The Titanic tourist who survived to tell the tale
As the search goes on for five missing Titanic tourists we heard how dangerous such an expedition is from a former traveller to the wreck.
The US Coastguard says there were "underwater noises" in the area where a tourist submersible with five people on board went missing near the Titanic wreck but so far with no concrete results.
Contact with the small submersible was lost about an hour and 45 minutes into its dive to the wreck site off the coast of Newfoundland, in Canada, on Sunday - and it has a limited supply of oxygen left.
Travelling to the ocean floor is a dangerous endeavour and not many people have sighted the Titanic wreck in person. One person who has is science journalist Michael Guillen who visited on a small submersible 23 years ago.
He had a harrowing experience when his vessel was briefly trapped near the propeller of the Titanic's wreckage, as he explained to Newsday's Majlinda Zeqiri:
"It was just about waiting to run out of oxygen. It's pitch black. And then there was a feeling of floating. We knew something had happened but didn't know what. It was a nail-biter all the way to the end."
(Pic: Captain Jamie Frederick of US Coast Guard updates media on the pier in Boston, US; Credit: EPA)
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