A spokesperson for the US Coast Guard tells The Guardian that “a small submarine with five people on board has disappeared near the Titanic wreck”. A rescue operation is now underway with aircraft and sonar. The Coast Guard in Canada and the US Coast Guard are collaborating on the rescue operation. – We are doing everything we can to locate where the submarine is. We are thinking a lot about those who are in the submarine and their relatives, says Chief of the American Coast Guard John Mauger at a press conference on Monday evening. It is a challenging search operation, says chief of the US coast guard John Mauger Photo: AP The Canadian defense is assisting the US coast guard with aircraft in the search for the submarine Titan, which is missing from the wreck of the Titanic. – It is a remote area and it is a challenge to carry out a search, says Mauger. Titanic lies at a depth of 3,800 meters off Newfoundland. – We engage both the US Navy, the Canadian and private actors to see what underwater rescue might be available, says Mauger. British businessman Hamish Harding is one of the missing. Contact before the dive Norwegian Jannicke Mikkelsen is part of Harding’s theme, and had contact with him just before the dive. – Hamish wrote to me at 2am on Sunday. Going to dive later today if the weather holds, he wrote, says Mikkelsen, who describes himself as a friend of his. Jannicke Mikkelsen is a friend of one of the missing in the submarine. Together with Harding, she holds the world record for the fastest circumnavigation of the globe via the North and South Poles. She has previously made a documentary about Harding, who has also been in space. TITANIC: This picture of the Titanic wreck was taken during a dive in 1986. Photo: – / AFP – To carry out such expeditions, you need supporters to pay for it. There must be people who are rich and willing to take risks. Hamish Harding is such a person, says Mikkelsen. Jannicke Mikkelsen currently works as an news photographer in Svalbard. Mikkelsen acts as spokesperson for the family. While news is interviewing her, she receives a phone call from Harding’s wife. – It was nothing new. She is very worried, says Mikkelsen to news on Monday evening. Mentioned difficult weather Harding himself mentioned the dive on Facebook. “Due to Newfoundland’s worst winter in 40 years, this looks set to be the first and only manned expedition to Titanic in 2023,” he wrote. This is what the submarine used in the dives down to the Titanic looks like. Photo: Oceangate/Facebook – A weather window has just opened and we are trying to do a dive tomorrow, he wrote on Facebook. He wrote that there is an experienced team that will be involved. Some have over 30 dives down to the Titanic. Harding’s stepson has mentioned the dive on social media, and writes that he is praying for the family. Critical time According to Mikkelsen, you can survive in the submarine for 96 hours. This means that there is enough air until Thursday at 13.30 Norwegian time. But the situation now is critical. The submarine started the dive on Sunday 18 June at 13.30 Norwegian time and was supposed to be up at 21.22 the same day. The last contact with the submarine was on Sunday 15:47 Norwegian time. When the submarine loses contact with the mother ship, the emergency procedure states that the submarine must rise to the surface with a slow ascent. With such a procedure, the submarine should have been up by Monday 19:47 Norwegian time. Therefore, it is not known what has happened to the submarine or where it is. The urgent thing now is to find the submarine, and see if it is possible to bring it to the surface. – There are few submarines that can be transported to that place and go down. And there are few vessels that are able to carry out such an operation, says Mikkelsen. Facts about Titanic Photo: AP Titanic – British passenger ship, completed in 1912 for the White Star Line, Liverpool. Titanic was 46,300 GRT and thus the world’s largest ship (next to her sister ship Olympic, which was owned by the same line). The ship had a double bottom with 16 watertight bulkheads and was considered unsinkable. It was commissioned on the Southampton-New York route where it sank on its maiden voyage, south of Newfoundland on the night of 15 April 1912. The ship went down just under three hours after striking an iceberg which caused several holes in the hull and allowed the water to flow into five or six of the bulkheads. The number of lifeboats was insufficient. Something over 1,500 people perished, well 700 were saved; 20 of the dead were Norwegian. The wreck was located in 1985 at approx. 4,000 m deep and has since been carefully examined with an underwater robot. The scale of the tragedy and the contrast between the luxury among the rich on board and death in the icy water have fascinated posterity. Many have seen the shipwreck as an allegory of the end of the “glittering” era in which bourgeois Europe had lived since the end of the 19th century, and thus a foreshadowing of the outbreak of the First World War and the Depression. Already in the silent film era, there were several films depicting or referring to the disaster. Later productions include EA Dupont’s Atlantic (1929; in both German and English versions), Werner Klingler and Herbert Selpin’s German Titanic (1943), Jean Negulesco’s Titanic (1953), Roy Ward Baker’s A Night to Remember (Titanic’s downfall, 1958) and the television film SOS Titanic (1979). As a cinema success, all have been surpassed by James Cameron’s Titanic (1997). Source: Store norske lexikon The submarine that is missing is operated by the company Oceangate, which confirms that a rescue operation is underway. – We are now investigating all options to bring the crew back safely, the company writes in a statement. David Concannon, who is one of Oceangate’s advisors, tells the AP news agency that he should have actually been with the submarine, but that he was prevented. He says that they are trying to get hold of a vessel that can be remotely controlled and reach a depth of 6,000 metres. Oceangate would not confirm how many were on board or whether they were paying tourists. The company is grateful for the support they now receive from public agencies and others in the industry. Famous Titanic dives Oceangate Expeditions recently posted on its website that an expedition to the Titanic wreck was underway. Earlier this month, the company wrote on Twitter that it was using the satellite company Starlink to maintain communication with its expedition on the Titanic voyage. An eight-day expedition, which includes diving down to the Titanic, costs over NOK 2.6 million (US$250,000), writes the BBC. The dive itself will take eight hours. The mothership of the submarine is the Polar Prince. Marine Traffic shows the itinerary of this boat. Marine Traffic shows the journey of the Polar Prince, which transported the submarine to the site of the Titanic. In an interview with CBS last year, CEO Stockton Rush described the kind of people who went on such expensive trips. – We have customers who are Titanic enthusiasts, whom we call Titanics. We have had people who have mortgaged their homes to participate. We also had a man who had won the lottery, Rush replied. The submarine The Titan is the only one in the world that can carry five people as deep as the Titanic. Oceangate’s last Twitter message from June 15. The wreck discovered in 1985 Titanic was the largest ship of its time. It hit an iceberg on its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York in 1912. Of the 2,200 passengers and crew on board, over 1,500 died. 20 of the dead were Norwegian. The Titanic has been extensively explored since the wreck was discovered in 1985.
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