Titanic tour company offered up-close experience for $250,000

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The submersible that disappeared Sunday near the Titanic wreckage was on only its third trip since the company OceanGate Expeditions began offering them in 2021.

and reported its rapid deterioration. The pace of visits has picked up since.

On dive days, five people can fit into the submersible, named Titan, and the descent takes a couple of hours“You may assist the pilot with coms and tracking, take notes for the science team about what you see outside of the viewport, watch a movie or eat lunch,” it says. “You couldn’t write a better story,” Rush told the website. “You have the rich and the poor. You have opulence. You have hubris. You have tragedy. You have death.”

 

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