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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Joe Sommerlad

Toxic gases and claustrophobia: The challenges facing Titanic sub five as they cling on for rescue

OceanGate Expeditions/AFP/Getty

The search for a submarine carrying five people that went missing on its way to view the wreckage of the Titanic continues on Wednesday, with a growing number of ships and aircraft joining the US-Canadian rescue effort.

The Titan sub, which is operated by OceanGate Expeditions and has taken fee-paying customers on tours of the disintegrating remains of the doomed ocean liner since 2021, lost contact with its tracking ship, the Polar Prince, on Sunday afternoon, sparking a desperate race to retrieve it before the air supply inside is exhausted.

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