Global Courant
TORONTO
The US coast guard said Tuesday that about 40 hours of oxygen remained on the missing Titanic tourist submarine, which disappeared Sunday to explore the famous shipwreck.
Coast Guard members gave information about the search for the submarine and answered journalists’ questions.
“According to this initial report, there are about 40 hours of breathable air left,” said Captain Jamie Frederick of the First Coast Guard district response department.
“The search efforts are concentrated both on the surface with 130 aircraft at sea, and with radar and underwater with p3 aircraft. We can launch monitor sonar buoys, today those searches did not yield any results,” he said. .
Search teams 900 miles east of Cape Cod, St. John’s operates in an area 400 miles south of Canada, and mobilizing assets takes time and coordination, making it an incredibly complex operation, he said.
Regarding search and rescue operations, the US Navy is “on standby if needed,” according to the White House.
National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said in a news briefing that the Navy has “some deep-water capabilities that the Coast Guard won’t have.”
Authorities in the US and Canada are racing against time to find the ship that transported people to see the Titanic wreck site in the North Atlantic Ocean.
When she disappeared, the diver had 96 hours of supplemental oxygen.
Five people are on board, including British billionaire explorer Hamish Harding and renowned French diver Paul-Henri Nargeolet.
*Michael Hernandez contributed to this story in Washington
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