The Titan, operated by OceanGate Expeditions, is built to stay underwater for 96 hours, giving the five people aboard until morning of June 22 before air runs out.
Canadian aircraft detected underwater noises in the North Atlantic in the search for a tourist submersible that vanished while on a voyage to the wreck of the Titanic, the US Coast Guard said.
Rolling Stone, the first to report the news, said the sounds were detected by sonar buoys deployed in the area “close to the distress position” and that additional sonar picked up more banging four hours later. One pilot and four passengers were inside the miniature sub early on Sunday when it lost communications with a parent ship on the surface about an hour and 45 minutes into its two-hour dive.The wreck of the Titanic, a British ocean liner that struck an iceberg and sank on its maiden voyage in April 1912, lies about 900 miles east of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and 400 miles south of St. John’s, Newfoundland.
Separately, a French research ship carrying its own deep-sea diving robot vessel was dispatched to the search area at the request of the U.S. Navy and was expected to arrive Wednesday night local time, the Ifremer research institute said. Rescuers face significant obstacles both in finding the Titan and in saving the people aboard, according to experts.
If the Titan is on the ocean floor, a rescue effort would be even more challenging due to the extreme conditions more than 2 miles beneath the surface. The Titanic lies 12,500 feet underwater, where no sunlight penetrates. Only specialized equipment can reach such depths without being crushed by the massive water pressure.
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