Missing Titanic tourist vessel: Best and worst-case scenarios

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The best-case scenario is that Titan had lost communication or power. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Do submersibles need a crew?

Dr Williams, who works with unmanned submersibles, compared the rise in interest to space tourism, where there is also an “appetite to experience these sorts of things first-hand”. If so, its safety system may have kicked in, dropping a weight that sent it up to the surface, where the submersible would be waiting to be found by rescuers.

In this case finding the Titan would be very difficult – as would swiftly deploying a mission to try to float or drag the submersible back to the surface, he said.

 

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