Divers cancel Titan boarding at the last minute

American diver Concannon said he canceled his plan to board the Titan on June 18 due to urgent matters, and thus escaped the accident.

"I was supposed to go on this tour, but I had to cancel to deal with another emergency," diver David Concannon wrote on Facebook on June 19, announcing that he would not be on the missing Titan submersible.

Concannon added that after the Titan submersible crashed, he was asked to help ensure everyone on board could return safely. "Of course I immediately agreed," he wrote.

Concannon is an advisor to OceanGate Expeditions, a Washington state-based company that began offering tours of the Titanic wreck for about $250,000 per person in 2020. Concannon has extensive experience in deep-water exploration and has visited the Titanic wreck several times.

Diver David Concannon. Photo: Sun

The Titan submersible went missing on June 18 while carrying five people on a tour of the Titanic wreck at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, at a depth of nearly 4,000 meters, about 600 kilometers from Newfoundland, Canada. US and Canadian authorities are deploying a series of planes, ships and equipment to search for and rescue Titan.

Rescuers are racing against time, as Titan only has enough oxygen for 96 hours, as of 6:00 a.m. on June 18. At a press conference at 1:00 p.m. on June 20 (0:00 a.m. on June 21, Hanoi time), Jamie Frederick, a US Coast Guard official, estimated that the remaining oxygen supply was only enough for 40 hours.

The US Coast Guard said on June 21 that a Canadian aircraft assisting in search operations "detected a loud noise underwater" but subsequent searches "yielded negative results."

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