Titanic sub has less than hour of oxygen left

June 22, 2023 15:54

A search operation by the Royal Canadian airforce

The Titanic-tour sub now has less than an hour left of oxygen supply.

Rescuers have rushed more ships and vessels to the site of the disappearance, hoping underwater sounds they detected for a second straight day might help narrow their search in the urgent, international mission.

But the crew had only a four-day oxygen supply when the vessel, called the Titan, set off around 6 am Sunday.

The U.S. Navy said in a statement Wednesday that it was sending a specialised salvage system that's capable of hoisting large, bulky and heavy undersea objects such as aircraft or small vessels."

The submersible, Titan, weighs 9,071 kilograms.

Lost aboard the vessel are pilot Stockton Rush, the CEO of the company leading the expedition. His passengers are a British adventurer, two members of a Pakistani business family and a Titanic expert. OceanGate Expeditions oversaw the mission.

David Lochridge, OceanGate's director of marine operations, said in a 2018 lawsuit that the company's testing and certification was insufficient and would subject passengers to potential extreme danger in an experimental submersible.

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