France sending ship to assist Titanic sub rescue operation

France will ship a ship outfitted with a deep-sea diving vessel to assist the search-and-rescue operation for a disappeared submersible that took rich vacationers to go to the location of the Titanic wreckage, the French authorities says.

The ship, known as the Atalante, is managed by the Ifremer analysis institute.

Ifremer stated it had been contacted on Monday by the US navy with a request for assist.

“It carries the Victor 6000 autonomous robotic, able to descending to a depth of 6000 metres, past the 3800 metres of the wreck’s place,” Ifremer stated, including the ship was anticipated to reach on the location by Wednesday night native time.

Extra crew members from one other ship are additionally being urgently dispatched to the search operation.

These aboard the submersible known as Titan, the spotlight of a vacationer expedition that prices $US250,000 ($A367,000) per individual, included British billionaire Hamish Harding and Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood along with his son Suleman.

A authorities supply confirmed to Reuters {that a} French citizen, the 77-year-old French explorer Paul-Henri Nargeolet, was amongst these on board the lacking vessel.

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