On Tuesday, searchers are rushing to locate a missing submarine in the northern Atlantic Ocean before the five individuals onboard run out of oxygen. The Titan submarine was sent to record the remains of the massive passenger ship that went down in 1912. According to reports, the submarine’s Canadian support ship, the Polar Prince, lost communication with the vehicle approximately 45 minutes after it began its Sunday dive. The Joint Rescue Coordination Center in Canada reports that searchers are looking in a region roughly 700 kilometers south of St. John’s, Newfoundland. There is just 96 hours of oxygen available in the little submersible, which is why the search is urgent, according to those engaged. They predict that on Thursday early, the oxygen supply might run out.
The Polar Prince was located early on Tuesday, 690 kilometers southeast of St. John’s, according to the Associated Press (AP). There was another ship nearby, the Deep Energy, which might have helped with the search. Aerial vehicles from the United States and Canada are also engaged. “It is a remote area—and it is a challenge to conduct a search in that remote area,” stated U.S. Coast Guard commander Rear Admiral John Mauger. According to OceanGate Expeditions, among those on board are British businessman Hamish Harding, Shahzada Dawood, a Pakistani native, and his son Suleman.
Paul-Henri Nargeolet, a 77-year-old French explorer, and Stockton Rush, the head of OceanGate Expeditions, were both purportedly on board. Officials haven’t disclosed who was on the Titan, though. Last year, David Pogue, a reporter for CBS News, took a trip on the Titan. According to him, the submarine communicates with the support ship via two methods: text messages and safety sounds known as pings that are sent every 15 minutes to indicate that the system is still operational. About one hour and forty-five minutes after the Titan sank, both of those systems failed.
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