American real estate mogul Larry Connor says he wants to show the site of the famous liner can be explored safetly, nearly one year after the Titan disaster.
The wreck of one of the most storied US Navy submarines of World War II has been found in the South China Sea eight decades after its last patrol, the Navy's History and Heritage Command said.
From underwater drones to electronic warfare, the US is expanding its high-tech military cooperation with Australia and the UK to counter China's rapidly growing influence in the Indo-Pacific.
The mother of teenager Suleman Dawood, who died in the Titan submersible, said her son loved solving his Rubik's cube and even took it on board with him.
Authorities have begun the process of probing the cause of the underwater implosion and grappled with questions of who was responsible for determining how the tragedy unfolded.
Stockton Rush wore a hard-hat and stood next to one of his submersible crafts last year full of enthusiasm as he told a bunch of students about the thrills and perils of being a deep-sea explorer.
There's no other comparable ocean search, especially with so many countries and even commercial enterprises being involved, naval historian, Norman Polmar, said.
As officials work to determine the timeline and circumstances of the accident, remotely operated vehicles will be used to map out the Titan's debris field more than 3.2kms deep in the ocean.
US film director James Cameron, who helmed the hit 1997 film Titanic and has himself made 33 dives to the wreckage, has spoken after it was announced that a missing Titanic-bound submersible suffered a "catastrophic implosion," killing five people on board.
Only a handful of people have seen the Titanic's wreckage in person, because precious few have what it takes to visit: the financial resources, access to experts – and a willingness to accept the significant safety risk.
If five people onboard the missing submersible are still alive they may have little more than 24 hours of oxygen to breathe inside the small six-metre Titan.
Civilian submersible may have suffered a catastrophic leak, an electrical fire, a power blackout or even been swept up in a tremendously powerful underwater current.
A Russian vessel capable of carrying mini-submarines were spotted close to the Nord Stream pipelines days before an explosion crippled the major piece of infrastructure, a Danish newspaper reports.
The federal government will dramatically reduce their planned purchase of tanks and howitzers to free up money for other defence priorities, Nine Newspapers reports.