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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Ariana Baio and Rachel Sharp

Zero contact in four days and oxygen exhausted: What we know about missing Titanic sub

Reuters/Jannicke Mikkelsen/OceanGate Expeditions/Getty

It was due to be a once-in-a-lifetime trip, travelling to the ocean floor and the chance to view what few people have ever done – the 111-year-old wreck of the Titanic.

A British billionaire explorer, a Pakistani-British father and son, a French diver and the chief executive of the submersible tourist company boarded the OceanGate Expedition’s submersible, the Titan, full of a spirit of adventure and excitement.

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