TItan Sub Disaster | 12,000 Leagues Under the Sea

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American Scandal uses dramatizations that are based on true events. Some elements, including dialogue, might be invented, but everything is based on historical research. [suspenseful music] It's late on June twentieth, two thousand twenty-three, onboard a Royal Canadian Air Force patrol plane high above the North Atlantic Ocean. An airman hunches over a monitor, listening intently to an acoustic feed through his headphones. Typically, he's tasked with tracking the movements of potentially hostile submarines. But today he has a different mission. A small civilian submersible with five people on board has gone missing on a dive to the wreck of the Titanic. Search teams from across the world have scrambled to help find it. The aircraft cabin is dim except for the blinking status lights and the soft glow of computer monitors. To search the murky waters of the Atlantic, the plane has deployed several sonobuoys. These sensors sink to a certain depth, capture sounds, then transmit them back to the aircraft circling above. But it will take a skilled ear to pick out the sound of a small submersible against the ocean's background noise. [sonobuoy buzzing] The Canadian airman adjusts a dial. There's nothing on buoy two apart from the usual sounds of the deep sea. Buoy five is all