Mauger said officials have also been reaching out to commercial vessels for help. "Going into this evening we will continue to fly aircraft and move additional vessels." "We are deploying all available assets to make sure that we can locate the craft and rescue the people on board," he said. "It is a remote area and it is a challenge to conduct a search in that remote area," Mauger said. Coast Guard Rear Admiral John Mauger told reporters on Monday. and Canadian ships and planes have swarmed the area about 900 miles (1,450 km) east of Cape Cod, some dropping sonar buoys that can monitor to a depth of 13,000 feet (3,962 meters), U.S. Coast Guard said there was one pilot and four passengers on board and that the vessel had the capacity to be submerged for 96 hours, but it was unclear whether it was still underwater or had surfaced and was unable to communicate. and Canadian ships and planes searched on Monday for a submersible vessel that went missing more than a day earlier off the coast of southeastern Canada while taking tourists to explore the wreckage of the Titanic, officials said. Mr Simpson said: “If it’s on the surface, we’re fairly sure we’re going to be able to find it.June 19 (Reuters) - U.S. However, the US Coast Guard has not ruled out the possibility that the vessel could be on the surface. Capt Frederick said: “No, I’m not aware of that.”Īsked by reporters if a deep sea rescue was realistic, and what it would look like, Robert Simpson, another spokesman for the Coast Guard, replied: “I don’t know.” The US Coast Guard denied any suggestion the UK Government had offered to assist the search but had been told its help was not needed. The Ministry of Defence, which hosts Nato’s submarine rescue capability in Scotland, said it was monitoring the search.īritish officials said the depth of the water in the search area greatly exceeds that in which the Nato rescue system can safely operate, but that its team is available to offer expertise and guidance. However, she said: “It could either dislodge the submersible if it is stuck in the Titanic wreck, or tie a line to the submersible so it can be lifted by another vessel.” The Titan went missing on Sunday morning, less than two hours into an expedition to visit the Titanic, which lies more than two miles below the surface of the North Atlantic. Joe Biden, the US president, is “watching events closely” and the US Navy was on standby to assist the mission, said the White House.
He said an “unwavering effort” continues to locate the Titan and its passengers.
However, there were mounting fears the submersible, named the Titan, was trapped deep below the sea as Capt Frederick conceded: “To date, those search efforts have not yielded any results.” Rescuers have scoured a combined 10,000 sq miles, an area larger than Wales. A deep-sea search began on Tuesday for five people on board a submersible missing in the Atlantic Ocean, as rescuers said they have just 40 hours of oxygen left.Ĭapt Jamie Frederick, of the US Coast Guard, said the first dive with remotely operated vehicles (ROV) was under way at the submersible’s last known location, near the wreck of the Titanic.Īn international sea-surface search also continued in the remote stretch of the north Atlantic for a third day on Tuesday.
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