Titanic tourist submarine missing LIVE: British billionaire among five onboard

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An expert on the history of the Titanic has said he is ‘very worried about the souls’ on board the missing submersible.

Tim Maltin, an author, historian and TV presenter said the tourists were in a difficult situation.

Mr Maltin said on BBC Breakfast: ‘If it’s near the Titanic it would be easier to find, but the problem is of course you can’t do a ship-to-ship transfer even, the pressure is absolutely intense.

‘It’s nearly two miles miles down, it’s pitch black. So I also am very, very worried about the souls who are on board.’

He added: ‘I think they’re quite brave people who have been down there, but equally they know the risks but no one expects it to go wrong on your dive.’

A writer who took the Titanic submersible trip last year said he feels ‘optimistic’ for the missing OceanGate craft.

Mike Reiss told BBC Breakfast communication was also lost during his dive down to the Titanic.

Mr Reiss said: ‘I’m optimistic just because I know the logistics of it. And I know really again, how vast the ocean is, and how very tiny the craft is.

He added: ‘So the idea is, if it’s down at the bottom, I don’t know how anyone’s going to be able to access it, much less bring it back up. There is a hope that it’s at, or near, the surface.

‘I did three separate dives. I did one dive to the Titanic and two more off the coast of New York. Every time they lost communication and again, this is not a shoddy ship or anything.’

Here is the Daily Mail’s front page today, which leads on the desperate search for British billionaire adventurer Hamish Harding on the submarine:

One of Pakistan’s richest men and his son are trapped on Titanic sub

Let’s start with a look at MailOnline’s top story today, which is the news that one of Pakistan’s richest men and his teenage son are also among the five people missing in the submarine that set off to see the wreck of the Titanic.

Shahzada Dawood, 48, a UK-based board member of the Prince’s Trust charity, and his son Sulaiman Dawood, 19, were on board the small underwater craft taking paying tourists to view the famous wreck.

Read the full story from MailOnline’s Martin Robinson and Rachael Bunyan here:

Good morning and welcome to MailOnline’s live coverage as rescue teams continue the search for a submersible tourist vessel which went missing during a voyage to the Titanic shipwreck with a British billionaire among the five people aboard.

Hamish Harding is one of the mission specialists on the five-person OceanGate Expeditions vessel reported overdue on Sunday evening about 435 miles south of St John’s, Newfoundland.

A major search and rescue operation, which is being led by the US Coast Guard and involving military aircraft 900 miles east of Cape Cod, was continuing this morning.

Stay with MailOnline throughout today as the Canadian research vessel Polar Prince and 106 Rescue wing continue to conduct surface searches along with two C-130 flights.

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