![]() ![]() Boats and planes searching for the submersible have now surveyed 13,000 square kilometers, Rear Admiral Mauger added. The search for the submersible, which so far has focused on the surface of the ocean, is now also taking place underwater, he announced Tuesday on ABC News’ “Good Morning America” program.Ī Canadian P-3 aircraft also dropped sonobuoys in the area where the titanic damaged in an attempt to record any sounds produced by the Titan, which measures about 6.50 meters. Rear Admiral John Mauger, head of the United States Coast Guard, explained Monday during a press conference that three American and two Canadian planes were mobilized to find the submarine. OceanGate Expeditions, announced Monday in a statement that it “explore and mobilize all options” to bring the crew back safely. “The crew of Polar Prince lost contact with them about an hour and forty-five minutes into the dive”, detailed, Monday evening, a spokesperson for the American Coast Guard. Read the picture: Article reserved for our subscribers The aquanaut Paul-Henri Nargeolet, “Mister Titanic” Search and rescue mission launchedĪuthorities were warned on Sunday by the craft’s operator, OceanGate Expeditions, a private company operating the submersible, that it had disappeared off the coast of Canada during an organized trip to approach the wreckage of the titanic. ![]() The missing submarine Titan, had started its dive on Sunday with a crew of five and an autonomy of ninety-six hours. (Newfoundland time), before operators dispatched from Toulon make the robot dive towards the wreckage, which is nearly four thousand meters deep. ![]() Atalanta, on a mission, should arrive in the area on Wednesday around 8 p.m. The French Research Institute for the Exploitation of the Sea (Ifremer) diverted its ship Atalantaequipped with an underwater robot for great depths, towards the site of the North Atlantic where the submarine disappeared, announced Tuesday the Secretary of State in charge of the sea. The American and Canadian coast guards continued, Tuesday, June 20, the search operations for the Titan, a small tourist submarine missing in the Atlantic Ocean, off North America, while engaged in an expedition to the sinking area of the titanic with five people on board: an American, a Briton, two Pakistanis and French aquanaut Paul-Henri Nargeolet, a wreck specialist.įor the moment, the search to find him has not “gave no results”the US Coast Guard announced in the early evening, adding that there are still “about 40 hours” of oxygen in the missing submersible. ![]()
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