A submersible which takes vacationers to see the wreck of the Titanic has gone lacking, Sky News understands.

It isn't clear how many individuals, if any, have been on board on the time, and it's understood that coastguards are in search of the vessel within the North Atlantic Ocean.

Sky News has situated the Polar Prince tugboat that's on the water round 700m away from the Titanic wreck web site, through the web site MarineTraffic.

The tugboat is used to move submersibles.

The most important distinction between a submersible and a submarine, is that the previous wants a mom ship that may launch it and get well it, whereas a submarine has sufficient energy to depart port and are available again to port below its personal energy.

Tourists typically pay to be taken to the wreckage of the liner - 12,500ft below water.

OceanGate Expeditions is an organization that deploys submersibles for deep sea expeditions - together with to the wreck of the Titanic. The firm has not commented on the stories.

The Titanic sank into the Atlantic on 15 April 1912 throughout its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York after hitting an iceberg, with some 1,500 folks dying within the catastrophe.

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The wreck - found 37 years in the past - is within the Atlantic about 400 nautical miles from Newfoundland in Canada.

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