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Search mission continues for missing Titanic tour sub!
- A massive search operation is underway to find a submersible with five people on board that went missing on a trip to view the wreckage of the Titanic.
- The vessel lost contact 1 hour and 45 minutes into its dive Sunday, the US Coast Guard said. It has between 70 and 96 hours of life support, officials said.
- Among those aboard are a British adventurer, a French diver and a Pakistani father and son, according to social media posts and a family statement.
- The Titanic wreckage sits at the bottom of the ocean nearly 13,000 feet below the surface southeast of Newfoundland, Canada.
I hope they find them soon!
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The US Coast Guard is working "around the clock" to try to find the missing submersible with five people on board, an official said today.
The submersible was reported missing on Sunday after it lost contact and didn't return to the surface at its expected time.Capt. Jamie Frederick, with the First Coast Guard District, said it has been a "complex search" that requires specialized equipment.
The Coast Guard doesn’t have all of the expertise and equipment that they need, which is why they are calling on other agencies and countries for help, Frederick said, including the United States Navy and the Canadian Armed Forces.
"The unified command brings that expertise and additional capability together to maximize effort in solving this very complex problem," he said at a news briefing today..
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Additional rescue vessels arrived today in the massive operation to find a missing submersible with five people aboard after banging sounds were picked up earlier from the remote North Atlantic sparked hope in some quarters.
The underwater sounds were detected by sonar devices deployed to find the 21-foot vessel that lost contact Sunday while descending 13,000 feet to the bottom of the ocean on a tour of the Titanic’s wreckage.
The banging first came every 30 minutes and was heard again four hours later, the memo states.The noises were detected by a Canadian P-3 aircraft and prompted the relocation of resources to explore their origin, but “searches have yielded negative results,” the US Coast Guard tweeted early today.
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