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Even though there’s little for researchers to gain from the wreckage site now, there’s still an extraordinary level of cultural interest in visiting the Titanic’s final resting place, OceanGate Expeditions established itself in 2009 to offer private citizens an opportunity to see what few have, if you can afford it: the company charges $250,000 per person for a submersible tour of the wreck.
During a press conference, the United States Coast Guard officials said the five people within Titan have roughly 40 hours of breathable air left. Capt. Jamie Frederick said that crews were “doing everything possible” as part of a “complex search effort.” But so far, he said, those efforts “have not yielded any results,” per theHarding acknowledged in a 2021 interview that he had taken on deep-sea missions in the past knowing that rescue would not be an option.
In 1939, during another training mission, the USS Squalus carrying 56 Navy personnel and three civilians were on board. An air valve in the engine room failed which flooded the compartment. The sub was under 240 of water, and so 26 immediately perished. A newly-developed rescue chamber was used to bring the rest of the surviving crew to the surface.
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