Posted on 06/20/23
| News Source: i24
One of the passengers on board has been identified as British businessman Hamish Harding
The U.S. Coast Guard continues searching for a missing submarine that disappeared near the Titanic wreck with five people on board.
The 21-foot craft, operated by OceanGate Expeditions, began its descent on Sunday but lost contact with the surface less than two hours later, according to authorities. The U.S. Coast Guard said it had launched two planes to survey the remote area in the North Atlantic, while its Canadian counterparts had also sent a plane and a ship.
"It is a challenge to conduct a search in that remote area, but we are deploying all available assets to make sure that we can locate the craft and rescue the people on board," U.S. Coast Guard Rear Admiral John Mauger told reporters in Boston, where he was overseeing the operation.
Time is a critical factor. The vessel has a range of 96 hours for the crew of five, and Mauger said Monday afternoon he believed it still had 70 or more hours of remaining oxygen.