What to know about OceanGate, the company that owns missing submersible

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As search efforts continue for the missing Titanic submersible, here’s what to know about the company that launched the expedition.

Missing Titan submersible: What it is, what might have gone wrong and what's being done to find itA submersible is not the same thing as a submarine. A submersible is smaller than a submarine and lacks the power to depart and return from expeditions on its own. That's why it needs the support of a mother vessel, like Polar Prince.. It's dubbed as the only submersible that can take five people to those depths of the ocean.

The company says the 23,000-pound vessel made of titanium and carbon filament was designed for"site survey and inspection, research and data collection, film and media production, and deep sea testing of hardware and software."with Rush are British billionaire Hamish Harding, French diver Paul Henry Nargeolet, Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his son, Suleman.The Titanic sits roughly 370 miles off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada.

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