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It had lost contact with its support ship, the Canadian research icebreaker Polar Prince, about an hour and 45 minutes after submerging.Īmong those aboard are OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, who was piloting the Titan, British adventurer Hamish Harding, two members of a Pakistani business family, and a Titanic expert. The five-person watercraft was reported overdue Sunday night. Sunday, according to David Concannon, an adviser to OceanGate Expeditions, the deep-sea exploration company that owns the vessel. The carbon-fiber submersible had a 96-hour oxygen supply when it went to sea at about 6 a.m. Still, the remote location − 900 miles east of Cape Cod and up 13,000 feet below sea level − make the pursuit "an incredibly complex operation,'' Frederick said. military have been aiding the search, and the Canadian military said it provided a patrol aircraft and two surface ships. Besides that, three C-130 aircraft and three C-17 transport planes from the U.S. He added that an underwater robot had started searching in the vicinity of the Titanic and that there was a push to get salvage equipment to the scene in case the sub is found. ET Tuesday, meaning its oxygen supply could get depleted by Thursday morning. Jamie Frederick of the First Coast Guard District in Boston said the Titan, as the submersible is known, had "about 40 hours of breathable air left" around 1 p.m. As of Tuesday morning, a total of 10,000 square miles had been searched, according to the Coast Guard.Ĭapt. and Canadian ships and aircrafts had intensified search efforts Tuesday amid oxygen supply concerns. Navy experts for further analysis which will be considered in future search plans." "Additionally, the data from the P-3 aircraft has been shared with our U.S. "Those ROV searches have yielded negative results but continue," the Coast Guard said on Twitter. The noises prompted remotely operated vehicle operations to search for the origin of the noises.

Coast Guard announced early Wednesday.Ī Canadian aircraft heard "underwater noises in the search area," the Coast Guard said on Twitter shortly before 12:30 a.m. and Canadian crews searched for the small vessel carrying five people that vanished two days earlier in a dive to the Titanic wreckage site, the U.S. Underwater noises were detected in the North Atlantic Ocean while U.S. For the latest updates on the race against time in the search for the missing tourist submersible, follow our live updates for Wednesday, June 21. Editor's note: This page reflects the news of the missing submarine from Tuesday, June 20.