OceanGate Expeditions announced on Tuesday its second annual expedition to the wreck, which will see ‘mission specialists,’ along with researchers, survey the massive ship while inside the company’s submersible Titan.
The Titanic Expedition is conducted as a series of eight-day missions starting in May and ending in June, and each seat costs $250,000.
The citizen explorers, or mission specialists, archaeologists will begin their adventure by sailing on the expedition vessel from St John’s in Newfoundland, Canada, to the site of the Titanic wreckage, located 370 miles away.
The Titan submersible is outfitted with the latest camera technologies to capture ultra-high-resolution imagery that will help determine the wreck’s rate of decay and assess the marine life that dwell on the wreck.
P.H. Nargeolet, veteran Nautile submersible pilot and mission specialist of the 2021 expedition, said in a statement: ‘You have a lot of room inside the Titan submersible.
Pictured is the inside of Titan where crew members sit as they venture down to the depths of the North Atlantic Ocean.
OceanGate Expeditions will then use its five-manned carbon fiber and titanium Cyclops-class submersible to transport archaeologists and the mission specialists to the wreck the craft takes up to three mission specialists on each dive that lasts from eight to 10 hours.
Mission specialists at left and right capture the iconic image of the Titanic’s bow.
Last year’s OceanGate expedition recorded fragments of floor tile and other debris from the luxury liner, along with studied marine life found on this artificial reef and drafted a GIS map of the artifacts also found on the Titanic.
This telemotor was part of the Titanic’s steering system.
The Giant RMS Titanic, which was called the unsinkable ship, was lost at 2:30am on April 14, 1912, four days into its voyage from Southampton to New York.
She collided with an iceberg and in the end 1,517 of the 2,224 passengers and crew aboard were left dead.
The ship was discovered on September 1, 1985 resting 12,500ft below the surface of the North Atlantic Ocean lying in two main pieces about 600metres apart (Bow&Stern).
For 73 years, she lay lost and alone in the dark freezing water.
