Sunday, May 19

Is it Too Late? Missing Titanic sub search continues

The wreck of the Titanic, which went down in 1912 on its maiden voyage after colliding with an iceberg and causing the deaths of more than 1,500 people, can be found around 900 miles (1,450 km) east of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and 400 miles (640 km) south of St. John’s, Newfoundland.

The highlight of a tourist adventure offered by OceanGate, which costs $250,000 per participant, was a trip on the Titan to a wreckage deep in the ocean.

Among the passengers was the British billionaire and adventurer Hamish Harding, who was 58 years old, as well as the Pakistani-born business magnate Shahzada Dawood, who was 48, and his son Suleman, who is 19 years old; all of them are British nationals.

Paul-Henri Nargeolet, 77, a French oceanographer and the preeminent authority on the Titanic, and Stockton Rush, the creator of OceanGate in the United States and its chief executive officer, were both on board. Rush is married to a woman who is a descendent of two people who perished on the Titanic.

“We’re waiting anxiously, and we barely sleep,” said Mathieu Johann, Nargeolet’s editor at his publisher, Harper Collins. “We’re hardly sleeping.”

In 2018, during a symposium of submersible industry specialists as well as in a lawsuit filed by OceanGate’s former head of marine operations, which was settled later that year, concerns were expressed over the safety of Titan.

Banging voices heard every 30 minutes

In the event that Titan was discovered intact on the ocean floor, any attempt at rescue would have to overcome the extreme pressures and complete darkness that exist at that depth. According to the British Titanic specialist Tim Maltin, it would be “almost impossible to effectuate a sub-to-sub rescue” on the ocean floor.

It is possible that the Titan will be difficult to locate amidst the wreckage.

According to Jamie Pringle, a forensic geoscientist from Keele University in the United Kingdom, “if you’ve seen the Titanic debris field, there’ll be a thousand different objects that size,” “It might turn out to be an endless task.”

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