France’s oceanographic institute is sending its vessel Atalante, equipped with a deep-sea underwater robot, to the north Atlantic to help find the submersible that went missing near the wreck of the Titanic with five people on board, the maritime ministry said Tuesday.
The Atalante, currently on a mission for the French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea (IFREMER), should arrive in the area on Wednesday around 1800 GMT, with experts urgently dispatched from the French port of Toulon to operate the robot for its dive, the ministry added.
