The Titan submersible.OCEAN GATE
The United States Coast Guard has admitted that at the moment “the origin of the noise” detected during operations to try to locate the Titan submersible in Atlantic waters is not known, although it has stated that at least now these possible signals are “an objective” to pursue in the race against time to try to rescue the five people alive who disappeared on an expedition to the wreckage of the Titanic.
The person in charge of this search, John Mauger, has promised in an interview with CBS News that they will keep looking “as long as there is any chance of survival” of the disappeared Experts estimate that the capsule will run out of oxygen on Thursday, although it is not clear that, once located, it can be refloated.
Mauger has explained to the BBC that, based on these forecasts, the device has less than 20 hours of oxygen left, although he has warned that it is a mere estimate. “One of the complicating factors in predicting how much oxygen is left is that we don’t know the rate of oxygen consumption. per occupant,” he asserted.
Canadian aircraft detected underwater noises on Wednesday of which hardly any details have been revealed, in a milestone that the teams involved in the search are still analyzing. Mauger has explained that there are many metal objects in the area where contact with the Titan was lostsearched from the surface but also from the air (in case it could have surfaced).
the submersible disappeared on Sunday about 700 kilometers off the coast of Newfoundland, without for the moment having clues about his whereabouts. She lost contact with the surface less than two hours after starting the dive, and experts early estimated that oxygen on board could last up to 96 hours, in the best case scenario.
