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Titanic Explorer Says Two Likely Disaster Causes Are Survivable. One Is Not

WATCH: The US Coast Guard and teams from Canada and France continue searching for the submersible vessel that was headed to the wreck of the Titanic. Source: Bloomberg
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The submersible vessel that vanished during a dive to the Titanic shipwreck may have experienced one of the so-called trinity of disasters that all such expeditions seek to avoid: a hull breach, a fire or an entanglement.

The first of those outcomes isn’t survivable, said Joe MacInnis, the renowned Canadian explorer and physician who has been to the Titanic site four times and is a close friend of one of the passengers aboard the missing Titan.