Titanic submarine update: Ship videographer films final moments of Titan

Abbi Jackson, 22, was working as a videographer on the mothership Polar Prince on Sunday morning when five prosperous men sank 13,000 feet and still haven’t returned, The Sun reported.

The divers travelling with OceanGate went under off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada, with 96 hours of oxygen, meaning they are expected to run out Thursday morning.

The missing submarine descended in the early hours of the morning and lost contact with the mother ship just before 10am local time.

Waiting from the safety of the ship was a videographer (@abbijaxxxon) who was tasked with documenting the state-of-the-art exploratory technology.

While filming, the young Canadian whipped out her phone and panned over to capture the moment the Titan prepared to descend.

She flashed a smile while showing off the six-metre OceanGate sub in the background that has travelled to unprecedented depths.

She wrote: “Watching a submarine go down to the Titanic.”

A Canadian aircraft detected sounds in the area where the divers disappeared, though the US Coast Guard did not elaborate on what rescuers believe the noises could be.

Underwater drones have now been redeployed in a bid to locate where the thuds came from, but have so far “yielded negative results.”

Three of the other passengers have been identified as British Billionaire Hamish Harding, British-based Pakistani tycoon Shahzada Dawood, and his 19-year-old son Suleman Dawood.

French diving expert Paul-Henry Nargeolet is believed to also be on the sub.

Nargeolet was captured by Jackson in a video that was posted earlier this month.

She shared a TikTok of him floating on a lifeboat in the ocean and deemed him a “legend” in the caption.

“This man has seen the Titanic 37 times,” she wrote while having a laugh in the video.

‘Noises heard’

Responders continue to hear banging noises but have announced no progress with recovery efforts.

A US navy CURV21 was among robot subs joining the last-ditch bid to find lost craft Titan in the Atlantic and winch it to the surface.

A fleet of rescue ships is racing against time to locate the sub.

Five specialist vessels backed by deep-sea robots and search-and-rescue aircraft were already combing a vast 24 square kilometre zone up to a depth of 4km.

The late arrivals — carrying the world’s most advanced undersea search technology — provide the best hope of an incredible last-gasp rescue.

Experts hope they can end the “needle in a haystack” hunt near the liner’s wreck, 3.8km under the North Atlantic.

Five people were on board the minisub Titan, which went missing on Sunday during a dive to view the Titanic.

US Coast Guard captain Jamie Frederick yesterday confirmed deep-sea noises had been heard which were being analysed by sonar experts to establish if they came from the craft.

He said: “There is an enormous complexity associated with this case, due to the location being so far offshore and the co-ordination between multiple agencies and nations.

“There were multiple reports of noises and every one of them is being analysed.

“The noises have been described as banging noises.”

However, so far, Captain Frederick said the searches have yielded negative results.

He said: “The noises were heard yesterday and this morning, experts are analysing the data but at the moment it is inconclusive.

“We need to have hope … what I can tell you is we are searching in the right area.

“We have to remain optimistic and hopeful when we are in a search-and-rescue case.”

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