A submersible that is missing deep under the Atlantic with five people on board after diving for the wreck of the Titanic resembles a ‘kit car’ built from ‘parts you can get from Amazon’, a former Royal Navy admiral said today

A submersible that is missing deep under the Atlantic with five people on board after diving for the wreck of the Titanic resembles a ‘kit car’ built from ‘parts you can get from Amazon’, a former Royal Navy admiral said today. 

Chris Parry described the small craft, named Titan, as ‘very flimsy and fragile’ – as a journalist who once sat inside claimed it features lights from a camping shop, off the shelf CCTV cameras and salvaged metal pipes for ballast. 

The sub – which consists of a five-inch thick carbon fibre tube about the size of a minivan with a 22-inch Plexiglas window at one end – is said to be controlled using a modified controller. 

It does not have a GPS system and uses ‘s Starlink to communicate with a communications and tracking team on its mothership, MV Polar Prince, via short text messages. 

The sub is meant to communicate with the main ship – which in 2005 was listed on eBay with a reserve price of $1million – every 15 minutes to inform the team of its location. 

The last message was received while the submersible floated above the Titanic wreckage at about 10am EST on Sunday (3pm UK time). 

There are no seats and only one toilet – a small black box containing Ziploc bags – with a black curtain drawn across and slot gacor music played for privacy. 

However, the company’s website recommends ‘you restrict your diet before and during the dive to reduce the likelihood that you will need to use the facilities’.  

The walls of the sub are heated because conditions can become extremely cold.

It emerged today that Titan reportedly suffered electrical damage and also had to be rebuilt for not being able to withstand the deep ocean before it was eventually able to start carrying wealthy tourists to the site. 

The US Coast Guard in the North Atlantic Ocean where it vanished on Sunday.The remote area is where the Titanic struck an iceberg and sank in 1912, killing more than 1,500.