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Search intensifies for missing Titanic tourist sub with 5 aboard

A US Coast Guard vessel sits in port in Boston Harbor across from the US Coast Guard Station Boston in Boston, Massachusetts, on June 19, 2023. A submersible vessel used to take tourists to see the wreckage of the Titanic in the North Atlantic has gone missing, triggering a search-and-rescue operation, the US Coast Guard said on June 19, 2023. It was not immediately...

Search and rescue teams racing against the clock Tuesday have still not been able to locate a submersible that vanished with five people aboard in a remote area of the Atlantic Ocean on an expedition to explore the Titanic wreck.

The mission is a complex search effort requiring expertise and equipment that spans multiple agencies, including the U.S. Coast Guard and the Navy, the Canadian armed forces and coast guard and OceanGate Expeditions, which owns and operates the missing sub, Capt. Jamie Frederick, a response coordinator with the First Coast Guard District, said at a news conference Tuesday.

Officials said the effort covers an area of about 7,600 square miles, or larger than the state of Connecticut, focusing both on surface and subsurface search.

“To date, those search efforts have not yielded any results,” Frederick

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