A number of rescue vessels have joined the search
A massive search and rescue operation is being carried out in the mid-Atlantic after the OceanGate tourist vessel, the Titan, went missing during a dive to the shipwreck with five people aboard.
British billionaire Hamish Harding is on the submersible, along with French diver Paul-Henri Nargeolet, the founder of OceanGate, Stockton Rush, and Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman. The trip, which is thought to cost £195,000 per head, launched at 4am on Sunday . However, communications disappeared one hour and 45 minutes into the descent to the wreck site, which sits about 3,800m below sea level at the bottom of the ocean around 370 miles off the coast of Newfoundland but in US waters.The U.S. Coast Guard has since released the first image of the area that they are focusing their search efforts on.
Among them are the Canadian Coast Guard’s scientific research vessel, the John Cabot, which has sonar search capabilities, the Canadian Atlantic Merlin and the subsea support vessel Skandi Vinland.Three vessels arrived on-scene Wednesday morning, the The John Cabot has side scanning sonar capabilities and is conducting search patterns alongside the Skandi Vinland and the Atlantic Merlin.
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