Tickets cost $250,000 ( over two crore rupees) for an eight-day trip, including dives to the wreck at a depth of 3,800m.Ī search operation is underway in an area in the ocean "larger than the state of Connecticut", about 20,000 sq. The missing vessel is tour firm OceanGate's Titan submersible, a truck-sized sub that holds five people and usually dives with a four-day emergency oxygen supply. It is unclear when and how long the banging lasted.Īccording to the Coast Guard, the submarine was lost about an hour and 45 minutes into its dive to the Titanic's wreckage in the Atlantic on June 18. Before the official confirmation by the US Coast Guard, several American media outlets citing internal US government memos reported that a Canadian search aircraft detected "banging" in 30-minute intervals coming from the area where the sub disappeared on June 18. This is the first official confirmation from authorities conducting the search operation, although they did not specify what the "banging" sounds were, reports the BBC. "Additionally, the data from the P-3 aircraft has been shared with our US Navy experts for further analysis, which will be considered in future search plans." Those ROV searches have yielded negative results but continue. As a result, ROV operations were relocated to explore the origin of the noises. In a series of tweets, the Coast Guard said: "Canadian P-3 aircraft detected underwater noises in the search area. The US Coast Guard on Wednesday confirmed that a Canadian P-3 aircraft "detected underwater noises in the search area" for the missing tourist submarine with five people on board.
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