The Titan Submarine

Hello, friends! On 18th June, 2023, at 9.30 am, 5 people sat in a submarine called Titan and dove into the sea. They were going to see the wreck of the Titanic. The same historical ship Titanic that had sunk in the sea about 100 years ago. This is an extreme form of adventure tourism and it is very expensive. Each person sitting in the submarine had spent more than ₹20 million for a few hours of this tour. This trip is so expensive because Titanic's wreck is hidden deep in the sea. Specifically speaking, 3,810 meters below the surface of the water.

This submarine started its journey under the water. It takes about 2 hours to reach the depth of 3,810 meters. At every 15-minute interval, this submarine sends a signal to the support ship on the surface of the sea, named the Polar Prince. For them, this was the only communication channel with the world. On that day, 18th June, it had been only 1 hour and 45 minutes of this submarine's dive into the sea that suddenly it loses contact with the support ship on the sea. At 4.30 pm by the time when the submarine should have come back up after its tour, there is no sign of it. At 7.10 pm, the team in Polar Prince decided to inform the US Coast Guard. And from here, a 4-day-long multinational search began. A large-scale search and rescue operation is carried out to find this submarine. Aircraft, ships, and robot vehicles were also used. Everyone had only one question in their mind. What happened to these passengers? "The US Coast Guard says that the debris rom the Titan has been brought to the surface from the ocean floor." "The debris is consistent with a catastrophic loss of the pressure chamber." "The arrogance and the hubris that sent that ship to its doom is exactly the same thing that sent those people in the sub to their fate.

Boats and ships use a port to go into the sea and come out of the sea independently. But submersibles cannot do that. To launch a submersible into the water and for it to come back, a support ship is needed. A ship that is present on the surface of the water and is controlling everything. In our case, this support ship was the Polar Prince. This entire operation was run by a company called OceanGate, whose CEO was Stockton Rush. Remember their name because he plays an impThe place where the submersible vanished is in the Atlantic Ocean near Canada. At this place, in the depths of water, you will find the wreck of the Titanic that was broken into two parts.

The bow and the stern both lying about 800 meters away from each other. A submersible called Titan disappeared here and it wasn't a submarine but a submersible. These two words are very similar to each other but there is a very important difference between these two types of boats. A submarine has its own power and can use a port to go into the sea and come out of the sea independently. But a submersible cannot do that.

To launch a submersible into the water and for it to come back, a support ship is needed. A ship that is present on the surface of the water and is controlling everything. In our case, this support ship was the Polar Prince . This entire operation was run by OceanGate whose CEO was Stockton Rush . He will play an important role in what happened next