Submersible on Titanic Tour Reported Missing off Canadian Coast
- U.S. Navy
The company also stated: "We pray for the safe return of the crew and passengers, and we will provide updates as they are available."
It offers paying customers the opportunity to explore the wreckage of the Titanic. One of the passengers was Hamish Harding, who worked for the sales company Action Aviation.Â
"This is on the site of a wreckage, the wreckage of the Titanic, and so there's a lot of debris on the bottom, and locating an object on the bottom will be difficult," Mauger informed.Â
"We have lives that are potentially at risk," he said.
On April 14, 1912, the Titanic hit an iceberg on its maiden voyage from England to New York. Over 2,200 passengers and crew were on board, and more than 1,500 people died when the ship sank. The ship wreckage was found in 1985, almost 12,500 feet below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean.Â