Week-long expeditions to the Titanic are set to depart from St. John's, N.L., this June, in the first manned surveys of the decaying vessel since 2005.
Stockton Rush, CEO of OceanGate Expeditions, the U.S. company running the show, defended the hefty price tag, saying the trip is more than worthwhile for an experience he said is more rare than space travel.
"If you can board an airplane on your own and haul your bag into the luggage container, you probably can do this," he said. Bacterial damage done to the vessel since the last robotic survey in 2010 may have revealed previously unseen corners of the wreck, Rush said, possibly exposing more artifacts and personal effects from the so-called unsinkable ship's drowned travellers.
Larry Daley, a local logistics specialist, said the attention to Newfoundland could be "huge" for the local economy, and for preservation of the Titanic's tragic story. "They're bringing people in from all over the world that are going to get to experience what I did, but on a new platform, new technology and so on. And it's going to draw eyes back on Titanic again," Daley said.
Barring other unpredictable catastrophes, Rush said the sub is ready to go this summer, and said he hopes the Titan will return to the wreck for years to come.
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