Titanic: a tourist submarine gone missing to explore the wreckage

A tourist submarine used to travel to the sinking area of ​​the Titanic, lost in the Atlantic Ocean off North America.

An alarming disappearance in the Atlantic Ocean. The US Coast Guard said Monday it has launched a search and rescue mission to try to find a small tourist submarine used to travel to the Titanic’s sinking area off the coast of North America.

“We are looking for him,” an official from the Coast Guard Rescue Coordination Center in Boston told AFP, confirming press reports. The Canadian Coast Guard told AFP that Canada was also involved in the search, with a boat and aircraft. They added that the boat, which was loaded, “was off east Newfoundland and left for the search area.”

The company organizing the trip, OceanGate Expeditions, said in a press release to “explore and mobilize all options for the safe return of the crew,” without saying how many people were on board. according to guardianIt is believed that five people were on board the submarine.

The wreck of the Titanic, which sank in 1912 after colliding with an iceberg, was discovered in 1985 650 kilometers off the Canadian coast, at a depth of 4000 meters in the international waters of the Atlantic Ocean.