What is known about the loss at the bottom of the Atlantic submersible “Titan” with tourists

American company OceanGate’s Bathyscaphe “Titan” disappeared in the Atlantic Ocean on June 18 while en route to the wreckage of the Titanic. Recently, it has been learned that tourists have been without oxygen. However, the search still continues. He collected the main thing about the event.

It is known that tourists go on an expedition to see the wreckage of the Titanic, which lies at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean at a depth of about 3.8 kilometers. OceanGate planned to collect DNA samples from the ship’s crash site using a bathtub. Each tourist paid about 250 thousand dollars for landing.

On board, according to unofficial data: 58-year-old British billionaire Hamish Harding (who went to space on Jeff Bezos’ ship last year), 48-year-old Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood, and his 19-year-old son Suleiman. In addition to these, there is Stockton Rush, the founder of OceanGate. It is noteworthy that his wife is the great-grandson of first-class passengers of the Titanic, businessman Isidor Strauss and his wife Ida. The woman refused to board the lifeboat without her husband. The love stories were told by director James Cameron. The ship was managed by 73-year-old French pilot and oceanographer Paul-Henri Nargeole.

Searching for a bathyscaphe in an area of ​​approximately 20,000 square kilometers. The reasons why the ship cut off communications are unknown. But Sky News wrote that there could be an electrical problem, so the inside of the bathtub is now “too cold and too dark”.

At 14:08 Moscow time, the oxygen supply on the ship would run out. However, some experts argue that the final stock depends on a combination of certain factors. U.S. Coast Guard Rear Admiral John Mauger said the search for submersibles will continue “as long as there is hope of finding survivors.”