![]() Businessman Hamish Harding is one of the passengers, according to a social media post by his company, Action Aviation. Who is on board: Five people are in the missing submersible, according to authorities.The Titanic wreckage, discovered in 1985, sits in two parts at the bottom of the ocean nearly 13,000 feet below the surface. Mauger said officials "anticipate that they're somewhere between 70 to the full 96 hours" of oxygen available on the vessel at this point. The 21-foot vessel has life support for up to 96 hours, according to the OceanGate website. What we know about the vessel: The submersible, named “Titan,” is 23,000 pounds and made of carbon fiber and titanium, according to the tour operator, OceanGate Expeditions.Smith went down with the ship, and his body was never recovered. Many maritime safety reforms were implemented as a result of the findings of the investigations. ![]() Edward Smith for going too fast in dangerous waters, initial ship inspections that had been done too quickly, insufficient room in the lifeboats for all passengers, and a nearby ship’s failure to help. The cause of the crash: The iceberg punctured five of 16 supposedly watertight compartments designed to hold water in case of a breach to the hull. The wreckage is located about 350 miles off the southeast coast of Newfoundland. The ship’s length was 882 feet, 9 inches, and it weighed 46,328 tons. At the time, the RMS Titanic was the largest passenger ship afloat. The ship: The estimated cost of construction was $7.5 million. Here's more interesting facts on the Titanic: Then, between April 14-15, it hit an iceberg around midnight and sank in less than three hours.Ī total of 1,517 people died and 706 survived out of 2,223 passengers and crew, according to the US Senate report on the disaster. The ship set sail from Southampton, England, to New York on April 10, 1912. More than 100 years after its disastrous maiden voyage, the fate of the luxury liner has long served as a source of fascination, and been the backdrop for countless books, fiction and non-fiction and, of course, the blockbuster movie. The submersible that has gone missing in the North Atlantic was part of an expedition to view the wreckage of the RMS Titanic, perhaps the most famous shipwreck in the world. The port bow railing of the Titanic lies in 12,600 feet of water about 400 miles east of Nova Scotia as photographed as part of a joint scientific and recovery expedition sponsored by the Discovery Channel and RMS Titantic.
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