Designed by Navy's Warship Design Bureau, the Imphal is 3rd ship in Navy's Project 15B or Visakhapatnam class, sanctioned in 2011 at a cost of Rs 29,700 cr. It was delivered in October.
INS Vagir has sailed continuously since its deployment in June except for one port stop in Sri Lanka, resurfacing every 3-4 days to recharge its batteries for a few hours.
The vessel carried Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his 19-year-old son Suleman, British billionaire Hamish Harding, French explorer Paul Henry Nargeolet, and OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush.
Other experts in industry and whistle-blowing employee raised alarms in 2018, criticizing OceanGate for opting against seeking certification and operating as experimental vessel.
A robotic diving vehicle deployed from Canadian ship discovered debris field from submersible Titan on Thursday morning on seabed some 1,600 feet from bow of Titanic.
The submersible 'Titan' went missing Sunday during a dive to the wreckage of the Titanic. Multiple rescue teams are racing against time to save the 5 people onboard.
Wendy Rush is great-great-granddaughter of retailing magnate Isidor Straus and his wife, Ida, two of wealthiest people on board Titanic’s maiden voyage when it sank, said report.
Industry experts said that OceanGate chose not to pursue the industry's recognized certification process for the submersible's design, fabrication and testing.
Rolling Stone said sounds were detected by sonar buoys deployed in area ‘close to distress position’ and that additional sonar picked up more banging 4 hours later.
Owned by OceanGate Expeditions, the submersible, with five people on board, went missing an hour and 45 minutes into its dive, about 700 kilometres off the Newfoundland coast.
The Romans’ version of stoicism is rapidly picking popularity on Instagram — Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, and Seneca are some names that get thrown at you when you fire up your screen.
Germany’s erstwhile Christian Democratic Union govt, led by Angela Merkel, prevented sale of small arms to police forces in states they perceived had ‘bad human rights record’.
A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.
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