Titan submarine, en route to witness the wreckage of Titanic remains, is missing even after hours of search operation being launched. As of June 21 afternoon, less than 24 hours of oxygen is left inside the missing submarine
According to officials citing a US Government internal correspondence, Sonars placed on Canadian P-8 aircraft detected banging sounds every 30 minutes below the Atlantic Ocean. Following this, several rescuers have been sent to the location in a bid to detect the missing submarine. New sonar devices have been installed after the noises were intercepted
The missing submarine has five passengers including British billionaire Hamish Harding, a 58-year-old aviator, space tourist, and chairman of Dubai-based Action Aviation and Pakistani billionaire Shehzada Dawood along with his son. OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush and 73-year-old explorer Paul-Henry Nargeolet are also amid those stuck inside Titan submarine
It costs $250,000 (Rs 2 crore approx.) per person to take a trip on the Titan submarine to visit the Titanic wreckage. For Pakistani billionaire Shehzada Dawood who went along with his son, the trip could have cost a whopping PKR 14 crore approx
Science writer David Pogue, who had boarded the submersible for a report, months ago said that this isn’t the first time the Titan disappeared. During his experience, the vessel went missing for five hours. He wasn’t inside the submarine but while in the control room on the surface ship, he mentioned that there was no way to track the vessel
In one of his podcasts, David Pogue mentioned the multiple red flags around Titan submarine. He said that the vessel did not have an Emergency Locator Transmitter. The passengers have to sign a form stating "An experimental submersible vessel that has not been approved or certified by any regulatory body and could result in physical injury, disability, emotional trauma or death.”
According to a 2022 video of Titan, the missing Titanic submarine, the vessel has a single window, no seats and the passengers sit barefoot cross-legged on the floor. It has a toilet seat that uses a curtain for privacy. Notably, the submersible is navigated using a video game controller and is sealed with at least 17 bolts from the outside
RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner which sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on April 15, 1912 after striking an iceberg during its maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York City. Around 2,224 passengers were on-board out of which more than 1,500 passengers died making it the deadliest sinking of a single ship. Its wreckage still lies at a depth of about 12,500 feet about 370 nautical miles south-southeast of the coast of Newfoundland. It lies in two main pieces about 2,000 feet (600 m) apart
Submarines are usually used for undertaking military operations by a country. In the past, USS Scorpion (SSN-589), Israeli submarine INS Dakar, the French submarine Minerve, and the Soviet submarine K-129 have gone missing. The wreckage of USS Scorpion remains in the North Atlantic Ocean with all its armaments and nuclear reactor