Titanic tour company speaks out about missing submarine

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🔴BREAKING: Titanic tour company speaks out about missing submarine

wreck in the Atlantic has spoken out about the submersible that went missing Monday.News that its submersible is the subject of a search and rescue mission. A U.S. Coast Guard spokesperson toldreached out to the USCG for comment.website has reported that three tugboats from a port in St. John's, Newfoundland, were headed to theNewsweek"Our entire focus is on the crew members in the submersible and their families," OceanGate said Monday.

The company had planned an expedition to the wreck from June 12 to June 30, with six people scheduled to depart and return to St. John's. It has not said how many people were on board the missing vessel.The wreck of the Titanic lies on the ocean floor in 12,500 feet of water, about 370 miles off the coast of Newfoundland. A tour company's submersible that takes tourists down to the wreck went missing Monday and is the subject of a search and rescue mission.

The passenger liner, which wasn't discovered until 1985, lies in two parts at 12,500 feet below sea level. Last month, the first full-sized digital scan of the wreck provided viewers with a 3D view of the ship using deep-sea mapping. Speaking to Frommers in 2020, OceanGate founder and CEO Stockton Rush said that half of his customers areobsessives and the other half were"the same types of travelers drawn to space tourism and similar far-flung, budget-busting adventures."

During the eight-day voyage, guests can spend a day exploring the wreck site from the submersible. There are"rare, close-up views, through a round window and high-tech cameras, of the sunken ship, the hundreds of marine species that now live on the hull, and the debris field strewn with the

 

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