Rescuers descended on the North Atlantic, desperately searching for a submersible vessel that was headed to the wreck of the Titanic but is now missing with five people aboard and less than two days of oxygen remaining.
The U.S. Coast Guard and the Canadian Joint Rescue Coordination Centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia, were on the scene, about 900 nautical miles east of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. France dispatched a research vessel equipped with an underwater robot that can reach as deep as 13,120 feet, enough to reach the site of sunken passenger ship.
“There is a full-court press effort to get equipment on scene as quickly as we can,” U.S. Coast Guard Captain Jamie Frederick said at a news briefing in Boston Tuesday.
