SVALBARD, Norway - A friend of one of the passengers on board the submersible vessel that went missing on a trip to explore the wreckage of the Titanic said that 'every single minute' felt like hours as time ticked away to find them alive. Speaking from Svalbard in Norway on Tuesday (June 20), Jannicke Mikkelsen said she was not sleeping...
SVALBARD, Norway - A friend of one of the passengers on board the submersible vessel that went missing on a trip to explore the wreckage of the Titanic said that "every single minute" felt like hours as time ticked away to find them alive.
One pilot and four passengers were inside the submersible early on Sunday when it lost communication with a ship on the surface about an hour and 45 minutes into its dive to see the wreckage of the Titanic in deep waters off Canada's coast.Mikkelsen said Harding was "being branded as a UK billionaire going for a sightseeing trip to the Titanic". But, she said, expeditions were also for scientific research.
The Titanic expeditions start in St John's, Newfoundland, before heading out approximately 640 kilometres into the Atlantic to the wreckage site, according to the website of Oceangate, the private company that operates the submersible vessel. Mikkelsen said she last spoke to Harding right before his dive to the Titanic and wished him "godspeed".
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