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...