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Josh Luckhurst

Wreck hunter says 'tapping' heard in Titanic sub hunt amid fears chance of rescue 1%

A wreck hunter has said 'tapping' has been heard during the search for a missing Titanic submersible amid fears the chance of rescue is just one per cent.

David Mearns is a friend of billionaire Brit Hamish Harding - one of the five people onboard the vessel - and says he had seen reports of “tapping” being heard in the water.

Among the five people inside the 22ft long single windowed sub were three Britons; Harding, 58, British-based Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood, 48, and his son Sulaiman Dawood, 19.

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