They are chilling the latest images of the small submarine Titan before disappearing into Titanic wreck.

Abby Jackson, 22, an employee of OceanGate Expeditions who was on board the ship Polar Prince which was transporting the submersible Titan to the area of ​​the wreck, recorded on video the moment the small submarine prepares to dive with its 5 passengers for a Titanic exploration mission.

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Tragedy unfolds in the icy waters off the east coast of Canada, where the Titanic sank in 1912. The wreck of it is located at a depth of approximately 3,800 meterseast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA.

The 6.7 meter long submersible Titan began its descent towards the Titanic wreck at 08:00 on the morning of Sunday (local time, 15:00 Greek time). He lost contact with the support ship he detached from after about an hour and 45 minutes, that is, minutes before reaching the famous wreck.

Meanwhile – after hopes were revived by the detection of sounds yesterday from the bottom of the sea – the hopes for locating and rescuing the 5 unfortunate passengers of the “Titan” they dry up as cabin oxygen runs out at 2pm.

A multinational search and rescue team is searching every inch of the sea for a fifth day today to the site of the wreck of the Titanic, in a race against time to locate the submarine.

There are five people on board the deep-sea Titan: 58-year-old British billionaire Hamish Harding, 48-year-old Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood with his 19-year-old son, 77-year-old French oceanographer and Titanic expert Paul-Henri Narzolet and Stockton Rush, founder and head of OceanGate.

“This is an extremely difficult time for the families of the crew members who disappeared with the Titan”US Coast Guard Chief Jamie Frederick said during a press conference from Boston. “When you’re in the middle of a search and rescue operation, you always hope”he added.

Tragedy at the bottom…

Meanwhile, a French robot that can dive to a depth of 6,000 meters rushes to where the submersible is believed to be.

It’s about unmanned robot Victor 6000 can help free the submersible, if it is trapped somewhere, its operator reported. The French robot has remote-controlled arms with which it can cut cables or perform other maneuvers to free a stuck vessel. It can also dive to a greater depth from all other equipment currently at the wreck site.

But…

Even if Titan is found, bringing it to the surface will be a difficult task, due to the high pressure and complete darkness that prevails at those depths.

If it has already managed to return to the surface, locating it in the vast sea will be difficult, while it is locked from the outsidewhich means that the occupants cannot exit the submersible without outside assistance.

Questions about the safety of the deep vessel were raised in 2018 during a symposium of industry experts, and later that year OceanGate’s former head of marine operations, David Lochridge, took legal action against the company after he raised serious concerns about Titan’s safety and was fired .

According to him, the porthole at the front of the submarine is designed to withstand the pressure at 1,300 meters depth, not 4,000 meters.