Titanic sub disaster one year on: How the world watched a tragedy unfold over four days
Today marks one year since the Titan submersible slipped beneath the waves of the North Atlantic Ocean and sparked one of the most extraordinary search and rescue missions in recent memory.
Offering commercial trips to the most famous shipwreck in history, the company behind the Titan, OceanGate, charged $250,000 a trip in the “Titanic tourist sub”.
The only manned visit to the wreck last year had people around the world watching with bated breath after the Titan lost contact with the surface an hour and 45 minutes into its dive.
What followed was a dramatic search above and below the water before the sub’s estimated 96 hours of emergency oxygen supply ran out.
The rescue operation – which at one point offered a glimmer of hope when intermittent banging noises were heard by experts – ultimately ended in tragedy when the remains of the submersible were discovered near the bow of the Titanic.
This is a full timeline of the Titan submersible disaster and its aftermath.
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News of the mission to the Titanic was broken by one of the Titan’s passengers, British explorer Hamish Harding, who took to Instagram on 17
