US Coast Guard continues to search for Titan submersible despite already running out of oxygen

The search for the Titan submersible, which disappeared last Sunday while trying to reach the remains of the titanic with 5 passengers on board, it continues this Thursday despite the fact that, according to Coast Guard calculations, it could already have run out of oxygen.

rear admiral John Mauger, of the Coast Guard, said Thursday in an interview with NBC that the search and rescue continues with the arrival of “new capacity.”

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Despite the “particularly complex” nature of the mission, he noted, “people’s will to live must also be taken into account,” so they will continue to “search for and proceed with the rescue efforts with new capacity this morning,” he said. .

Thus, more high-tech vessels and medical personnel are moving to the search site, in critical hours, since the device’s oxygen could have run out, according to calculations that the Coast Guard has been offering.

On Tuesday, the Coast Guard rear admiral indicated that the submersible only had 40 hours of oxygen left, so the limit was this Thursday morning. In addition, the crew has limited food rations.

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This morning, remotely controlled vehicles (ROV) from the Canadian ship Horizon Artic, which are already on the seabed and are searching for the missing submersible, as well as the French ROV Victor 6000, were brought to the area. .

Belonging to the French Ifremer Research Institute, it has arrived in the area together with a group of operators from the Toulon maritime base. It is capable of reaching 4,000 meters deep.

The lights and cameras that the Victor 6000 has on board will allow the team on the surface of the ship to see in real time what is on the ocean floor and it has two mechanical arms capable of removing debris.

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After a Canadian P3 maritime patrol plane detected sounds of unknown origin, rescue teams decided to use these types of robot vehicles to analyze the seabed.

The operations take place 900 miles -1,448 kilometers- from Cape Cod (Massachussets, USA) and 400 -about 644 kilometers- from San Juan de Newfoundland (Canada).

It is an area that is twice the surface of the state of Connecticut (USA), which is 5,018 square miles (13,023 square kilometers), and develops at a depth of 2.5 miles (about 4 kilometers).

The search involves troops and resources from the US, Canada, France and the United Kingdom, with planes, boats and underwater drones.

Source: Elcomercio

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