Heartbreak as deadline for oxygen supply on missing Titanic submarine passes
dailyrecord.co.ukThe deadline to find the missing Titanic sub has passed and all of the oxygen has ran out on the vessel.A frantic international effort was scrambled to try and find the five passengers stuck on the Titan sub before the four-day oxygen supply expired.
A US Coast Guard spokesperson previously said it will run out at exactly 12.08pm in the UK this afternoon.The craft submerged Sunday morning, and the support vessel subsequently lost contact with it about an hour and 45 minutes afterwards.Rescue teams were looking for Pakistani British-based businessman Shahzada Dawood and his son, Sulaiman Dawood, 19, French submersible pilot Paul-Henry Nargeolet, and chief executive and founder of OceanGate Expeditions, Stockton Rush.
The Horizon Arctic ship travelled 400 miles overnight across the Atlantic and arrived at the site of Titanic wreckage site last night after travelling 400 miles overnight across the Atlantic Ocean from Canada.
The vessel arrived with heavy duty cables and it was reported to be the last major support ship to arrive before the oxygen on the submersible runs out, according to the US Coast Guard.
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