The U.S. Coast Guard says it is bringing in new ships and underwater vessels to search for a submersible that vanished while bringing five people down to the wreck of the Titanic. The full scope of the search was twice the size of Connecticut.
The area of the North Atlantic where the Titan went missing on Sunday is prone to fog and stormy conditions, making it an extremely challenging environment to conduct a search-and-rescue mission, said Donald Murphy, an oceanographer who served as chief scientist of the Coast Guard’s International Ice Patrol. The lost submersible could be as deep as about 12,500 feet below the surface near the watery tomb of the Titanic.
A U.S. Navy official said during a media briefing Wednesday that a special naval salvage system that could be used to pull the Titan to the surface has arrived in St. John’s, Canada, but it is expected to take another 24 hours to prepare it for use. The Navy said in a statement that the equipment is capable of hoisting “large, bulky and heavy undersea objects such as aircraft or small vessels.
U.S. Coast Guard officials say the search for the missing submersible in the Atlantic Ocean has shifted to an area where noises were detected by a Canadian aircraft. “I am sure it is horrible down there,” Karson said. “It is like being in a snow cave and hypothermia is a real danger.” The company insisted that Lochridge was “not an engineer and was not hired or asked to perform engineering services on the Titan.” The firm also says the vessel under development was a prototype, not the now-missing Titan.
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