The last communication from OceanGate ’s vas , theTitan , came in Sunday morning . Both the US and Canadian Coast Guard are deploy all efforts to locate the crew and passengers .
On Sunday morning, a deep-sea submersible operated byOceanGate Expeditionstook off on a tour to view the underwater wreckage site of theTitanicwith five people — including tourists — on board. However, about an hour and 45 minutes into the journey, thevessel lost contact with its surface ship.According to theNew York Times, both the American and Canadian Coast Guards are currently searching for the sub, and they hope to find it before itsreported 96-hour supply of oxygenruns out.
Here’s everything we know about the ongoing situation:
1.OceanGate Expeditions is a private company specializing in deep ocean exploration. According to theirwebsite, the venture operates a “fleet” of five-person submersibles — which are different than submarines, largely due to the fact that they need a mothership to launch from. The submersibles can reach depths of about 4,000 meters, and they’ve completed successful annual trips to theTitanic’s historic site in 2021 and 2022.
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2.OceanGate crews have manned ships for both research and commercial journeys. In the past, they’vedeveloped 3D model imaging of shipwrecks and provided opportunities for scientists and students to survey sea life and sanctuaries up close.
3.With regards to theirTitanicexpeditions specifically, the company says tours can last up to10 days. But it’ll cost you. The price of a ticket will reportedly run explorers$250,000.
While below the surface , specialists on display panel alsocapture new imagesof the wreckage anddocument botany and faunainhabiting the ship for next research .
4.The 23,000-pound missing vessel is calledtheTitan, and it boasts a real-time health monitoring system that “makes it possible to analyze the effects of changing pressure on the vessel as the submersible dives deeper, and accurately assess the integrity of the structure,” OceanGate’swebsitesays. “This onboard health analysis monitoring system provides early warning detection for the pilot with enough time to arrest the descent and safely return to surface.”
5.TheTitantook its dive near Newfoundland, Canada with five people on board who have been identified byABC Newsas British entrepreneur Hamish Harding, French diver Paul-Henri Nargeolet, Pakistani business chairman Shahzada Dawood, and Shahzada’s19-year-old son, Suleman Dawood, as well asOceanGate CEO Stockton Rush.
TheTitanicsankabout 400 nautical miles away from Newfoundland in the Atlantic ocean .
6.According toCNN, the last communication OceanGate staff had with theTitanwas at 11:47 a.m., and they expected the sub to resurface around 6:10 p.m. It did not, and authorities were called about 25 minutes later.
The@USCGis search for a 21 - understructure submersible from the Canadian research vessel Polar Prince . The 5 person work party submerged Sunday morning time , and the gang of the Polar Prince lost contact with them just about 1 hour and 45 second into the vessel ’s prima donna .
7.First District Commander of the US Coast Guard, Rear Admiral John W. Mauger, recently spoke at a press briefing about the missing vessel, where he shared that the submersible likely has around 70–96 hours worth of oxygen left.
" We understood that there was 96 hour of emergency capableness from the operator , " Maugersaid . " And so we anticipate that there ’s somewhere between 70 to the full 96 hour useable at this point . "
8.With consideration to the timeline, search crews are under pressure as oxygen is expected to last until Thursday morning.
9.Besides concern surrounding oxygen levels, a previous CBSreporton OceanGate’s fleet has also raised eyebrows. Five months ago, correspondent David Pogue took a trip inside theTitan, where he said, “Pieces of this sub seem improvised.” Inside, a handle was installed from Camper World, and a guide shares, “We run the whole thing with this game controller.”
10.“It seems like this submersible has some elements of MacGyver-y jerry-rigged-ness,” Pogue says in a now-viralvideoof his tour.
11.“There’s certain things that you want to be button-down,” CEO Stockton Rush responded in the video. “The pressure vessel is not MacGyver’d at all because that’s where we work with Boeing, NASA, and the University of Washington. Everything else can fail — your thrusters can go, your lights can go; you’re still going to be safe.”
12.When speaking on efforts made to locate the missing submersible, Maugersaid, “Over the night, we’ve flown multiple aircraft over the site, looking for any signs of surface of the submersible. The area that we search is roughly the size of Connecticut.”
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13.Besides the region’s great expanse, search efforts are also complicated by the depth at which the submersible may be located. “This is a complex case, and the Coast Guard doesn’t have all the resources to be able to affect this kind of rescue,” Maugersaid. However, he said they are ready to “deploy all available equipment to the scene that can be used to locate the submersible whether it’s on the surface or down beneath.”
" Folks have been mould around the clock to mobilize gear , to get it to the site , and to participate in the search for this submersible , " he concluded .
14.Rescuers are also using sonar to try to locate the sounds emitted by the sub, but it is not currently clear whether the vessel is equipped with noise devices used to alert listeners to their location.
“ No signal is very regretful news , ” maritime hydrokinetics professor Pengfei LiutoldNBC News .
15.OceanGate released the following statement: “We are exploring and mobilizing all options to bring the crew back safely. Our entire focus is on the crew members in the submersible and their families.”
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