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Missing Titanic sub search continues as air supply onboard dwindles
1 hr 6 min ago
"Very few assets in the world that can go down that deep." Expert says rescue would be complex mission
From CNN's Greg Wallace
If search crews locate the missing submersible deep in the ocean, authorities will face a highly complex mission to recover the craft and any survivors, an expert said Tuesday.
“There’s very few assets in the world that can go down that deep,” said Ret. Navy Capt. Ray Scott "Chip" McCord, whose 30 years of experience includes overseeing several salvage operations.
McCord said sophisticated naval craft could reach the wreckage of the Titanic at a pace of about 1,000 feet per hour. At more than 12,000 feet below sea level, diving and surfacing could take a full day.
At these depths, a remote craft would be able to explore a limited area rather than cruise along the ocean floor, he said.
“When you’re going deep, you usually go up and down like an elevator,” McCord said. “When you’re going shallow, you can go further like a nuclear submarine.”
Once crews have narrowed their search, they could deploy a cargo van-sized remote-operated craft to locate the submersible. The remotely operated vehicle, or ROV, is tethered to a surface ship with a two-inch thick cable to provide power and communication. The ROV could be moved to a Canadian port by military aircraft, loaded onto a ship by crane, and then steamed to the search site, McCord said.
US military ROVs have electric motors and cameras, but do not have the capacity to lift the missing vessel, McCord said.
Rescuing the missing craft from the ocean depths would require a second, more specialized vehicle known as the Flyaway Deep Ocean Salvage System, he said. FADOSS includes specialized shock absorbers to handle lifting loads of up to 60,000 pounds without snapping its cable to the surface.
The US Navy said that it is sending a FADOSS to assist in the search and rescue efforts. It is expected to arrive in St. Johns Tuesday night, a spokesperson said.
“None of that stuff works until you find the submersible,” McCord added.
1 hr 41 min ago
NY Times: Submersible industry leaders were concerned about OceanGate's "experimental" approach
From CNN's Elizabeth Hartfield
Industry leaders expressed concerns five years ago about OceanGate Expeditions' "experimental approach" to the Titan submersible and its planned trip to the site of the Titanic wreckage, the New York Times reported Tuesday
The Manned Underwater Vehicles committee of the Marine Technology Society penned a letter to OceanGate's CEO Stockton Rush in 2018, it said.
"Our apprehension is that the current 'experimental' approach adopted by Oceangate could result in negative outcomes (from minor to catastrophic) that would have serious consequences for everyone in the industry," said the letter obtained by the Times.
Specifically, it expressed concern over the company's compliance with a maritime risk assessment certification known as DNV-GL.
"Your marketing material advertises that the TITAN design will meet or exceed the DNV-GL safety standards, yet it does not appear that Oceangate has the intention of following DNV-GL class rules," the letter said.
The leaders wrote that portraying the Titan this way is misleading to the public and "breaches an industry-wide professional code of conduct we all endeavor to uphold."
OceanGate has not responded to a request for comment on the letter.
The company's CEO, Stockton Rush, is one of the five passengers onboard the missing Titan submersible, a source told CNN on Tuesday.
53 min ago
The missing submersible has less than 40 hours of air left. Here's where the search stands today
From CNN Staff
The five people onboard the submersible that went missing near the wreckage of the Titanic have less than 40 hours of breathable air left, according to the US Coast Guard.
The urgent search has not yielded anything so far, but officials are looking on both on the surface and underwater in the remote North Atlantic area. More equipment and personnel are expected to arrive soon, the Coast Guard said Tuesday.
Here's where things stand:
Some background: The submersible was part of an eight-day expedition to the Titanic conducted by OceanGate Expeditions. The search is focused around the site of the shipwreck, about 900 miles off the coast of Cape Cod. The submersible began its two-hour descent Sunday morning. It lost contact with the Polar Prince, the support ship that transported the vessel to the site, less than two hours into its descent, officials said. Search operations began later that day.
Latest on search efforts: The US Coast Guard is working "around the clock" to try to find the missing submersible, Capt. Jamie Frederick, with the First Coast Guard District Response Department, said in a briefing Tuesday. In addition to looking on the surface of the water, the team has underwater search capability on the scene, another Coast Guard official said. Deep sea-mapping company Magellan, most famously known for its one-of-a-kind deep sea imagery of the Titanic, is also working to get its equipment to the site. Weather and fog complicated aerial search efforts Monday, according to officials. But, conditions cleared up on Tuesday.
Collaborative assistance: The US Navy is sending experts and a “Flyaway Deep Ocean Salvage System” — which can lift small vessels — to assist, a spokesperson said Tuesday. The US military is moving military and commercial assets, according to the Coast Guard and US Transportation Command. France said it has dispatched a ship with an underwater robot.
Here's a look at how deep the submersible was going:
Who is inside: There are five people in the submersible, according to multiple authorities. One of them is Stockton Rush, CEO and founder of OceanGate, the company leading the voyage, according to a source with knowledge of the mission plan. The others are British businessman Hamish Harding, Pakistani billionaire Shahzada Dawood and his son Sulaiman Dawood and French diver Paul-Henri Nargeolet.
Family and friends of passengers: A friend of Harding told CNN that the explorer is “larger than life" and would be “calm and collected” in an emergency. A colleague of Nargeolet said the community of explorers and scientists is "in shock." Another friend of the French submariner said that he had been to the Titanic wreckage dozens of times and dedicated his professional life to its history.
3 hr 37 min ago
Missing submariner has been to Titanic wreck dozens of times, friend says
From CNN's Aurore Laborie, Joseph Ataman and Jessie Gretener
An undated file photo shows the Titanic shipwreck from a viewport of an OceanGate Expeditions submersible.
An undated file photo shows the Titanic shipwreck from a viewport of an OceanGate Expeditions submersible. From OceanGate Expeditions/File
A friend of Paul-Henri Nargeolet, one of the passengers on the missing submersible, described the French ex-Navy officer as someone with deep knowledge of the Titanic and a person who accepted the risk that came with these expeditions.
Mathieu Johann, a friend of Paul-Henri Nargeolet, said he hopes its an end "like in the movies, he’ll reappear very quickly to reassure us all.”
Johann is a Director at Harper Collins France and worked with Nargeolet on his book about the Titanic.
“He’s been there dozens of times. He has dived dozens of times on this wreck. He knows the place by heart, he knows its marine depths. He knows them absolutely by heart, right down to his fingertips, since he even took part in the cartography, the 3D map of the Titanic. So, he’s very experienced. So that’s what I find reassuring. At least he knows the place,” Johann said.
Nargeolet “became attached to its history" and the mysteries that may be inside the wreckage, he said.
“I know that his big thing is trying to find out what’s in the Titanic’s safe. I hope with all my heart that one day he’ll manage to penetrate that vault, which remains full of mystery 4000 meters under the sea," Johann said. "He’s also been married to the Titanic for 30 years. So I hope he’s still going to teach us lots of things because he’s a great man, humble and passionate and fascinating," he added.
Johann described Nargeolet as someone who “risked his life all his life" and that although he knew diving to the Titanic wreck is risky, it was just part of his daily life.
3 hr 56 min ago
King Charles III requests to be kept fully up to date about missing submersible
From CNN's Max Foster
King Charles III has requested to be kept fully up to date regarding the submersible that went missing on a trip to view wreckage of the Titanic, a royal source said.
Shahzada Dawood, who is one of the people on board the missing submersible, is a longtime supporter of The Prince’s Trust International and The British Asian Trust, according to the source.
The source said the King’s thoughts and prayers are with the Dawood family, as well as those involved in the attempted recovery operation.
4 hr 27 min ago
US Navy sending experts and deep ocean salvage system to aid in submersible search
From CNN's Haley Britzky and Oren Liebermann
The US Navy is sending subject matter experts and a “Flyaway Deep Ocean Salvage System (FADOSS)” to assist in the search and rescue of a tour sub that has been missing since Sunday, a spokesperson said Tuesday.
The FADOSS is a “motion compensated lift system designed to provide reliable deep ocean lifting capacity for the recovery of large, bulky, and heavy undersea objects such as aircraft or small vessels,” the spokesperson said.
A Navy information page on the FADOSS says it can lift up to 60,000 pounds.
The equipment and personnel are expected to arrive at St. John’s by Tuesday night and will be in support of the US Coast Guard.
The Coast Guard said Tuesday that the search has not yielded anything so far, but it is continuing to look both on the surface and underwater for the missing submersible. Officials estimated that the crew onboard has "about 40 hours of breathable air left.
By Helen Regan, Jessie Yeung, Adam Renton, Lauren Said-Moorhouse, Ed Upright, Mike Hayes, Elise Hammond and Tori B. Powell, CNN
Updated 2337 GMT (0737 HKT) June 20, 2023
What we're covering
A massive search operation is underway to find a submersible with five people on board that went missing Sunday on a trip to view the wreckage of the Titanic.
It's a race against time as the US Coast Guard said the vessel has "about 40 hours of breathable air left" during an update at 1 p.m. ET Tuesday.
Aboard are a British adventurer, a French diver, a Pakistani father and son and the founder of the company that operates the tour, according to social media posts, a family statement and sources.
The Titanic wreckage sits at the bottom of the ocean nearly 13,000 feet below the surface southeast of Newfoundland, Canada.
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