A multinational search team scanned the sea near the century-old wreck of the Titanic on Thursday, the fifth day since a tourist submersible went missing with five people aboard and with just hours to go before its air supply was expected to run out.
The Coast Guard said remote-controlled underwater search vehicles directed to where the noises were detected had not yielded results. Officials said the sounds might not have originated from the Titan.
The French robot, called Victor 6,000, has arms that can be remotely controlled to help free a trapped craft or hook it to a ship to haul it up. The US Navy is sending a special salvage system designed to lift large undersea objects, such as small vessels.The wreck of the Titanic, which sank in 1912 on its maiden voyage after hitting an iceberg, killing more than 1,500 people, lies about 900 miles east of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and 400 miles south of St. John's, Newfoundland.
French oceanographer and leading Titanic expert Paul-Henri Nargeolet, 77, and Stockton Rush, founder and chief executive of OceanGate, were also reported to be on board. Rush is married to a descendant of two of the Titanic victims.
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