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The US Navy said it is sending experts and equipment to the search site “designed to provide reliable deep-sea lifting capability for the recovery of large, bulky and heavy submarine objects.”
The equipment, which can lift up to 60,000 pounds, and the experts will arrive in Canada Tuesday night, the Navy said.
The Flyaway Deep Ocean Salvage System (FADOSS) is a portable boat lift system designed to provide a reliable deep ocean lifting capacity of up to 60,000 pounds for the recovery of large, bulky and heavy sunken objects such as aircraft or small craft.
National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said earlier Tuesday that the Navy was on “standby” to assist in the search for the missing submarine because the Navy has “some deep water capabilities that the Coast Guard wouldn’t necessarily have.”
The submarine Titan, piloted by OceanGate Expeditions to explore the wreckage of the sunken SS Titanic off the coast of Newfoundland, dives in an undated photo.
President Joe Biden is “monitoring events closely,” Kirby said, adding that Biden and the White House are expressing their views “to the crew on board, as well as — no doubt — concerned family members ashore.”
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