A tourist submarine travelling to the wreckage of Titanic at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean has gone missing, according to the BBC.
Search teams from the Boston Coast Guard began looking for the submarine Monday; it isn’t known yet how many people were in the vessel at the time of its disappearance.
Tickets to view the Titanic can be very expensive; as high as $250,000, the New York Post reports, citing OceanGate Expeditions, a company offering similar submarine tours.
The Titanic set out in 1912 from Southampton, England, to New York, but sank on its maiden voyage. Over 1,500 people died in the wreckage, after the ship – thought at the time to be “unsinkable” – struck an iceberg in the Atlantic ocean.
The wreckage of the ship, which had split into two parts while sinking, was discovered in 1985 around 370 miles from the Canadian coast; it was approximately 12,500 feet under the sea.
Source: Hamodia