LATEST: 'The odds are against them,' a former Navy sub captain says of rescue options attempting to save a submersible carrying five people that has gone missing while on a tour of the underwater wreckage of the Titanic.
Rescuers racing against the clock to save the five people trapped in a tourist submersible nearly two miles deep in the Atlantic Ocean are facing major obstacles that could make saving the people onboard extremely difficult, according to a former U.S. Navy submarine commander.on Monday that this type of rescue operation is complicated because there aren’t nearby U.S. or Canadian underwater vessels that can go as deep as the Titanic wreckage, which sits 13,400 feet below the ocean’s surface.
"You've got to get it exactly right," he told ABC News."It's sort of like ... getting one of those toys out of those arcade machines. In general, you miss." "We would put the vast majority of the crew to sleep because that's when you're using the least amount of oxygen and you're expelling the least amount of carbon dioxide," he said.Email this article
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