▲ Oceangate Expedition, an American deep-sea exploration company, has released a high-definition video of the luxury passenger ship 'Titanic', which sank 110 years ago.


A tourist product has appeared where you can see the Titanic, which sank 110 years ago, in a submersible.



The New York Times (NYT), an American daily, reported on the 4th local time that the Titanic tour program operated by the American undersea exploration company 'Ocean Gate Expedition' was introduced and attention was paid to whether the era of undersea tourism would open.



Oceangate Expeditions is a private exploration company that charges tourists to show shipwrecks or subsea canyons by submersibles.



The company's flagship program, 'Titanic Exploration', is about seeing the hull of the Titanic, an ill-fated passenger ship that sank in the North Atlantic in 1912 in a submersible for $250,000 per person.



Total travel time is about 8 hours.



The program has been operating last year and this year, and we plan to recruit participants next year as well.



Stockton Rush, chairman of Oceangate Expeditions, likened its undersea exploration program to private space tourism, saying that their undersea exploration program will be the first step in expanding undersea tourism.



"Public institutions do not provide the money needed to return to the Titanic," Rush said.



Experts say that there is no reason to object, although there is no scientific benefit.



Don Lynch, a historian with the Titanic Historical Society (THS), said, "The more pictures you take of the Titanic, the more you'll discover things you haven't seen before." It's just amazing to see them doing it," he said.



Paul F. Johnston, who works as maritime history curator at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, said, "I'm not against commercial exploitation because it doesn't touch or damage ships." "There's not much we know about the Titanic."




On the other hand, Oceangate Expedition released a high-definition video of the Titanic on its official YouTube account on the 31st of last month.



The video contains details of the Titanic that have not been released to date, such as a broken boiler, along with a 15-ton anchor erected at the bow and port.



Chairman Rush said, "This is the world's first video recording of a deep-sea wreck in 8K quality."



The Titanic, also known as the 'non-sinkable ship', collided with an iceberg and sank while sailing from Southampt, England, to New York in 1912, killing about 1,500 people.



The location of the wrecked Titanic was first identified in 1985 near the North Atlantic Ocean, 680 kilometers from Newfoundland, Canada, and it was revealed 73 years after it sank.



(Photo and video = Oceangate Expedition YouTube)