Searchers are scouring the North Atlantic for a missing submersible that had been due to take passengers to visit the wreckage of the Titanic.
Here is what we know so far:The 6.5-meter craft began its descent on Sunday but lost contact with the surface less than two hours later, according to authorities.
Harding, a 58-year-old aviator, space tourist, and chairman of Action Aviation, had posted Sunday on his Instagram account that he was proud to join OceanGate's Titanic mission."As of now, contact has been lost with their submersible craft and there is limited information available," their family said in a statement.
Searchers have been scanning a remote area of the North Atlantic where the Titanic rests 650 kilometres off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada, and some 4,000 metres underwater.The US Coast Guard says it launched two planes and its Canadian counterparts have also sent a plane and a ship.The wreck lies in two main pieces at the bottom of the AtlanticUS Coast Guard Rear Admiral John Mauger told reporters in Boston on Monday that he believed it still had 70 or more hours remaining.
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