Titanic sub search: Rescuers race to find submersible as hours tick down
By DW
23 June 2023 |
7:17 am
With time running out, rescuers are making a last-ditch effort to locate a submersible that went missing on its way to the Titanic wreckage site. The rescuers fear oxygen on board the tiny vessel is close to exhausted.
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