Rescuers make last desperate push as final hours of oxygen on missing Titanic submersible tick down
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Rescuers make last desperate push as final hours of oxygen on missing Titanic submersible tick down

The Hindu  

The race against time to find a submersible that disappeared on its way to the Titanic wreckage site entered a new phase of desperation on June 22 morning as the final hours of oxygen possibly left on board the tiny vessel ticked off the clock. The U.S. Navy said in a statement on June 21 that it was sending a specialised salvage system that’s capable of hoisting “large, bulky and heavy undersea objects such as aircraft or small vessels”. 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”. Mr. Owen said the diver on board the Titan would likely be advising passengers to “do anything to reduce your metabolic levels so that you can actually extend this”. 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 Mr. Lochridge was “not an engineer and was not hired or asked to perform engineering services on the Titan”.

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