Oxygen runs out as the search continues for a missing Titanic submarine. Authorities in the United States and Canada are racing against the clock to locate a missing submarine that went missing during an expedition in the North Atlantic Ocean.
The search for the missing vessel is now on its fifth day, and experts claim that oxygen supplies for the ill-fated watercraft have run out.
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Oxygen runs out as the search continues for the missing Titanic submarine. According to international media, all efforts are being made to move all necessary machinery, with operations being led by ocean experts and engineering consultants.
It has been learned that a Canadian jet and large ships are searching for the vessel and have detected banging sounds from unknown sources.
Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his 19-year-old son Suleman Dawood, Stockton Rush, British billionaire explorer Hamish Harding, and French diver Paul-Henri Nargeolet are among those aboard the submarine.
The watercraft set out from its mother ship on Sunday morning to travel to the wreckage of the iconic Titanic ship, but it lost contact after an hour.
Stockton Rush, the founder of the company that owns the missing submersible on its way to view the Titanic wreckage, has stated that safety is “pure waste.”
“I mean if you just want to be safe, don’t get out of bed, don’t get in your car, don’t do anything,” Rush said in a 2022 podcast with CBS reporter David Pogue. “At some point, you’re going to take some risk, and it really is a risk-reward question.”
That mindset is now coming into focus as rescuers race to find the Titan, which is carrying Rush and four other passengers and is likely running low on oxygen, with only about 16 hours to go. For at least five years, ocean scientists and at least one former employee of Rush’s company, OceanGate Inc., have raised concerns about its safety procedures.
OceanGate, based in Everett, Washington, has been leading chartered expeditions on the Titan to the Titanic wreckage, 13,000 feet (4,000 metres) below sea level, since the summer of 2021 at a cost of $250,000 per person.
