The submersible vessel that vanished during a dive to the Titanic shipwreck may have experienced one of the so-called trinity of disasters that all such expeditions seek to avoid.
“It was my second dive to the Titanic,” he said. He was inside a Russian Mir submersible when it landed on the floor of the Titanic’s pilot house and became entangled in wires. “When it came time to go up, we couldn’t. It was a thick adrenaline moment.”
That self-rescue ability — either with a second sub or a remotely operated vehicle that can be flown quickly to the site — is crucial on these types of expeditions, said MacInnis. France has dispatched a research vessel, the Atalante, equipped with an underwater robot to reach the missing craft. Five passengers are known to be on the submersible: adventurer Hamish Harding, founder of investment group Action Aviation; Stockton Rush, founder of OceanGate Expeditions, which is running the expedition; Engro Corp’s vice chairman Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman; and French maritime expert Paul-Henry Nargeolet.
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