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A massive search and rescue operation is under way in the mid Atlantic after a tourist submarine went missing during a dive to Titanic's wreck on Sunday.
Contact with the small sub was lost about an hour and 45 minutes into its dive, the US Coast Guard said.
Tour firm OceanGate said all options were being explored to rescue the five people onboard.Tickets cost $250,000 (£195,000) for an eight-day trip including dives to the wreck at a depth of 3,800m (12,500ft).
Government agencies, the US and Canadian navies and commercial deep-sea firms are helping the rescue operation, officials said.Titanic's wreck lies some 435 miles (700km) south of St John's, Newfoundland, though the rescue mission is being run from Boston, Massachusetts.
The missing craft is believed to be OceanGate's Titan submersible, a truck-sized sub that holds five people and usually dives with a four-day emergency supply of oxygen.
On Monday afternoon, Rear Adm John Mauger of the US Coast Guard told a news conference: "We anticipate there is somewhere between 70 and the full 96 hours available at this point."
Hamish Harding, a 58-year-old British billionaire businessman and explorer, is among those on the missing submarine, his family said.
The submersible usually carries a pilot, three paying guests, and what the company calls a "content expert".
- Musk should be on thisfadein11
- Where do you poop?refunktion
- Their hearts will go onPhanLo
- Sea Monster?jmckinno
- Orca'ssrhadden
- Aliens?utopian
- British rescue mission for Titan was ‘blocked by US officials’ to help in the search of the OceanGate's Titan submersible. – USA #1utopian
- Have they not seen the movie? It doesn't end well.PhanLo
- make it yellow...neverscared
- @fade That would just end in people who actually know what they're doing telling him he's not qualified. Which is him in a nutshell, lol.garbage
- Then he'll falsely accuse his critics of being pedos. Rinse, repeat.garbage
- Want to look out of the window? Have to smell the toilet.shapesalad
- the toilet is in that nose cone before the window..shapesalad
- ha fade, my thoughts exactly, in my best old-timey superman impression -"This looks like a job for -Shit For Brains!!"_niko
- lol, preciselyfadein11
- fart hotboxKrassy
- Fuck around and find out.palimpsest
- It's been 2 days, they're deaddrgs
- imagine spending half a million dollars to accidentally kill your son in front of you.
Not sure that was in the brochure.Nairn - you'd think the mother ship would have a tether or something._niko
- Lol Nairn. 'I'm so sorry son' as the weight of the ocean churns them into a fleshy explosionPhanLo
- It looks like the CEO is drowned down there. Hamish Harding is one of those silly billionaires that takes "space tours" and pays for Guinness World Records.garbage
- https://observer.com…garbage
- I guess he was going for "Ugliest Posho With the Dumbest Name to Die on the Floor of The Atlantic".garbage
- Anyone getting in that thing signed a paper agreeing there was a chance they could die and that they can’t sue as a result.monospaced
- How could they sue if they're dead?Nairn
- It don't matter.
USA! USA!palimpsest