He told Checkpoint that rescuers need to take a chance on the noises. The vessel can only be opened from the outside and is likely 4km deep, where temperatures are at hypothermic levels and the water pressure is intense.Īn American oceanographer believes rescuers hunting for the submarine need to head immediately to the area where banging has been heard.ĭavid Gallo, who helped to create the first map of the Titanic wreck, says even if the vessel is found soon, it will take hours to winch up. On board are British adventurer Hamish Harding Shahzada and Suleman Dawood, a father and his 19-year-old son from a prominent Pakistani business family Titanic expert and former French Navy diver Paul-Henry Nargeolet and Stockton Rush, the CEO of OceanGate, the company that operates the sub.Ī French deep-sea robot has been deployed to the area where banging sounds have been heard, but whether the noises are signs of life is inconclusive. "Every step takes time and time is what we are running out of." Prof Alistair Greig from University College London told the BBC that if the Titan was found trapped in wreckage on the sea bed it would normally take two hours for it to rise to the surface under its natural buoyancy once it had been released. It lost signal with its mothership and more than three days later, its location remains unknown, Ten ships and several remote subs have joined the hunt for the missing sub that was off to view the wreckage of the Titanic on Monday. Rescuers are racing against the clock, with oxygen estimated to run out about 11pm New Zealand time. The US Coastguard has doubled the search area, and a French ship with a robot that can reach the seabed nearly four kilometres down is on site to assist search and rescue efforts. Salvage work must start within hours as the oxygen supply of the five men on board is running out. Photo: Handout, Joël SAGET / AFP / Dirty Dozen Productions / OceanGate Expeditions / DAWOOD HERCULES CORPORATIONĮfforts to locate the missing tourist submersible near the wreck of the Titanic in the North Atlantic are entering a critical phase. This combination of pictures created on Jshows Titan submersible passengers (L-R, top to bottom) Hamish Harding, Stockton Rush, Paul-Henri Nargeolet, Suleman Dawood and his father Shahzada Dawood.
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