Key takeaways:
- Five people were on board the missing submersible, including at least three paying passengers
- The search is being led by the Coast Guard and is being conducted in an area of the North Atlantic that is more than two miles below the ocean’s surface
- The submersible is made of off-the-shelf, improvised parts, and the search is expected to be a difficult one
Search efforts are ongoing for a small submersible that went missing on Sunday while on an expedition to the Titanic wreckage site in the North Atlantic. The submersible, operated by Washington state-based company OceanGate Expeditions, had five people on board, including at least three paying passengers.
David Pogue, a correspondent for CBS News’ “Sunday Morning,” was aboard the vessel and spoke with the company behind it, OceanGate Expeditions, and its CEO, Stockton Rush. In an interview on CBS, Pogue described his own anxiety before getting inside the minivan-sized submersible, including when the craft got lost underwater for several hours when communications broke down.
Unconfirmed reports said the two professional crew members on the sub were OceanGate’s CEO and founder, Stockton Rush, and a French veteran of deep-sea exploration. The Coast Guard is currently leading the search efforts, with a spokesperson saying they are “doing everything that we can do” to locate the sub.
The search is being conducted in an area of the North Atlantic that is more than two miles below the ocean’s surface. The submersible is made of off-the-shelf, improvised parts, and the search is expected to be a difficult one. As of Tuesday morning, the submersible has not yet been located.
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