Many modern devices search for missing submarines while visiting the Titanic wreck

The Titan submersible is used to take tourists to the Titanic wreck.

AFP news agency reported on June 21 that US and Canadian coast guard ships and planes are searching an area of ​​nearly 20,000 ^square kilometers in the Atlantic Ocean in search of a submarine that went missing while exploring the wreck of the Titanic.

The area is larger than the US state of Connecticut, where the submarine Titan of the US company OceanGate Expeditions went missing on the morning of June 18 with five people on board.

The 6.7-meter-long submersible was designed to dive continuously for 96 hours (four days) and lost contact with the surface ship Polar Prince after diving into an area about 640 kilometers off Newfoundland, Canada.

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A US Navy spokesman said special equipment to lift heavy objects in the deep sea was mobilized to join the rescue effort from the evening of June 20.

The Pentagon said it had dispatched a third C130 and three C-17s, while the French Oceanographic Institute said a deep-sea robot and experts would search the area from June 21.

Rescue efforts are underway, while the incident has prompted many to recall a 2018 lawsuit over the firing of OceanGate Expeditions' former director of marine operations after raising safety concerns about the Titan submersible.

David Lochridge cited the company's "experimental and untested design" in a court filing. The Titan submersible lost contact with the surface ship less than two hours into the dive.

OceanGate Expeditions charges a $250,000 entrance fee per passenger. Among the passengers on the submersible were British billionaire Hamish Harding, a Pakistani businessman, his son and two others.

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The US Navy's deep-sea salvage system was mobilized to rescue the submarine.

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