This would likely include strain gauges to monitor the health of the Titan’s carbon fibre hull. It also has a “real-time hull health monitoring (RTM) system”. Although submersibles are often connected to a surface vessel by a tether, video and photos suggest the Titan was likely operating independently of the surface ship.Īccording to OceanGate’s website, the Titan is used “for site survey and inspection, research and data collection, film and media production, and deep-sea testing of hardware and software”. The Titan is about 22 feet (6.7m) in length, with speeds of about 3 knots (or 5.5km per hour).
The missing submersible in question is an OceanGate Titan watercraft, which can take five people to depths of up to 4,000m.
Unlike submarines, they usually have a viewport to allow passengers look outside, and outside cameras that provide a broader view around the submersible. They’re often used for research and exploration purposes, including to search for shipwrecks and to document underwater environments. Submersibles are manned watercraft that move in a similar fashion to submarines, but within a much more limited range. OceanGate’s Titan submersible goes missing Here’s what the search and rescue teams are up against. Finding an underwater vehicle the size of a small bus in this vast and remote expanse of ocean will be no small feat. The Titanic’s wreck sits some 3,800 metres deep in the Atlantic, about 700km south of St John’s, Newfoundland.
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As of Monday afternoon (Tuesday morning in Australia), US Coast Guard Rear Admiral John Mauger said the watercraft likely had somewhere between 70 and the full 96 hours of oxygen available to the passengers. The expedition was being run by US company OceanGate as part of an eight-day trip with guests paying US$250,000 per head to visit the wreck site. The vessel was reported overdue at 9.13pm local time on Sunday (12.13pm AEST, Monday). An extensive search and rescue operation is underway to locate a commercial submersible that went missing during a dive to the Titanic shipwreck.Īccording to the US Coast Guard, contact with the submersible was lost about one hour and 45 minutes into the dive, with five people onboard.
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