The dreadful demises of five people on an expedition to witness the Titanic wreckage this week have given rise to dangers of life-threatening travel into focus.

It proved to be a disturbing year for the adventure tourism sector, which presents high-risk travel toclienteles well-off sufficiently to pay for, comprising rocket journeys into space, hikes to lofty mountainpeaks and journeys to the ocean bottom. Seventeen people perished …

In the last few years, profitable space tourism businesses owned by billionaires like Elon Musk, JeffBezos and Richard Branson are creating headlines for sending the paying clients into space. However, in a recent incident, deep-ocean search, OceanGate, the firm whose …

A search and rescue mission has been launched in the area to track the submersible, the outlet further said. It is not immediately clear is people were on board the vessel when it went missing.

Adventure tourists, who are well-off, can now add another option to their bucket list, which is getting a place on a submarine diving almost four kilometres to the rusting remains of one of history’s most iconic shipwrecks, i.e. Titanic.   …