As somebody who has paid for a television licence for over 40 years, I am contemplating not renewing my TV licence this year.

A team of investigators has boarded the main support ship of the Titan submersible after it returned to the harbour following the deep-sea vessel’s fatal implosion.

This week, as I and half the world were fixated on the extensive and expensive search in the north Atlantic, another search was taking place in the waters south of Greece

Flags on board the Polar Prince were at half-mast as it arrived at the port in St John’s in Newfoundland on Saturday morning

It is unlikely there are many of us who would choose to take their pleasure by climbing into a cramped mini-submarine and diving into the inhospitable and unforgiving depths of the Atlantic Ocean.

The story of the loss of the Titan made the news of the sinking fishing trawler of Greece packed with almost 500 people disappear from news feeds

After the catastrophic implosion of the vessel, the other co-founder of OceanGate, Guillermo Sohnlein, defended the firm – describing regulations surrounding visits to the Titanic wreckage as 'tricky to navigate'

In a statement published online, Charles Haas, president of the Titanic International Society, an organisation set up in 1989 to preserve the history of the Titanic, questioned whether visits to the historic site 3,800m below the surface should continue.

Guillermo Sohnlein, co-founder of OceanGate Expeditions, said there are regulations in place surrounding submersibles but they are “sparse” and “antiquated”.

Families and friends of the victims have been speaking about their loved ones 

In a press conference in Boston on Thursday, Rear Admiral John Mauger told reporters he could not say what the prospects were of recovering the bodies of those killed on the Titan expedition.

“I knew that sub was sitting exactly underneath its last known depth and position. That’s exactly where they found it.”

We continue to map out the debris field, and as the admiral said, we will do the best we can to fully map out what’s down there'

Debris found in search area consistent with catastrophic loss of the pressure chamber, says US Coast Guard

Rescuers were racing against the clock because the oxygen supply could run out by approximately 6am Thursday (midday Irish time).

More than 80% of the bottom of the sea is unmapped and unexplored.

Experts have not yet identified the source of the noises, and officials have warned that they may not have originated from the missing vessel

Five people are on board the submersible, which went missing on Sunday off the coast of Canada during a voyage to the wreck of the Titanic, and there is thought to be less than 20 hours of oxygen left

Noises have been detected from the search area of the missing deep-sea vessel near the wreck site of the Titanic as those on board face a dwindling supply of oxygen

The rescue of Roger Mallinson and Roger Chapman in 1973 is currently the deepest sub rescue in history

In a press briefing this afternoon, Captain Jamie Frederick of the US coast guard gave details of the "complex" search and rescue operation now underway to locate the missing submarine. 

With temperatures on the ocean floor near-freezing and the vessel’s 96 hour oxygen supply running down, occupants are at increasing risk of hyperthermia or suffocation

Rescuers are in a race against time to find Mr Harding and four other passengers on board the 6.7 metres (22ft) long OceanGate Expeditions vessel

Rescue teams are searching for five people who went missing on a deep-sea vessel near the wreck site of the Titanic ocean liner.

Rescue teams are in a race against time to find a submersible tourist vessel which went missing during a voyage to the Titanic shipwreck off the coast of Canada, with a British billionaire among five people aboard.

In this 2019 interview, Paul Henri Nargeolet — who is on board a submarine that has gone missing during a tour of the Titanic's wreckage — tells Ellie O’Byrne about the joys and controversies of his work, ahead of a talk about his work in Cork, where his family lives.

US and Canadian ships and planes have swarmed the area about 1,450km east of Cape Cod