The US sends another submersible to the rescue of the lost tourist submarine with 5 people on its way to the Titanic

USA is sending a submersible to the area of ​​the Atlantic where the search tasks of the tourist submarine disappeared since Sunday night and that transported a group of people to the remains of the titanic.

The United States Coast Guard as well as the canadian armed forces participate in the search and rescue tasks of the submarine “Titan” of the company Ocean Gate Expeditions and is believed to be carrying five people.

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mi’sel joehead of the Canadian indigenous group that owns the mother ship “Polar Prince” from which the “Titan” was launched on Sunday on its trip to the titanictold Canadian public broadcaster CBC that USA has sent another submersible by air to participate in the rescue efforts.

Joe added that the alarm was raised when the “Titan” gave no signal on Sunday night, two hours after the time it was due to return to the surface.

He Joint Rescue Coordination Center of Halifax (Canada), where rescue efforts are concentrated in the Atlantic north, said on Twitter that he is helping the Maritime Rescue Coordination Center of Boston (USA) in the search operation for the Titan.

Canadian authorities have sent the area, located about 380 nautical miles (700 kilometers) south of Saint John of NewfoundlandCoast Guard ship Kopit Hopson 1752 as well as a maritime patrol plane Lockheed CP-140 Aurora.

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The “Titan”, towed by the ship “Polar Prince”, had departed on Friday from San Juan de Newfoundland (Canada) to the site of the sinking of the Titanic, according to local Canadian media.

The Premier of the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Andrew Fureysaid on Twitter that he is confident that “the US Coast Guard will locate the submarine and its passengers very soon”.

“Newfoundland and Labrador has a long history connecting it to the wreck of the Titanic, with tourists leaving our port to visit the siteFurey added.

Source: Elcomercio

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