Titanic Submarine Missing – LIVE: US Coast Guard Set

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The U.S. Coast Guard has issued an update on the missing submarine.

Officials say they detected more underwater sounds in the search area on Wednesday and “remain optimistic and hopeful”

Nightly report claims “safety and quality control” issues were raised about the missing submarine in 2018 court documents (see ‘Security fears’ below)

British explorer Hamish Harding is one of five missing, along with British Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman

The others are French submarine pilot Paul-Henri Nargeolet and OceanGate Expeditions CEO Stockton Rush.

The submarine had about 96 hours of emergency oxygen on board, enough for Thursday morning

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Security Concerns Raised About Missing Submarine

Underwater sounds detected in the search area of ​​a missing deep-sea vessel are a “target” and a “focus” for the rescue operation, the US Coast Guard said.

The submarine, dubbed Titan, lost communications with tour operators on Sunday while about 700 miles south of St. John’s, Newfoundland, on a voyage to the Titanic shipwreck off the coast of Canada.

The US Coast Guard announced earlier on Wednesday that the Canadian P-3 aircraft has detected underwater sounds.

Later on Wednesday, the U.S. Coast Guard tweeted, “Three vessels arrived on scene Wednesday morning. The John Cabot has side sonar capabilities and is conducting search patterns alongside the Skandi Vinland and the Atlantic Merlin.”

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Vice Admiral John Mauger told CBS News: “This is an incredibly complex place there, you have to remember it’s the Titanic wreck site, so there’s a lot of metal and various objects in the water around the site.

“That’s why it’s so important that we brought in experts from the Navy who understand the science behind noise and can classify it or give us better information about what the source of that noise might be.

“In the meantime, it’s something, it’s a target, it’s a focus for us to look at.

“We’ve deployed the remotely operated vehicles and the surface craft, the Canadian Coast Guard surface craft, which has sonar capability, near that to see if we can detect anything in the water in that area.”

The Titan has five people on board, including British billionaire adventurer Hamish Harding, and the 6.7-meter OceanGate Expeditions ship may have less than 24 hours of oxygen left.

The others on board are Shahzada Dawood, his son Suleman and OceanGate’s CEO and founder Stockton Rush, reportedly along with French submarine pilot Paul-Henri Nargeolet.

A range of vessels are involved in the search, including the Bahamian research vessel Deep Energy, the French research vessel L’Atalante, His Majesty’s Canadian Ship Glace Bay — for a mobile decompression chamber and medical personnel — and four Canadian Coast Guard ships, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. .

Speaking to PA news agency, former Royal Navy submarine captain Ryan Ramsey said the rescue operation is more difficult because there is no replica Titan submarine to attempt a rescue if they find it.

He said: “It would have to be custom equipment. I don’t think anyone planned this kind of operation, so they would have to create some kind of custom process to get a cable around or an attachment point on that particular submarine.

“The problem with that is that most submersibles make two, for reasons they make two – for example, if something happens to one of them, the rescuers can go to the other ones and find out how they are. to perform the rescue.

“In this particular case, they’ve only made one and so there’s no way for people to work out what that solution is and solve that problem and get a successful outcome.”

He added that Titan may never be found as rescue efforts continue their efforts in a race against time.

He said: “Hope is a very human emotion, and we should all hope that there is a successful outcome. I really would like to be proven wrong and they are surfacing, in the next few hours they located.” , and everything ends well.

“But I think you have to be realistic, and the odds are against them in every way.

“We may never know the outcome of this because they never find out and so we have to assume that this is not going to end as well as we would like.

“My thoughts go out to the families as they have to struggle through this time trying to understand what is happening and hoping this will come to an end, but hour after hour as the time frame collapses that is very unlikely. “

The Explorers’ Club, of which Mr Harding is a founding member, shared an optimistic message on Wednesday morning.

President Richard Garriot de Cayeux said in a statement: “There is reason to hope that, based on data from the field, we understand that signs of life have likely been detected at the site.

In a statement on their website, deep water specialists Magellan said they were contacted by OceanGate on Monday and offered “immediate” knowledge of the location and expertise in operating at depth.

The company added that it has been working with agencies in the UK and US to move its specialist equipment and support crew to St John’s, Newfoundland, following OceanGate’s instructions to mobilize.

The Ministry of Defense (MoD) said the UK-based Nato Submarine Rescue System (NSRS) team is available to provide expertise and guidance for the search operation.

But reports indicate that the depths involved in the search are “much greater than” what the NSRS can safely conduct.

A Ministry of Defense spokesman said: “As the host country for the NATO Multinational Submarine Rescue Capability, we continue to monitor the incident in the North Atlantic and will provide guidance and assistance with any response activity as necessary.”

Meanwhile, the US media outlet Rolling Stone reported in an internal US government memo that “bangs” were detected by Canadian search aircraft at 30-minute intervals on Wednesday.

A former OceanGate employee had raised concerns about “safety and quality control issues related to the Titan to OceanGate’s executive management,” according to court filings.

David Lochridge, OceanGate’s former director of maritime operations, claimed in the August 2018 court document that he was unfairly fired after raising concerns about the company’s alleged “refusal to conduct critical, non-destructive testing of the experimental design to feed”.

After “quality control issues” were raised with Titan, the documents say Mr Rush asked Mr Lochridge to conduct a “quality inspection” report on the ship.

During this process, Mr. Lochridge had “numerous problems that posed serious security risks”, but he was reportedly “met with hostility and denial of access” to necessary documents before he was later fired.

The document claims he was concerned about a “lack of non-destructive testing performed on the Titan’s hull”, and that he “emphasized the potential danger to passengers from the Titan when the submarine reached extreme depths”.

On a November 2022 episode of his Unsung Science podcast, CBS journalist David Pogue interviewed Mr. Rush before going on a Titan expedition to the wreck.

In the podcast, Mr. Rush told him, “You know, at some point, security 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.

Mr Pogue said he had signed a waiver before embarking on the dive, which reportedly stated: “The experimental underwater craft has not been approved or certified by any regulatory body” and that the journey could result in death.

OceanGate has been approached for comment.

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