Titanic tourist submersible goes missing with search underway
泰坦尼克号旅游潜水器失踪,搜寻工作正在进行中
A massive search and rescue operation is under way in themid Atlantic after a tourist submarine went missing during a dive to Titanic'swreck on Sunday.
周日,一艘旅游潜艇在潜入泰坦尼克号残骸时失踪,大西洋中部正在进行大规模搜救行动。
Contact with the small sub was lost about an hour and 45minutes into its dive, the US Coast Guard said.
美国海岸警卫队表示,这艘小型潜艇在下潜约1 小时 45 分钟后失去了联系。
Tour firm OceanGate said all options were being explored torescue the five people onboard.
旅游公司OceanGate 表示,正在探索所有方案来营救船上的五人。
Tickets cost $250,000 for an eight-day trip including dives to thewreck at a depth of 3,800m.
为期八天的旅程票价为25万 美元,其中包括潜入3,800米深度的沉船遗址。
Government agencies, the US and Canadian navies andcommercial deep-sea firms are helping the rescue operation, officials said.
官方机构表示,政府机构、美国和加拿大海军以及商业深海公司正在帮助救援行动。
Titanic's wreck lies some 435 miles (700km) south of StJohn's, Newfoundland, though the rescue mission is being run from Boston,Massachusetts.
泰坦尼克号的残骸位于纽芬兰圣约翰以南约435 英里(700 公里)处,救援任务是在马萨诸塞州波士顿进行的。
The missing craft is believed to be OceanGate's Titansubmersible, a truck-sized sub that holds five people and usually dives with afour-day emergency supply of oxygen.
据信失踪的飞船是OceanGate 的泰坦潜水器,这是一种卡车大小的潜水器,可容纳5 人,通常在潜水时会携带能供应四天的紧急氧气供应。
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