Crews are still hoping for the best as they hunt feverishly for the lost submersible that disappeared on Sunday while investigating the Titanic disaster.
There were reportedly five persons aboard the submersible when it went missing an hour and 45 minutes into its dive with just three days’ supply of emergency oxygen on board.
The name of the submarine, Titan, has swiftly travelled throughout the globe. The hunt for the Titanic’s wreck has already been joined by at least five boats.
With just so much oxygen available, time is of the essence. Sounds of pounding were reportedly picked up near where Titan disappeared earlier today, but experts concur that the odds are “against” the people on board.
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Hamish Harding, Stockton Rush, Paul-Henry Nargeolet, Shahzada Dawood, and his son Sulaiman were all confirmed to be aboard the submersible.
Titanic wreck-visiting business OceanGate released a statement saying, “Our entire focus is on the crewmembers in the submersible and their families.”
These families are experiencing the agony of waiting. A frantic request for prayers and thoughts for Hamish Harding’s whereabouts was made by his stepson yesterday.
There have been rumours that Harding, a rich private jet broker, often travels the globe on exciting escapades.
While breaking the record for the longest period spent at full ocean depth during a dive in the deepest portion of the Mariana’s Trench, he was on board Blue Origin’s sixth voyage to Space with a human crew.
The lost submarine went missing 435 miles south of Newfoundland, Canada, and rescue crews from the United States and Canada are anxiously searching for it.
Author and marine operations expert Mike Welham told Sky that the discovery of sounds underwater was “really good news,” but that any rescue attempt “takes time.”
Welham compared the search effort to “somebody putting a 50p piece in a football field and trying to find it,” saying that time is of the essence and that “if these guys are still alive down there.
Now, which there are the indications this is so, they’ve got to find them.” “The seafloor is enormous,” he explained. The ocean is really deep here.
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