![]() Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his son, Suleman, were also on board, their family said in a statement. The private company that operates the submersible vessel, OceanGate Expeditions, said in a statement on Monday that it was "mobilizing all options" to rescue those on board.īritish billionaire Hamish Harding is among the passengers, according to a social media post from a relative. Mauger said officials have also been reaching out to commercial vessels for help. "Going into this evening we will continue to fly aircraft and move additional vessels." "We are deploying all available assets to make sure that we can locate the craft and rescue the people on board," he said. ![]() "It is a remote area and it is a challenge to conduct a search in that remote area," Mauger said. Coast Guard Rear Admiral John Mauger told reporters on Monday. and Canadian ships and planes have swarmed the area about 900 miles (1,450 km) east of Cape Cod, some dropping sonar buoys that can monitor to a depth of 13,000 feet (3,962 meters), U.S. Coast Guard said there was one pilot and four passengers on board and that the vessel had the capacity to be submerged for 96 hours, but it was unclear whether it was still underwater or had surfaced and was unable to communicate. and Canadian ships and planes searched on Monday for a submersible vessel that went missing more than a day earlier off the coast of southeastern Canada while taking tourists to explore the wreckage of the Titanic, officials said.
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