17:20, 23/06/2023
Introduced as a “once in a lifetime” experience, the adventure tour to the ocean floor to see the Titanic wreck costs more than 5.8 billion VND.
According to CNN, OceanGate Expeditions (headquartered in Everett, Washington state, USA) started offering tours to see the Titanic wreck at a cost of about 250,000 USD (about 5.8 billion VND) per person from 2020.
The eight-day cruise takes guests to explore the Titanic more than 13,000 feet below the ocean's surface in a five-seat carbon-fiber and titanium submarine.
The trip starts from Newfoundland (Canada), passengers will travel about 400 nautical miles to the Titanic wreck site, about 1,450 km off the coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts (USA).
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The Titanic wreck discovery tour, priced at VND5.8 billion, is an adventure travel journey only for the extremely wealthy. Photo taken from the exploration submersible. |
According to submersible service provider OceanGate, the Titan is made of carbon fiber and titanium, weighs about 11.5 tons and has safety features to monitor the entire structure of the ship.
A CBS reporter who traveled on the Titan in 2022 said that the inside of the ship was quite small, with little furniture, and only one toilet. The ship only had one window for visitors to look out.
With no underwater GPS, the submersible guided by text messages from support ships above. The CBS reporter's trip also encountered a situation where communication equipment failed for more than 2 hours.
The trip is part of adventure tourism reserved for the extremely wealthy.
The five people on the Titan ship that were believed to have exploded during the journey to explore the Titanic wreckage this time included several billionaires such as Hamish Harding (British), OceanGate Expeditions founder Stockton Rush, Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman.
Previously, on June 18, the Titan went missing in the Atlantic Ocean while on a tour of the Titanic wreck. Later, on June 22, the US Coast Guard announced that it had found debris from the missing Titan submersible carrying five people to visit the Titanic wreck.
According to vietnamnet.vn
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