If you have an adventurous spirit and $130,000, you can apply to join the next deep sea dive to the wreck of the Titanic.
There are a few spots left for the mission being led by OceanGate, a private American company.
CEO Stockton Rush says a total of 54 paying “mission specialists” will join the six-week expedition to assist with research.
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They will each get one week onboard the research vessel and at least one dive on Titanic, about 4,000 metres down.
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OceanGate has developed a five-person sub that’s starting open water tests this week off Seattle.
It’s called the Cyclops 2 and is expected to arrive in Newfoundland in May before the expedition leaves from St. John’s in late June.
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More than 1,500 people died when Titanic hit an iceberg and sank on April 15th, 1912 about 600 kilometres off Newfoundland.
The expedition will use cutting-edge high resolution cameras to build a 3-D virtual model that will help track how fast the wreck is rusting away.
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