Contact with the small sub was lost about an hour and 45 minutes into its dive, the US Coast Guard said. Tour firm OceanGate said all options were being explored to rescue the five people onboard. Tickets cost $250,000 (£195,000) for an eight-day trip including dives to the wreck at a depth of 3,800m (12,500ft).
How much does it cost? According to the company, the training and support fee is $250,000. The experience includes training, the eight-day mission, and dives to the Titanic aboard what OceanGate says is “the world's only five-person submersible capable of reaching 4,000 meters.” Read more about the vessel here.
OceanGate Expeditions, a company made up of undersea explorers, scientists, and filmmakers offers the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. According to the company, since the discovery of the Titanic 37 years ago, fewer than 250 people have personally seen the ship that sits about 2.5 miles below the ocean's surface.
Situated in 3,800 metres of water approximately 380 miles south-east of St John's in Newfoundland, the Titanic wreck was last visited by humans in 2005. The EYOS Expeditions team deployed the Triton submersible Limiting Factor from research vessel Pressure Drop and conducted several dives to the wreck over 10 days.
Oceanographers have pointed out that the hostile sea environment has wreaked havoc on the ship's remains after more than a century beneath the surface. Saltwater acidity has been dissolving the vessel, compromising its integrity to the point where much of it would crumble if tampered with.
"We've seen pairs of shoes, which would strongly suggest there was a body there at one point. But we've never seen any human remains,” said Cameron.
Since no one owns the Titanic, people are free to recover items from the ship if they are able. The United States granted “salvor-in-possession” status to RMST giving them the legal and exclusive rights to retrieve items from the wreck.
Some relatives of passengers who died on RMS Titanic condemned the project to build a replica ship as insensitive. Blue Star Line was flooded with inquiries from potential customers, some offering up to GBP 640,000 to book Titanic 2's inaugural cruise. The replica ship is expected to enter service in 2024 or 2025.
Three small dogs, two Pomeranians and a Pekingese, survived the Titanic disaster cradled in their owners' arms as they climbed into lifeboats.
Going to be launched in 2022, the current project of Titanic II is under the renowned Australian businessman and politician Clive Palmer.
John Jacob Astor was the wealthiest passenger aboard Titanic. He was the head of the Astor family, with a personal fortune of approximately $150,000,000. Born on 13 July 1864 to William Astor, he was educated at St. Paul's School, Concord and later went to Harvard.
This is because expeditions to its site, pollution and bacteria break up its debris. It is expected to be gone by 2050.
Norah Callaghan and Annie Jordan had tickets to board the Titanic but did not. Jordan developed a rash that kept her from traveling, and records from another White Star ship, the Celtic, show Callaghan boarding that ship on April 12, 1912, just one day after the Titanic left Queenstown.
While we cannot know for sure how he spent his final moments, it is known that Captain Edward Smith perished in the North Atlantic along with 1517 others on April 15, 1912. His body was never recovered.
The average lifespan of an iceberg in the North Atlantic typically is two to three years from calving to melting. This means the iceberg that sank the Titanic "likely broke off from Greenland in 1910 or 1911, and was gone forever by the end of 1912 or sometime in 1913."
Of the 337 bodies recovered, 119 were buried at sea. 209 were brought back to Halifax. 59 were claimed by relatives and shipped to their home communities. The remaining 150 victims are buried in three cemeteries: Fairview Lawn, Mount Olivet and Baron de Hirsch.
Captain Smith having done all man could do for the safety of passengers and crew remained at his post on the sinking ship until the end. His last message to the crew was 'Be British. '"
It's unlikely the shipwreck of the Titanic will ever be raised. Reported by ABC in 2012 on the one hundredth anniversary of the ship's sinking, Ballard explained that raising the ship “would destroy it.”
If the Titanic hadn't sunk, it would likely have taken another similar disaster to put that lifesaving policy into effect. Besides: even if the Titanic's maiden voyage had been successful, its life as a passenger ship would likely have been interrupted in about two more years.
John Jacob Astor IV (July 13, 1864 – April 15, 1912) was an American business magnate, real estate developer, investor, writer, lieutenant colonel in the Spanish–American War, and a prominent member of the Astor family. He died in the sinking of the RMS Titanic during the early hours of April 15, 1912.
Design and construction. The gross tonnage of the replica will be 56,000 GT, about 10,000 GT more than that of the original.
Titanic 2 Plans To Complete Its Namesake's Doomed Journey In 2022.