France sends a ship and its robot to find the missing submarine near the wreck of the “Titanic”

Special operation forAtalanta. I’French Research Institute for the Exploitation of the Sea (Ifremer) diverted its ship, equipped with an underwater robot for great depths, towards the North Atlantic site where a submarine visiting the wreck of the Titanic disappeared, announced Tuesday June 20 the secretary of ‘State in Charge of the Sea.Atalantashould arrive in the area on Wednesday around 8 p.m., said Hervé Berville.

French operators will then be able to dive the Victor 6000 robot towards the wreckage, which is nearly 4,000 meters deep, in the hope of finding the missing persons. qualified as“flagship of the submarine intervention” by Ifremer, Victor 6000 is a remotely operated robot from theAtalanta, with the help of an umbilical cord reaching eight kilometers. The robot can work in deep seas up to 6,000 meters deep.

The five missing persons

The American exploration submarine Titan has been missing since Sunday while diving in the North Atlantic for a visit to the wreck of the titanic. It has five crew members and has a theoretical autonomy of 96 hours in diving. The ddirector of the underwater research program on the wreck of the titanic, Paul-Henri Nargeolet, was notably on board. The 77-year-old Frenchman was the first, in 1993, to bring 800 objects from the wreckage to the surface.