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New Titanic expedition is set for summer 2022 will take citizen explorers to visit the famous ship - Daily Mail
Nov 23, 2021 2 mins, 18 secs

OceanGate Expeditions announced on Tuesday its second annual expedition to the wreck, which will see ‘mission specialists,’ along with researchers, survey the massive ship while inside the company’s submersible Titan.

The Titanic Expedition is conducted as a series of eight-day missions starting in May and ending in June, and each seat costs $250,000 – a $125,000 increase from the previous year.

Aaron Newman, OceanGate Expeditions Mission Specialist during the 2021 trip, said in a statement: ‘It was something out of Discovery Channel or National Geographic.

Less than around 200 people have ever been down to the Titanic and seen the wreck in 110 years.

OceanGate Expeditions announced on Tuesday its second annual expedition to the wreck, which will see ‘Mission specialists,’ along with researchers, survey the massive ship while inside the company’s submersible Titan.

The citizen explorers, or mission specialists, will begin their adventure by sailing on the expedition vessel from St John's in Newfoundland, Canada, to the site of the Titanic wreckage, located 370 miles away.

OceanGate Expeditions will then use its five-manned carbon fiber and titanium Cyclops-class submersible to transport archaeologists and the mission specialists to the wreck – the craft takes up to three mission specialists on each dive that lasts from eight to 10 hours.

The Titan submersible is outfitted with the latest camera technologies to capture ultra-high-resolution imagery that will help determine the wreck’s rate of decay and assess the marine life that dwell on the wreck.

Nargeolet, veteran Nautile submersible pilot and mission specialist of the 2021 expedition, said in a statement: ‘You have a lot of room inside the Titan submersible.

Mission specialists from the 2021 expedition sand a picture intron of the Titan submersible off to the right side.

From left are mission specialist David Raud, OceanGate’s Stockton Rush and mission specialists Doug Jackson, Bridget Buxton and Aaron Newman.

The Titan submersible is outfitted with the latest camera technologies to capture ultra-high-resolution imagery that will help determine the wreck’s rate of decay and assess the marine life that dwell on the wreck.

The Titanic, which was called the ‘unsinkable ship,’ went down on April 14, 1912, four days into her maiden voyage from Southampton, England to New York.

The giant ship collided with an iceberg and in the end, 1,517 of the 2,224 passengers and crew aboard died.  .

The citizen explorers, or mission specialists, will begin their adventure by sailing on the expedition vessel from St John's in Newfoundland, Canada, to the site of the Titanic wreckage, located 370 miles away .

It isn’t going faster, but you can see more of the inside of the ship as the wreck decays

The landing of craft on the wreck has caused substantial deterioration to the promenade deck, with some of the more significant damage caused by Cameron's expedition, during which a submersible collided with the ship's hull

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