A sub used to take tourists to see the wreckage of the Titanic has vanished with five people on board, including a Brit billionaire.
Rescue crews are frantically searching the Atlantic Ocean after the £200,000-a-head voyage disappeared.
Five people are on board the missing sub, the US Coastguard has confirmed.
One of them has been named as aviator and businessman Hamish Harding.
The 58-year-old is known as one of the leaders of the record-breaking mission to orbit the Earth via both poles in 2019.
The Chairman of the British Titanic Society has told TalkTV of the missing submersible that, “when you undertake a dive such as this, the passengers and the crew, they do realise the possibility of an incident such as this happening.”
David Scott-Beddard gave his thoughts on the incident and the craft – which is used to take tourists to the site of the Titanic wreck – on Jeremy Kyle Live, and said he hopes and prays the divers come back safely.
Jeremy asked Scott-Beddard for his reaction to what has happened.
He said, “It’s clearly very distressing news. This is the first incidence of this type since Titanic was discovered in September of 1985, so primarily our thoughts are with the crew and members of the public who are tourists onboard the submersible.”
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Will they find the missing sub?
Rip x 5
Its a gravesite and should be respected , sometimes the rich have to be told "no you cant" .
The Chinese can retrieve that ship – CALL THEM!!😢
Did the British BILLIONAIRE have enemies?
People who might want inherit his $$$$$?
I don't trust these people..
Rest in peace
The titanic reaches up from the grave and claims more victims.
Its ONLY A SEARCH MISSION, THERE IS NO CAPABILITY TO RESCUE THEM. There is ONLY ONE SUB that has the capability to possibly get to them but not save or retrieve them. They are goners! Millionaires/Billionaires paying 250k for a seat on a PROTOTYPE DEATH TRAP to go see a graveyard on the ocean floor and now become permanently part of it, how ironic.
Genuinely sad BUT some things are better left alone. We know more about deep space than we do our own oceans.
One day someone may pronounce Newfoundland right , heartbreaking people are lost , leave the boat be
Where's Musk with some cretinous idea to rescue them???
Q: How do you think the unthinkable? A: With an ithberg, thilly….
I remember when they said they would never turn the Titanic into a tourist spectacle out of respect for the dead. Did they mean except the super rich
Tourists at a grave site ???
they are dead that sub most likely imploded
Name the non-billionaires as well.
I sure hope there was no damage to the titanic when that sub imploded probably got a abit to close and hit and punctured the subs hull
Why don't anyone call the police
It’s so disturbing to see some people making jokes about this situation in the comments. Some people are so far from reality and the fact that this is real people not a movie scene. I will never understand what goes through the mind of others. The general message should be the hope they are all found safe and it’s in gods hands.
Wow what a risk , they can’t find something better to spend $250,000 on then going down in a cramped Campbell’s soup can with no bathroom , no food and 96 hours of air , didn’t they ever see appollo 13 ? Well it’s the same thing in the ocean if the submarine didn’t implode what an agonizing death in total darkness and no one’s coming to rescue you my god people value your life more you only have one
Omg, the genuine Titanic experience.
How deep can the deepest submarine crush?
How deep can a submarine dive?
The latest open literature says that a US Los Angeles-class test depth is 450m (1,500 ft), suggesting a maximum depth of 675–900m (2,250–3,000 ft)
They are doomed. They will not be found for a long time. Why? They are all just greasy smears on the inside of that vessel.
Explosive decompression (ED) is violent and too fast for air to escape safely from the lungs and other air-filled cavities in the body such as the sinuses and eustachian tubes, typically resulting in severe to fatal barotrauma. Physics really sucks.
Omg are all msm literslly printed the same paper to read to the public across entire world. Watched 4 news reports in regards to this. 5 people may be dead and all we hear is about beitish billionaire. EVERY life is equally valuable. Why is this dude getting all the attwntion just because he has more money? No one cares about him any more than the other 4 people so either mention them all or dont mention any of them. This industry has also become greedy. 250k to go down in a submersible. With 4 people going down adsuming theres a crew member.. thats 1 milllion per trip. Truly taking advantage of peoples enthusiasm and pockets
I bet they have seen enough now.
This is an extremely dangerous and remote area to launch a rescue missing. Catastrophic failure could have been very probable. My prayers are with the crew and their families
I hope that they are rescued I'm sorry, but properly got more chance on finding Nemo
Unfortunately GPS will not work for vessels deep in the ocean. The depth of the Titanic is well beyond the range of sonar.
Good job
They are charging $250,000 a seat for a floating coffin. That is unbelievable.
Some equipment is ready to leave Guernsey in the Channel Islands BUT held up by "paperwork" to enter the states! Go via Canada , Halifax NS. The time is running out for these people.
$250,000 dollars a seat?! If you paid me $250,000 an hour to go into that tub and down to the Titanic resting site, I wouldn't do it, let alone pay for it!
I pray that (they) find the submersible in time to rescue those people; that is a terrible way to die.
It's crazy that the company operating this wasn't required to have 2 submarines so they could rescue one!!
Something else is going on and this is a cover up.
What joke all these people are 😆
250 thousand dollars to die like a clown at the bottom of the oean 😆 🤣 why are we not extinct yet ffs man
250,000$ 😮😮 who can afford that, when that could go to the poor, widows and orphans in housing, food and clothing. My the Lord comfort the families that are hurting.