2023-06-22 14:21:16
The United States Coast Guard remains optimistic, but the situation is considered increasingly complicated for passengers
EFE/EPA/PETTY OFFICER 3RD CLASS LOGAN KACZMAREK Watchman coordinating search efforts to find the submersible
The huge search operation for the submersible Titan, missing on Sunday, with five people on board as it headed towards the area of the wreckage of the Titanic, in the North Atlantic, enters this Thursday, 22, in a critical phase because the oxygen reserves can run out in a few hours. The Coast Guard of USA remains “optimistic”, but the situation is considered increasingly complicated for passengers on the small deep-water submersible of the private company OceanGate Expeditions, with emergency oxygen for 96 hours. The announcement on Wednesday, 21, of the detection of underwater noise by Canadian P-3 planes in the search area raised hopes and oriented the international maritime rescue team sent to the place. “We don’t know what the noises are,” said US Coast Guard spokesman Captain Jamie Frederick.
Communication with the small submersible Titan was lost on Sunday, almost two hours after the equipment began its descent towards what was left of the famous ocean liner Titanic, almost 4,000 meters deep and about 600 kilometers from Terra Nova, in the Atlantic North. Traveling in the submersible are billionaire and British aviator Hamish Harding, president of the private jet company Action Aviation; Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood, vice-president of the Engro conglomerate, and his son Suleman; French diver Paul-Henri Nargeolet, and Stockton Rush, CEO of OceanGate Expeditions, the company that operates the Titan, which charges US$250,000 (approximately R$1.2 million) per tourist.
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