redstate.com By streiffÂ
Sunday, surface contact was lost with a commercial submersible carrying tourists to view the wreck of the RMS Titanic. The Titan, an experimental craft run by OceanGate Expeditions, lost contact with its surface support ship about 1 hour and 45 minutes into its planned 12,500-foot descent carrying one crew member and four passengers who paid $250,000 each for the experience. Though the air supply on the submersible runs out Thursday, there was fresh hope that the crew might still be alive Wednesday when aircraft-deployed sonobuoys detected âbangingâ at regular intervals.
Aboard the Titan are Hamish Harding, a 58-year-old British businessman and explorer; British businessman Shahzada Dawood and his son, Suleman Dawood, 19; 77-year-old French explorer Paul-Henry Nargeolet, and Oceangate CEO Stockton Rush…
