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.
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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.
The U.S. Coast Guard is searching for a missing Canadian research submersible that disappeared while exploring the wreck of the Titanic, with five people onboard including British billionaire Hamish Harding. The Coast Guard has deployed multiple vessels and aircraft to search for the submersible and is asking anyone with information to contact them.
U.S. Coast Guard Launches Search and Rescue Mission for Missing Submarine Exploring Titanic Wreckage
U.S. Coast Guard Launches Search and Rescue Mission for Missing Submarine Exploring Titanic Wreckage
The U.S. Coast Guard in Boston is conducting a search and rescue mission for a submarine that went missing in the North Atlantic while exploring the wreckage of the Titanic. OceanGate Expeditions, the company that owns the submarine, is exploring all options to bring the crew back safely. The Coast Guard is working to bring the crew back safely, though it is not clear how many people were on board or who was operating it.