Missing Titanic sub: Rescuers make last desperate push as final hours of oxygen on submersible tick down
1 year, 8 months ago

Missing Titanic sub: Rescuers make last desperate push as final hours of oxygen on submersible tick down

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The full area being searched was twice the size of Connecticut in waters as deep as 13,200 feet. Carl Hartsfield, now the director of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Systems Laboratory, said the sounds have been described as “banging noises,” but he warned that search crews “have to put the whole picture together in context and they have to eliminate potential manmade sources other than the Titan.” The report was encouraging to some experts because submarine crews unable to communicate with the surface are taught to bang on their submersible’s hull to be detected by sonar. The U.S. Navy said in a statement Wednesday that it was sending a specialized salvage system that’s capable of hoisting “large, bulky and heavy undersea objects such as aircraft or small vessels.” The Titan weighs 20,000 pounds. Frank Owen, a submarine search and rescue expert, said the estimated oxygen supply is a useful “target” for searchers but is only based on a “nominal amount of consumption." David Lochridge, OceanGate’s director of marine operations, said in a 2018 lawsuit that the company’s testing and certification was insufficient and would “subject passengers to potential extreme danger in an experimental submersible.” 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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