traveling 400 miles to the site of the title 42 for a ten-hour journey two miles below the ocean surface to explore the breckage. there were five people onboard. less than two hours after their descent they stopped communicating with the parent ship. the u.s. navy detected a sound that could have been an implosion in area and reportedly forwarded that information to the incident commander. that was not release olympicly. rescuers needed to find it quickly because it had 96 of ox. over the next hour, step by step through the five-day search for missing submersible, everything we know about what happened to the titani and its passengers the risks of going so far down into the ocean and the warnings that had been raised about the titan submersible. just into cnn, a deep sea search and rescue mission with life or death consequences. there was a rush to find a submersible that ferries people to the wreckage the titanic. the united states and canadian coast guards have la
until 1985. i am an undersea explorer and the titanic is one of those mount everests that had not been scaled. oceanographer and u.s. commander robert ballard had been trying to pull together funding to use an underwater rover to find the titanic. the navy was interested, but under one condition. balla ballard had to engage in a top-secret mission. they wanted him to find two submarines, the uss scorpion and the uss thresher. april 1963, the thresher made her last dive. both sank in the 1960s with a nuclear relakters on board. in order to avoid russian edetectives he suggested they use a search for the titanic as a cover and a deal was made. they basically told him, after you are found these subs, after you do what you need to do for us, go see if you can find the titanic. ballard had only 12 days to do it.