Titanic Tourist Submarine: A submarine carrying people to view the wreckage of the Titanic has gone missing in the Atlantic Ocean. Search and rescue operation has been launched to track the submarine. However, it is not clear how many people were on board when it went missing.
The BBC quoted the Boston Coastguard as saying that a submarine carrying people to see the wreckage of the Titanic has gone missing in the Atlantic Ocean. Reports say a search and rescue operation is underway for the submarine off the coast of Newfoundland.
The wreckage of the Titanic lies 3800 meters below the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. The wreck is about 600 km off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada.
Titanic was the largest ship of its time
Titanic was the largest ship of its time. On 15 April 1912 set out on her journey from England to New York. But was sunk after hitting an iceberg on the way. There were 2200 passengers on board. There were more than 1500 crew members. Everyone had died.
The deep-sea wreck was discovered in 1985 and has been explored by experts ever since. A video from one of the previous visits to the wreck was released in February this year. which offered 80 minutes of uncut footage of the remains of the ship. In May the first full-size 3D scans of the shipwreck were published. Which included high-resolution images created using deep ocean mapping.
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