I sailed on the Titanic submarine – we got lost for hours when communication system ‘broke down’ & never found the wreck

A TITANIC submarine with five passengers on board also vanished for HOURS on another expedition last year.

An ex-passenger who embarked on a voyage to see the wreckage of the Titanic said the vessel was “lost” because of bad weather last summer.

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Passengers on the trip, including CBS Sunday Morning reporter David Pogue, never had the chance to see the shipwreck after they lost communication with the surface ship.

";You may remember that the @OceanGateExped sub to the #Titanic got lost for a few hours LAST summer, too, when I was aboard," Pogue said on Twitter.

In the resurfaced clip of the expedition, Pogue says: "There's no GPS underwater, so the surface ship is supposed to guide the ship to the shipwreck by sending text messages.

“But on this dive, communication somehow broke down. The sub never found the wreck."

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Pogue had raised safety concerns about the now-missing vessel, commenting that it appeared "improvised".

Asked on Monday if the five people on the current trip could survive, Pogue said: "Communication with the sub is lost... AND they don’t know where it is.

"Yes, they could still be OK. They have 4 days of oxygen, and 7 ways to rise to the surface. The question is, why HAVEN’T they?"

In the CBS clip, investment firm CEO Shrenik Baldota - who was on the 2022 voyage - can be heard saying: "We were lost. We were lost for two and a half hours."

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Rescue crews are now frantically searching the Atlantic Ocean after the submarine again vanished on Sunday.

The sub set sail from St John's in Newfoundland at around 4am on Sunday.

Just one hour and 45 minutes into the expedition the submarine lost contact with its transport vessel - the Polar Prince.

Last on Sunday night, the vessel was reported “overdue”.

It’s believed this is when the alarm was raised and the Coast Guard were notified.

OceanGate, one of few companies offering trips to see the ruins, confirmed a major search mission has been launched to "bring the crew back safely".

What we know:

• Frantic rescue mission to find the missing Titan submarine which vanished while exploring the Titanic
• US Coast Guard fear sub only has oxygen to last until 12pm on Thursday
• Five people on board the submarine have all been named - including Brit billionaire Hamish Harding
• OceanGate boss Stockton Rush, French sub-pilot Paul-Henry Nargeolet, businessman Shahzada Dawood and his son Sulaiman have been named
• Ships and planes combing the area around the wreck using sonar to find the sub
• US and Canada leading rescue mission with UK teamson standby
• Fears the tourist submarine could be "tangled" in wreck of the Titanic
• Pal of Hamish reveals his final text message talking about bad weather ahead of the mission
• Timeline reveals the last movements of the Titan before she went dark

Tickets for tourists to see the wreckage - which is around 600km off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada - cost up to £195,000.

One of the missing passengers has been named as aviator and businessman Hamish Harding.

Harding posted on Facebook about poor weather conditions before the trip began.

French submersible pilot Paul-Henry Nargeolet is also on board.

Nargeolet is the Director of Underwater Research Program at Premier Exhibitions, RMS Titanic, Inc.

Stockton Rush, the CEO of the company which provided the submarine, is also feared to be one of five passengers missing.

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The diving expert previously spoke frankly of the extreme dangers of deep-sea exploration in an interview.

It's thought the pair have been accompanied by Stockton Rush, the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of OceanGate Inc - the company carrying out the expedition.

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