Can submarines go to the Titanic? “The vehicles designed for navy submarine rescue certainly can’t get down to anywhere near the depth of the Titanic,” he added. The Navy’s submarine rescue specialists can go down to a maximum depth of 2,000 feet of seawater, according to the Underwater Rescue Command.22 Jun 2023 This limits the options for rescue if the sub is on the ocean floor, and points to the potential use of an ROV, which was whatultimately discovered debris in the search area and led authorities to believe the vessel’s pressure chamber suffered a major loss. The Titanic wreckage is laid on the ocean floor in 12,500 feet of water, some 370 miles off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada. OceanGate claims that Titan”is the only sub in the world that can take five crewmembers to these depths.” “While the submersible might still be intact, if it is deeper than more than 200m (656ft) there are very few vessels that can get that deep, and certainly not divers,” Alistair Greig, a marine science professor at University College London,