US Coast Guard offers update on the search efforts for a deep-sea vessel that went missing with five people aboard after it dived toward the deteriorating wreck site of the Titanic Ocean liner.
A French vessel equipped with a deep-sea underwater robot is heading to the North Atlantic to help find the submersible missing near the wreck of the Titanic, the maritime ministry said Tuesday.
The Atalante, currently on a mission for the French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea (IFREMER), should arrive in the area on Wednesday around 6pm GMT, with experts urgently dispatched from the French port of Toulon to operate the robot for its dive, the ministry added.
In a statement, the sea ministry said that Ifremer was sending the vessel “at the request of the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron and in response to a request from the American authorities”.
Paul Henri Nargeolet, 76, the French diver known as “Mr Titanic” and who has spent more time than any other explorer at the wreck of the ill-fated liner, is on board the submersible. Four other people are believed to be on board, including billionaire British businessman Hamish Harding and father and son Shahzada and Sulaiman Dawood.
The location of the search on Monday was approximately 900 miles east of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, in water as deep as 13,000 feet.
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