Titan: The search continues despite the fact that there is no more oxygen

Searching for the Titan submarine that went missing last Sunday trying to get to the wreck Titanic with 5 passengers on board, continues this Thursday despite the fact that, according to Coast Guard calculations, he could have already run out of oxygen.

Rear Admiral John Mauger of the Coast Guard said in an interview with NBC on Thursday that the search and rescue was continuing with the arrival of “new capabilities.”

Despite the “particularly complex” nature of the mission, he pointed out, “People’s will to live must also be taken into account”so they will continue “the search and resume rescue efforts with new capacity this morning,” he said.

Therefore, more high-tech vessels and medical personnel are moving to the search site, at a critical moment, because the device may have run out of oxygen, according to calculations offered by the Coast Guard.

On Tuesday, a Coast Guard rear admiral indicated that the submarine had only 40 hours of oxygen remaining, so the limit was this Thursday morning. In addition, the crew has limited food rations.

This morning, remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) from the Canadian ship Horizon Artic, which are already on the seabed searching for the missing submarine, were brought to the area, as well as the French ROV Victor 6000.

It belongs to the French research institute Ifremer and arrived in the area together with a group of operators from the naval base in Toulon. It is capable of reaching a depth of 4000 meters.

The lights and cameras it has Viktor 6000 on board will allow the team on the surface of the ship to see in real time what is on the ocean floor and has two mechanical arms capable of even removing debris.

After the Canadian maritime patrol aircraft P3 detected sounds of unknown origin, rescue teams decided to use these types of robotic vehicles to analyze the seabed.

Operations take place 900 miles -1448 kilometers – from Cape Cod (Massachusetts, USA) and 400 -about 644 kilometers – from San Juan de Newfoundland (Canada).

Includes troops and resources from NOWCanada, France and the United Kingdom, with planes, ships and underwater drones.

The deployment of these new vehicles occurs when, in theory, the Titan submarine should have run out of oxygen.