Submarine went down 3800 meters to show tourists the debris of Titanic, missing in the sea! Read, why do people go to see the debris?
The tourist submarine ‘Titan’, carrying people to see the wreckage of the Titanic ship, went missing in the Atlantic Ocean on Sunday. There was a pilot and 4 passengers on board the Titan submarine. Among them are Britain’s billionaire businessman Hamish Harding and Pakistan’s businessman Shahzada Dawood with his son. Ships and planes from America and Canada have been sent to find the submarine.
According to The Guardian, on the afternoon of June 18, the submarine disappeared from radar 1.45 hours after entering the water. Rear Admiral John Mauger of the US Coast Guard said, “We are estimating that we have 70 hours to 96 hours to find the submarine.” According to Reuters, this submarine has 96 hours of oxygen. .
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America-Canada rescue team is searching in an area of 900 miles
It is not known whether the submarine is still in the water or has come to the surface. A US-Canadian rescue team has launched a search about 900 miles (1,450 km) east of Cape Cod. Apart from this, sonar-buoys have also been released in the water, which can monitor up to a depth of 13 thousand feet. Apart from this, help is also being sought from commercial ships.
According to some media reports, Stockton Rush, CEO of Ocean Gate Company and French pilot Paul-Henri Nargolet are also present in this submarine.
Now let’s understand this incident sequentially…
- Why do people visit the wreckage of the Titanic?
- The world’s largest steam-based passenger ship Titanic set out on its maiden voyage on 10 April 1912, which also proved to be its last voyage. The journey that started from Southampton, UK was to be completed in New York, USA. Four days later, on 14–15 April, it collided with an iceberg and sank in the Atlantic Ocean. Of the 2,200 passengers and crew on board, more than 1,500 were killed. Its wreck in the sea was discovered in 1985.
Where is this debris in the ocean? - The wreckage of the Titanic is in the Atlantic Ocean, 700 kilometers from St. John’s in Newfoundland, Canada. The Submarine’s tour begins in Newfoundland. It takes 2 hours. This debris is at a depth of 3800 meters in the ocean. The Titanic ship sank 111 years ago.
It takes 2 crore rupees to see the wreckage of Titanic - The submarine is Ocean Gate Company’s Titan Submersible. Its size is equal to that of a truck. This submarine is made of carbon fiber. There is a fee of Rs 2 crore per person to go to see the wreckage of Titanic.
Video of passengers going to see the debris was released in February
In February this year, a video of one of the previous visits to the wreck was released on YouTube. It contained 80 minutes of uncut footage. Then in May the first full size 3-D scan of the ship’s wreckage was also published. The wreckage was reconstructed in high resolution photos. Deep sea mapping technique was used for this.
In 2022, the deep-sea mapping company Magellan Ltd. and Atlantic Productions, who are making a documentary about the project, undertook the reconstruction. Experts who spent more than 200 hours surveying the wreckage on the floor of the Atlantic took more than 700,000 photos from a remotely controlled submersible to create the scan.
