The submarine “Titan” is equipped with life-support equipment, including oxygen for 96 hours, and it can reach a depth of 4000 meters.
There is little information about the "OceanGate's Titan" submarine, which was carrying 3 tourists, including a British billionaire who has been living in Dubai for many years, when communication with it was lost, while it was over the wreckage of the "Titanic" sunken under the waters of the Atlantic Ocean. All that is known about it is that it weighs 10,432 kilograms. And its journey, which usually lasts 8 days at most, begins from the coast of Newfoundland, far in eastern Canada, 592 km from the sunken “Titanic” wreck at a depth of 3800 meters, where each full dive that the “submersible” takes to inspect it lasts approximately 8 hours, half of which is for descent and ascent, according to Listed on the site of the OceanGate company, which owns 3 submarines.
However, the “Titan”, which accommodates 5 people, who are 3 tourists, each of whom pays 250 thousand dollars to make the trip, in addition to a captain and an “content expert” engineer, is the only one capable of “submersing” it among the three submarines, as in the world, to descend to what It is enough to reach the remains of the most famous sunken ship in its final resting place in the world, according to what Al-Arabiya.net read in its biography, which is also mentioned in it, that it is equipped with life-support means, including oxygen for 96 hours, and it can reach 4000 meters in depth, and we see it in the video shown. And it continues. The submarine "Titan" with its base usually every 15 minutes, broadcasting a ping or a high-pitched "clang", which did not continue after the last "clang" it broadcast at 3 pm Sunday GMT, after which it was disconnected from the surface for at least 7 hours, and it was That time is directly above the “Titanic”, with the 59-year-old British billionaire Hamish Harding on board.
Soon, a distress call was sent to the US Coast Guard branch in Boston to locate the submarine, and to send a rescue boat that needs two days to get there,” according to what a source from the company said, expressing his belief that the “submersible” known as Submersible in English, may have been trapped in The bottom near the wreckage, the weight of which lowered it.
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