Titanic tourist submersible goes missing
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 June 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:07.4 | I'm Charlotte Gallagher and in the early hours of Tuesday, |
| 0:10.6 | the 20th of June, these are our main stories. |
| 0:14.1 | A major international search operation is launched after a submersible with five people on board |
| 0:20.0 | goes missing on its way to explore the wreck of the Titanic. |
| 0:24.2 | The United Nations appeals for international help as Sudan remains in the grip |
| 0:29.3 | of a bloody conflict and could a nap a day help keep brain shrinkage at bay. |
| 0:38.9 | Also in this podcast, the terrifying tale of the Pakistani man who was captured by militants |
| 0:45.4 | and kept for nearly five years. |
| 0:47.9 | And can I accept my body for what it is? |
| 0:51.4 | After all, we all came into the world naked, didn't we? |
| 0:54.8 | The campaign to expand nude sunbathing on a UK island. |
| 1:03.4 | But first, it could be an adventure of a lifetime, |
| 1:06.6 | the chance to go deep into the Atlantic Ocean to view the world's most famous shipwreck, the Titanic. |
| 1:13.7 | But a submersible with five people on board has gone missing. |
| 1:18.1 | Rear Admiral John Margo of the US Coast Guard is leading the search and rescue mission. |
| 1:23.6 | The location of the search is approximately 900 miles east of Cape Cod in a water depth of roughly 13,000 feet. |
| 1:33.6 | It is a remote area and it is a challenge to conduct a search in that remote area. |
| 1:42.0 | But we are deploying all available assets to make sure that we can locate the craft and rescue the people on board. |
| 1:54.0 | David Pogue is a CBS news correspondent who traveled on the same submersible last year. |
| 2:00.8 | It's a tube, five inch thick carbon fiber about the size of a minivan with these titanium half dome end caps on each end. |
| 2:10.4 | There's no seating inside. |
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