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Bystanders nervously count down the hours as rescuers continue to search for the submarine that disappeared earlier this week, the Titanic.
There are five passengers on board the ‘Titan’, including one from Pakistan richest men, Shahzada Dawood, along with his son Suleman, billionaire Hamish Harding, Stockton Rush and Paul-Henry Nargeolet.
With their oxygen supplies running out by noon, experts fear the ship may become stuck somewhere 12,000 feet below the North Atlantic surface.
Here lies the Titanic, at a depth more than twice the size of the Grand Canyon (6,000 feet) and five times the height of the world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa (2,217 feet).
But you may be surprised to know that the Titanic is by no means the deepest wreck in the world – with the record held by a liner much further into the deep blue.
MailOnline has revealed a shocking image that sheds light on just how vast the ocean really is.
The deepest shipwreck in the world, USS Samuel B. Roberts, is nearly twice as deep as the Titanic. USS Samuel B. Roberts is located at 22,523 ft (6,865 m) in the Philippine Sea. This wreck is almost four times as deep as the colossal Grand Canyon, USA
It turns out that the deepest known shipwreck was found nearly a year ago today, at 22,523 ft (6,865 m) in the Philippine Sea.
USS Samuel B. Roberts – also known as ‘Sammy B’ – was identified after decades of mystery by American explorer Victor Vescovo.
This ship took part in the final stages of the Battle of Leyte Gulf in 1944 in which the Japanese Navy and US forces fought over Leyte in the Philippines.
It is known that the USS Samuel B. Roberts was seriously hit by a battleship, killing 89 when it sank.
Now the remains lie nearly four times as deep as the Grand Canyon – much deeper than the Titanic.
Last year’s discovery also beat the USS Johnston, which was crowned the deepest shipwreck in the world just a year earlier.
This liner was also discovered in the Philippine Sea at a depth of 21,222 ft (6,468 m) and served as a WII destroyer during one of the largest naval battles in history.
In 2019, experts from Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s research vessel released video of the battered and twisted hull lying eerily on the ocean floor.
USS Samuel B. Roberts found off the Philippines in the Western Pacific. The U.S. Navy destroyer escort that engaged a superior Japanese fleet in the largest naval battle of World War II in the Philippines has become the deepest wreck discovered, according to explorers
Pictured: USS Samuel B. Roberts in action before sinking in the Philippine Sea
The remains of USS Samuel B. Roberts lie nearly four times as deep as the Grand Canyon – much deeper than the Titanic
Pictured: USS Johnston, now one of the deepest shipwrecks in the world
“There is no intact hull structure that we can find. This wreck has been completely decimated, it’s just rubble,” the crew said upon finding the remains.
“This wreck is either the Johnston or the Hoel… This wreck is in the southern part of where the battle took place and this is one of the reasons we think this is the Johnston, because she sank later, after Hoel did . ‘
Before Johnston, the SS Rio Grande held the world record for the deepest known shipwreck for nearly 30 years.
This ship was found nearly 1,000 kilometers off the coast of Brazil in 1996, but objects from the wreck are still washing up to this day, according to the New scientist.
In 1944, the Rio Grande served as a World War II German ship, but was destroyed by American fighters in 1944, before sinking to about 18,904 feet (5,762 m).
USS Johnston was crowned the deepest shipwreck in the world just a year before USS Samuel B. Roberts. This liner was also discovered in the Philippine Sea at a depth of 21,222 ft (6,468 m) and served as a WII destroyer during one of the largest naval battles in history
Experts from the research vessel Petrel released video of the battered and twisted metal lying on the ocean floor when the wreck was discovered in 2019
Pictured: SS Rio Grande at sea before plunging to a depth of 18,904 feet
Pictured: The Titanic was lined up against some of the largest buildings and landscapes in the world
Pictured: SS City of Cairo, which eventually sank 780 miles south of Saint Helena
Pictured: The Titanic that sank in the North Atlantic in 1912
This again defeated the SS city of Cairo, with its shipwreck at 16,896 ft (5,150 m), in the middle of the Atlantic.
The ship was in service just two years off Rio Grande before being torpedoed twice by the Nazis while carrying 136 passengers.
At that time it was also carrying about 100 tons of silver coins which were salvaged in 2015.
These belonged to the British government who commissioned Deep Ocean Search (DOS) to find them for the past ten years.
At the moment, these historical coins are estimated to be worth about one £34 million.
A DOS spokesman previously said: ‘The team quickly discovered that operating at this depth caused serious technical problems that were new to us and needed to be resolved quickly.
“The combination of pressure, temperature, repeated dives at this depth and other issues resulted in multiple system failures unlike any we had experienced working at depths of 3,000 to 4,000 metres.