Fears operation to find OceanGate Titanic submarine could dwarf even the deepest rescue mission in history
The US Coast Guard has warned the operation will prove challenging as it works with Canadian services and private vessels to locate the sub.could have sunk down to the ocean bed near the wrecked cruise liner, which went down in 1912 and sits about 12,000ft below the surface.
Former Royal Navy submariner Roger Chapman and engineer Roger Mallinson were on board a deep-sea submersible when it sank into an abyss, plummeting to 1,575ft.Picture: Alamy Chapman, 28, and Mallinson, 35, were rescued after a three-day operation about 150 miles of Ireland's south coast. They had just 12 minutes of oxygen left before they were saved.
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