Search intensifies for Titanic tourist sub
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🗓️ 21 June 2023
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The search intensifies for the Titanic tourist submersible. CBS News Correspondent David Pogue recounts his experience visiting the sub last year.
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning, I'm Taylor Wilson and this is five things you need to know Wednesday, the 21st of June, 2023. |
| 0:20.0 | Today, the latest as a search continues for the missing submersible in the North Atlantic. |
| 0:26.0 | Plus, we have a date for former President Donald Trump's documents trial and Hunter Biden makes a plea agreement. |
| 0:39.0 | A Canadian aircraft heard underwater noises just after midnight last night and a part of the North Atlantic being searched for a submersible that vanished on Sunday in a dive to the Titanic wreckage site. |
| 0:52.0 | US and Canadian ships and aircraft intensified their searches yesterday and they've already searched more than 10,000 square miles according to the Coast Guard. |
| 1:01.0 | As of this morning, the sub has an estimated 24 hours of oxygen remaining if it's still intact. |
| 1:08.0 | Five people are on board, including the mission company Oceangate CEO Stockton Rush. |
| 1:15.0 | Few people have been inside the submersible designed to reach the wreckage of the Titanic, which sits nearly two and a half miles underneath the ocean. |
| 1:23.0 | But one person who has is CBS Sunday Morning Correspondent and fellow podcaster David Pogue. |
| 1:30.0 | He did a story on the sub for CBS last year. |
| 1:33.0 | I spoke with David to learn more about his experience. |
| 1:36.0 | David, thanks for wrapping on five things. |
| 1:38.0 | Sure. |
| 1:39.0 | You visited this Titanic Taurus sub. |
| 1:43.0 | I'm wondering if you can just tell us a little bit about what your experience was like. |
| 1:47.0 | Not just inside the submersible, but this entire experience getting out there to the North Atlantic. |
| 1:52.0 | I was anticipating a once in a lifetime experience and I got it. |
| 1:57.0 | Oceangate, the company invited us from CBS Sunday Morning Camera Man, that producer and me to come aboard and in theory to document one of their dives to the Titanic for which they were charging a quarter of a million dollars per person. |
| 2:12.0 | We didn't pay that. |
| 2:14.0 | We were there to do a story. |
| 2:16.0 | I was very, very, very excited and then I saw the actual submersible. |
| 2:21.0 | It's a one of a kind as Stockton Rush, the CEO and the inventor of the sub. |
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