Submarine exploring Titanic wreck missing, search underway

 The port bow railing of the Titanic lies in 12,600 feet of water about 400 miles east of Nova Scotia as photographed earlier this month as part of a joint scientific and recovery expedition sponsored by the Discovery Channel and RMS Titantic. Scientists plan to illuminate and then raise the hull section of this legendary ocean liner later this month. (Reuters)

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Submarine exploring Titanic wreck missing, search underway

A submarine on a tourism expedition to explore the wreckage of the Titanic has gone missing off the coast of southeastern Canada, according to the private company that operates the vessel.

OceanGate Expeditions said in a brief statement on Monday that it was “mobilizing all options” to rescue those on board the vessel. It was not immediately clear how many people were missing.

The US Coast Guard did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Media reports said the Coast Guard has launched search-and-rescue operations.

“We are deeply thankful for the extensive assistance we have received from several government agencies and deep sea companies in our efforts to reestablish contact with the submersible,” OceanGate said in a statement.

The company is currently operating its fifth Titanic “mission” of 2023, according to its website, which was scheduled to start last week and finish on Thursday.

The expedition, which costs $250,000 per person, starts in St. John’s, Newfoundland, before heading out approximately 400 miles into the Atlantic to the wreckage site, according to OceanGate’s website.

In order to visit the wreck, passengers climb inside Titan, a five-person submersible, which takes about two hours to descend to the Titanic.

The British passenger ship famously sunk in 1912 on its maiden voyage after striking an iceberg, killing more than 1,500 people. The story has been immortalized in non-fiction and fiction books as well as the 1997 blockbuster movie “Titanic”.

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Mamata to Bose: Foundation Day event will rekindle bitter memories

 Criticising Raj Bhavan’s decision to hold a programme to mark West Bengal’s Foundation Day “unilaterally”, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee wrote to Governor C V Ananda Bose on Monday and said the state was created through a “painful” process that uprooted millions of families. She also requested the Governor to cancel the programme, as it would “rekindle bitter memories of crores of people” in the state.

The Raj Bhavan has planned to hold a programme on June 20 to commemorate West Bengal’s foundation.

In her letter, Banerjee wrote that West Bengal was carved out of the undivided State of Bengal in 1947 “through a painful and traumatic process”.

“The process involved uprooting millions of people across the border and death and replacement of innumerable families. The economy of Bengal was destroyed and the truncated State of West Bengal suffered a sudden disruption of communication and infrastructure, too,” the letter stated.

The CM wrote that the decision to carve out West Bengal was seen as a “historical necessity” at that point of time. “The state was not founded on any particular day, least of all on June 20. Contrarily, the state was formed through the infamous Radcliffe Award, which was given legitimacy by the departing colonial/imperial government,” she wrote.

“Since Independence, we in West Bengal have never commemorated or celebrated any day as the Foundation Day of West Bengal. Rather, we have seen the Partition as a result of unleashing of communal forces that could not be resisted at that point of time,” Banerjee stated.

The CM also described the step as “unprecedented” and one which was taken “unilaterally without following any procedure of obtaining necessary consent of the state Cabinet and the state legislature.”

“This act on your part would hurt the sentiments or poodle and insult and defame the millions of people in West Bengal today… We strongly protest against this unconstitutional and unilateral decision of the Government of India to commemorate the so-called Foundation Day of West Bengal on June 20.” She requested the Governor to not to hold any such programme as it will “rekindle the bitter memories of crores of people in West Bengal and re-incite undesirable forces.”

On June 20, 1947, two meetings of separate sets of legislators in the Bengal Assembly were held. One of those who wanted West Bengal as part of India, voted in favour of the resolution by a majority. The other was of legislators of areas which eventually became East Pakistan.

– With PTI inputs

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