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| 0:00.0 | We have clients that are Titanic enthusiasts, which we refer to as Titaniacs. |
| 0:06.0 | We have people who have mortgaged their home to come and do the trip. |
| 0:10.0 | And we have people who don't think twice about a trip of this cost. |
| 0:14.0 | For the record, the trip cost $250,000. |
| 0:18.0 | That was stocked and rushed, the founder of Ocean Gate Expeditions, |
| 0:22.0 | and one of five men who died when a submersible bound for the wreckage of the Titanic imploded. |
| 0:27.0 | Today, unexplained, a deep sea explorer and a friend of one of the passengers tells us that he saw this coming. |
| 0:34.0 | The old line that says a man needs to know his limitations, and you just can't fix stupid. |
| 0:40.0 | In stupid games, when you stupid prizes, it was unnecessary. Everyone in the industry knew that this vessel had no business being out there. |
| 0:52.0 | Had no business being on the Titanic. None. |
| 0:59.0 | It's today explained, I'm Newell King. Yesterday morning, I talked to Joanna Suggden. |
| 1:11.0 | She's an editor and a reporter at the Wall Street Journal, and she had been covering the submersible since it went missing. |
| 1:23.0 | So the submersible was meant to go on a 8 to 10 hour dive, taking two hours to reach the site, |
| 1:33.0 | because it's 13,000 feet underwater, then spend six to eight hours, sort of viewing the wreckage, |
| 1:44.0 | and re-assending for another two hours. But it's at about 8 a.m. and an hour and 45 minutes into the voyage. |
| 1:51.0 | It lost communication with a mother ship on the surface, which it's meant to communicate every 15 minutes. |
| 1:58.0 | People who've been on it say every 15 minutes, you get a text message telling you, you know, you're location, |
| 2:04.0 | and where you are in a certain grid pattern that they've divided the ocean that they're exploring into. |
| 2:10.0 | My understanding is that an hour and 45 minutes into those communications stopped being responded to. |
| 2:17.0 | GPS doesn't work underwater, so, and at those depths, I've had tracking devices, sometimes do fail. |
| 2:26.0 | And when it didn't arrive back at 3 p.m. as expected, they alerted the Coast Guard, the Ocean Gate crew, |
| 2:35.0 | waiting on the ship above, and at about 5 p.m. the search was begun. |
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