Ottawa: A search-and-rescue operation is under way off the eastern coast of Canada and the United States, the US Coast Guard has said, after a submersible vessel used to visit the wreckage of the Titanic was reported missing.
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) first reported on Monday morning that the operation was launched off the coast of Canada’s Newfoundland.
Lieutenant Jordan Hart of the US Coast Guard in Boston later told CBS News that personnel were “currently undergoing a search-and-rescue operation”.
OceanGate Expeditions, a company based in the US state of Washington that deploys manned submersibles for deep-sea expeditions, told media outlets in a statement that its vessel was the subject of the rescue operation.
“Our entire focus is on the crewmembers in the submersible and their families,” the company said. –Agencies
