The Titan submersible has up to 96 hours of life support for five people
Search teams are racing against time to find this submersible disappeared with five people on board in the region where the wreck was located titanic. This Wednesday, the 21st, searches were diverted following the discovery of noise and new reinforcements were deployed to the mission as the 96hour emergency oxygen is running low. “We don’t know what those sounds are,” Captain said Jamie Frederickspeaker of United States Coast Guard. The official urged people to remain “optimistic and hopeful” of finding the five missing alive. The area where the wreck of the Titanic lies is littered with metal and objects that could emit noise, the US admiral said. John Mauger to the American broadcaster CBS. “That’s why it’s so important to have Navy specialists who can understand the science behind the sounds, classify them, and give us information about where they came from,” he said.
Five boats equipped with sonar and cuttingedge technology have joined the search in the last few hours, helping to scan an area of 20,000 km² the equivalent of the state of Sergipe. Searches reach to depths of four kilometers while planes fly over the region looking for signs of the submersible. O Pentagon sent a new C130 aircraft and three more C17s. The French Oceanographic Institute also announced the deployment of an underwater robot. The Royal Navy of Canada sent a ship with a hyperbaric camera on board and specialists with medical assistance. Other boats also go there. The company that owns the Polar Prince, the boat that launched the submersible, Horizon Maritime, also confirmed it is sending another vessel into deep water with a search team.
Communications with the submersible were lost on Sunday, about two hours after the rig began its descent Wreck of the Titanic, almost 4,000 km deep. The British billionaire is sitting in the submersible Hamish Harding, The Pakistani businessman Shazada Dawood and your son Sulemanthe French diver Paul Henri Nargeolet It is Stockton Rush, CEO of OceanGate, the company behind the tour. According to the company, tickets to tour the wreckage of the Titanic cost US$250,000 (about R$1.2 million) per person.
*With information from AFP