Titanic Tourist Sub Missing With Major Search And Rescue Operation Underway

A sub used to take tourists to see the wreckage of the Titanic has vanished with five people on board, including a Brit billionaire.

Rescue crews are frantically searching the Atlantic Ocean after the £200,000-a-head voyage disappeared.

Five people are on board the missing sub, the US Coastguard has confirmed.

One of them has been named as aviator and businessman Hamish Harding.

The 58-year-old is known as one of the leaders of the record-breaking mission to orbit the Earth via both poles in 2019.

The Chairman of the British Titanic Society has told TalkTV of the missing submersible that, “when you undertake a dive such as this, the passengers and the crew, they do realise the possibility of an incident such as this happening.”

David Scott-Beddard gave his thoughts on the incident and the craft - which is used to take tourists to the site of the Titanic wreck - on Jeremy Kyle Live, and said he hopes and prays the divers come back safely.

Jeremy asked Scott-Beddard for his reaction to what has happened.

He said, “It’s clearly very distressing news. This is the first incidence of this type since Titanic was discovered in September of 1985, so primarily our thoughts are with the crew and members of the public who are tourists onboard the submersible.”

[artemis]

I have studied the Titanic since it was found by Dr. Ballard in 1985 and while i find it a fascinating wreck, i would never go down to visit the wreck. For this very reason. I actually fear the deep ocean so the idea of being possibly stuck on the bottom with no way of returning freaks me out.

[parker-iifg]

Tourist dives to the wreck site were always morally wrong in my opinion.

It is a gravesite for 1500 souls who were tragically lost on that infamous night, and should be respected as such. It should be left alone to let nature take its course.

Pray that the sub is discovered and those on board are rescued.

[BlueSteel]

That Titanic wreck should be declared an international NO GO ZONE to prevent anything like this happening again.

[galaxiedance]

They must be dead! Even the slightest problem with the hull under those pressures are catastrophic! If it collapsed, those people didn't even know they died!

[BIASED_YOUTUBE]

they have 96 hours of oxygen if they haven't had a catastrophic implosion. though that may be a calculation for 3 people and they have 5 on board so it may be even less time. they need to be found in this time or its game over. they may have also damaged the wreck if it did implode. this will end commercial dives to titanic

[Roc-Righteous]

If it imploded, they died before they could blink.

[liliagourley]

Leave the Titanic alone it's a grave site, for those that lost their lives that terrible night.

[catylynch]

Why is the news any sadder, when they learn that one of the passengers is a

[henryroot]

Maybe they will now leave the site alone and stop exploiting it...

[sophiagraham]

$250, 000 DOLLARS A SEAT AND SO MANY PEOPLE HOMELESS AND HUNGRY .COULD'VE HELP SOMEONE.

[mellaanne]

Sure private companies will have better chance of finding it than government. Please find them. It’s terrifying

[joemasse]

These 3 people who paid to go down 13000, feet obviously have way more money than they know what to do with, I hope for the best, but people shouldn’t put themselves in terrible danger, just so they can Bragg about their experience?

[lindamorton]

It’s time to leave the Titanic site alone! Let the dead rest in peace!

[MikelZappy]

It’s a submersible not a submarine their is a difference!!.

[ShockkgyalNuhplayEntertainment]

Praying these people are found Safe and well. The world were living in doesn’t seem real anymore

[wattage]

I wonder if it's experienced a hull failure. Pretty quick way to go if that were the case.

[oliversherman]

Imagine the terror of being a tourist on a submersible knowing that you're stuck more than 2 miles under the ocean

[audreymcleod]

God help these people. No way would I go down in one of those things why would you want to see the graves. Of all these poor people leave it in peace

[audreymcleod]

Yes we learn about it in schools and such but leave alone a grave. Sight.

[ge]

Sounds like some huge, giant mistake but I can't find the right word for what kind of mistake...