- Unified Command Formed: US Coast Guard, Navy, Canadian Armed Forces, and Ocean Gate Expeditions
- Limited Air Supply: 40 Hours Remaining for Missing Submersible’s Occupants
- Extensive Search Efforts: ROVs Deployed, Multiple Aircraft Conducting Searches
The United States Coast Guard, the United States Navy, the Canadian Armed Forces, and Coast Guard, and Titan’s parent company, Ocean Gate Expeditions, have formed a unified command.
The five individuals aboard the missing submersible near the Titanic wreck have approximately 40 hours of air remaining, according to the US Coast Guard.
Tuesday at 6 p.m., Captain Jamie Frederick reported that the search for the Titan’s vessel had yielded no results thus far.
A remotely operated underwater vehicle (ROV) equipped with a camera has been deployed at the site.
Several research vessels with remotely operated vehicle (ROV) capabilities are preparing to join the endeavor, according to Mr. Frederick.
Mr. Frederick told reporters that a unified command consisting of “expertise from the United States Coast Guard, the United States Navy, the Canadian Armed Forces and Coast Guard, and the Titan’s parent company, Ocean Gate Expeditions” has been established.
He added that since Sunday, combined search efforts have covered an area of 7,600 square miles.
He stated that a Canadian P-3 aircraft is conducting a six-hour search and that multiple C-130 aircraft and another P-3 are scheduled to fly on Tuesday afternoon and evening.
Mr. Frederick stated that the combination of a surface search and a subsurface search rendered the operation “extremely complex.”
Even if the Titan surfaced, its occupants would be unable to exit without assistance due to its exterior bolts.
An ex-US Navy submarine commander called the Titan hunt “searching a football pitch with a magnifying glass.”
It is concerning to Captain David Marquet that they have not yet located it.
He stated, “It is most likely on the bottom; it is not on the surface. I presume that they are searching a large area on the ocean floor, inch by inch.
We could get fortunate and find it, but we prefer not to rely on luck.
The tone of Tuesday’s briefing, according to Captain Marquet, indicated that “they’ve kind of admitted the chances are extremely remote.”
The Coast Guard and other search and rescue personnel have combed a remote area of the Atlantic in search of a vessel with five people aboard that went missing on Sunday.
The search has been expanded into deeper waters.
According to the vessel’s operator, OceanGate Expeditions, the Titan was equipped with a 96-hour emergency oxygen supply.
On board are British billionaire Hamish Harding, Pakistani magnate Shahzada Dawood, and his son Suleman, OceanGate Expeditions’ chief executive and founder, Stockton Rush, and French submersible pilot Paul-Henri Nargeolet.
OceanGate verified on Tuesday that Mr. Rush is “a member of the submersible’s crew”
John Nathaniel Paschall, the stepson of Paul-Henri Nargeolet, has affirmed his participation.
Mr. Dawood has supported the Prince’s Trust International and the British Asian Trust for many years.
The King has requested to be kept fully informed of the Titan situation, and his thoughts and sympathies are with the Dawood family and all those involved in this incident and the attempted recovery operation.
Mr. Dawood is married and has two children, according to a statement from his family. He is the vice chairman of the Engro Corporation in Pakistan.
Together with his university-studying son Suleman, he is a British citizen.
The significant search-and-rescue operation is currently taking place approximately 710 kilometers south of Newfoundland, Canada.
The Polar Prince lost communication with the Titan 45 minutes after it sank.
Titanic, which sank in 1912 after colliding with an iceberg, rests at a depth of approximately 12,500 feet (3,810 meters).
Typically, it takes the Titan submersible two hours to descend to the debris.
