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While coast guard officials insisted they remained"hopeful," with a surge of assets and experts joining the operation and sonar picking up unidentified underwater noises, the challenge of locating and recovering the crew alive appeared increasingly formidable.
The sounds raised hopes that the passengers on the small tourist craft are still alive, though experts have not been able to confirm their source. Rescuers, who have received help from around the world, estimate that passengers may run out of oxygen on Thursday morning, based on the sub's capacity to hold up to 96 hours of emergency air.OceanGate Expeditions/AFP | Handout
Ships and planes have scoured 10,000 square miles of surface water -- roughly the size of Massachusetts -- for the vessel, which was attempting to dive about 400 miles off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada. "There have been multiple reports of noises and every one of those noises is being analyzed," said Carl Hartsfield, from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.Frederick said the number of surface vessels in the search would double from five to 10 within 24 to 48 hours.
Titan's mission was expected to be the only manned trip to the Titanic this year due to bad weather, Harding wrote in on Instagram beforehand.
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