Legendary singer-songwriter Shane MacGowan, frontman of the Celtic punk band The Pogues, passed away on Thursday at the age of 65. MacGowan was best known for his work with The Pogues, most famously their Christmas ballad “Fairytale of New York”, and continued to perform and write music despite his health struggles. His family released a statement confirming the news, saying they were “blessed beyond words” to have had so many years of life and love with him.
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OceanGate's submersible, the Titan, has gone missing on a trip to the Titanic wreck site in the North Atlantic. Search and rescue teams are combing the area for the vessel, which is equipped with features that allow it to rise from the depths of the sea without electricity. David Pogue, a CBS News correspondent who was aboard the Titan last year, noted that the submersible did not have a beacon similar to an aircraft’s emergency locator transmitter, but that it had previously gotten “lost on the sea floor for a few hours” and still had communication with its mother ship. The cause of the disappearance is still unknown.
An expedition to the Titanic wreckage site in the North Atlantic went awry on Sunday when the submersible carrying five people, including at least three paying passengers, went missing. The Coast Guard is leading the search efforts in an area more than two miles below the ocean's surface, but the submersible has not yet been located. The two professional crew members on board were OceanGate's CEO and founder, Stockton Rush, and a French veteran of deep-sea exploration.