The five-person, custom-built submersible lost contact with the surface near the wreck of the Titanic on Sunday, and has 96 hours of emergency oxygen on board.
A privately owned submersible carrying five people on a deep-sea dive to the wreck of the Titanic went missing at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean on Sunday. United States and Canadian authorities are now scrambling to locate it.
The Titan is a custom-built vessel that has not had its design classified. Made from titanium and filament-wound carbon fiber, the submersible is sealed from the outside. This means that the crew inside cannot open it — to be let out, a team on the surface must unseal the hatch. What could have happened to the missing submersible?It is too early to say what could have happened to Titan, though experts have suggested a number of potential scenarios as to how it went missing. These include power failure, hull rupture, adverse weather conditions, or the submersible getting snagged on a piece of the Titanic's wreckage.
The dive took place after a particularly harsh winter, during a brief reprieve from adverse weather conditions, Harding wrote before embarking on the voyage. How difficult will it be to find?According to Williams, there currently appear to be two aircraft, a submarine and sonar buoys searching for the Titan. The U.S. Coast Guard said it has flown over an area roughly"the size of Connecticut" to search for signs of surfacing. Williams noted the submersible would have had a transponder and transceiver to send and receive signals.
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