The US Coast Guard has confirmed that rescue teams looking for the missing Titanic submersible detected 'underwater noises' in the search area where the craft went missing two days earlier.
There is a race against time to find the survivors.
US and Canadian coast guard ships and planes are scouring around 20 000km2 of ocean - larger than the US state of Connecticut - for the vessel, which was attempting to dive about 650km off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada.Data from the Canadian aircraft had been shared with US Navy experts to inform future search plans.
The Pentagon said it was deploying a third C-130 aircraft and three C-17s, while France's oceanographic institute announced a deep-sea underwater robot and its experts would arrive in the area on Wednesday. Rescue efforts ramped up as a 2018 lawsuit came to light that alleged that OceanGate Expeditions' former director of marine operations was fired after he raised safety concerns about Titan.
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