Near, far, or wherever you are — you can have this once-in-a-lifetime experience to see the Titanic up close and personal.
Starting May 2018, London-based tour operator Blue Marble Private who is working with OceanGate Expeditions, will run an eight-day journey that will take nine clients at a time to see the Titanic wreckage site.
The RMS Titanic that was once a symbol of grandeur and luxury, is now a rusting and slowly deteriorating wreckage submerged at 13,000 ft. below the North Atlantic Ocean when it met its unfortunate fate more than a century ago.
When it made its first voyage in 1912, only wealthy people could afford to be onboard Titanic. Apparently, one still need to pay a lot money to see even the decaying remains of Titanic under the sea. With $105,129 (PhP 5,273,796.29) per person, the price adjusted for inflation, is equivalent to $4,350 that a first-class passenger would have paid to sail on Titanic in 1912.
*us after knowing the price*
The expedition will begin via a helicopter or seaplane ride from St. John’s, Newfoundland to a yacht set somewhere above the wreck. According to The Telegraph: “Should weather conditions allow, that is when up to three passengers at a time will clamber aboard a specially designed titanium and carbon fibre submersible to see the decaying remains of the Titanic itself.”
Participants who will dive day and night and “…will be expected to contribute to the mission (if even in just a cursory way) by assisting with sub-sea communications and undertaking basic tasks,” The Telegraph added. There will also be lectures, discussions, mission updates, and dive briefs with deep ocean explorers and scientists.
This will be the first time the site will be open for exploration again since the last crewed mission in 2005, and a series of 12-day dives where groups of 20 tourists, paying $59,000 each for the centennial of Titanic’s sinking in 2012.
So if you have some extra cash saved up and your heart goes on for Titanic, then you shouldn’t let this opportunity slip by!
*Celine Dion’s “My Heart Will Go On” plays in the background*
