarding an hour and 45 minutes following it entered the water with five people on board.
Among those missing is billionaire British businessman and explorer Hamish Harding, his family said.
Harding is the chairman of the private airplane company ‘Action Aviation’, and is also a person who went on space travel through ‘Blue Origin’, a private space company founded by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos last year.
The missing submersible is said to dive following filling it with oxygen for four days.
A Coast Guard official explained at a press conference, “We are conducting a search operation using two aircraft, a submarine and a sonar buoy, but it is not easy because the search area is far away.”
The search area is regarding 1,400 km east of the coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA.
Oceangate Expedition has put a tourist product on the market to see the sunken Titanic hull at regarding 4,000 meters under the Atlantic Ocean, and the cost of the tour is 250,000 dollars per person and regarding 340 million won in our money. It is known.
In 1912, while en route from England to New York, the Titanic hit an iceberg and sank, killing 1,500 passengers.
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