When OceanGate Expeditions began operations, they boasted of having the only privately\u002Downed vehicles capable of reaching the Titanic
Although media reports said the search was being conducted “off the coast of Canada,” that’s only technically true: The search area is a remote patch of the North Atlantic more than 600 kilometres from Newfoundland.The isolation of the area is one of the reasons that the Titanic disaster was so deadly; although many vessels heard the liner’s wireless calls for distress, none were close enough to get to the ship before it had foundered and most of its passengers had died of exposure.
, and four times deeper than the lowest depth ever reached by a conventional U.S. Navy submarine. Merely descending to the wreck takes about two hours.This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.It wasn’t until after the Second World War that marine technologists — most notably the French oceanographer Jacques Cousteau — were able to pioneer the development of submersibles that could reach the bottom of the mid-Atlantic without getting crushed.
To this day, there’s still only a handful of vehicles that can safely carry humans to the wreck, almost all of which are in the hands of militaries and research institutions. The wreck was first explored in the 1980s with ALVIN, a research submersible owned by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. And when Canadian filmmaker James Cameron dove to the site to shoot footage for his 1997 blockbuster Titanic, he hired Mir 1 and Mir 2; deep-sea submersibles operated by the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Ever since the 1990s, there has been a steady trickle of sightseeing expeditions to the Titanic wreck. The two Mir submersibles were contracted for a tourist expedition
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