Search intensifies for Titanic sub with only hours of oxygen left

 

Search intensifies for Titanic sub with only hours of oxygen left



June 22 (Reuters) - On Thursday, a multinational search team crisscrossed the sea and skies above the century-old Titanic wreck for a fifth day in search of a tourist submersible that went missing with five people aboard and was just hours from the presumed end of its air supply.

OceanGate Expeditions, based in the United States, is in charge of the submersible Titan, which began its descent on Sunday at 8 a.m. (1200 GMT). Near the end of what was supposed to be a two-hour dive to the remote North Atlantic location of the world's most famous shipwreck, it lost contact with its surface support ship.

Advertisement Continue reading The Titan started out with 96 hours of air, so its oxygen tanks would probably run out sometime on Thursday morning. Experts said that a number of things, like whether the submersible still had power and how calm the people on board were, would determine how long the air would actually last.

However, the countdown to oxygen depletion was only a speculative deadline, assuming the missing vessel was still intact and not trapped or damaged at or near the sea floor's punishing depths.

U.S. Coast Guard reports on Wednesday that Canadian search planes had recorded undersea noises using sonar buoys earlier that day and on Tuesday gave hope to rescue teams and the Titan's five occupants' families.

The Coast Guard reported that remote-controlled underwater search vehicle deployments were redirected to the area where the noises were detected, but to no avail. Officials also warned that the sounds might not have come from the Titan.

Advertisement Continue reading "When you're in the middle of a search-and-rescue case, you always have hope," Coast Guard Captain Jamie Frederick stated at a Wednesday press conference. We don't know anything about the noises in particular.

Frederick also stated that the sonar buoy data analysis was "inconclusive."

According to the Coast Guard, the French research ship Atalante was on its way late on Wednesday to deploy a robotic diving craft that could descend to a depth well below that of even the Titanic's ruins, more than 2 miles below, in a highly anticipated addition to the search.

The French submersible robot known as the Victor 6,000 was sent out at the request of the U.S. Navy, which was sending its own unique salvage system to lift large, heavy underwater objects like sunken aircraft or small ships.

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