JABAR EKSPRES – An international team is battling to find and rescue a tourist submarine that went missing in the northern Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Canada on June 18 while on an underwater tour to see the wreck of the sunken Titanic.
The team includes US, Canadian and French authorities who will continue their efforts by deploying planes, boats and other equipment.
With time running out before the five people on board were expected to run out of oxygen on Thursday morning, the United States Coast Guard on Wednesday (June 21) said a Canadian plane had detected unidentified sounds in the search area earlier in the day.
“With respect to those sounds specifically, we don’t know what they are,” said Captain Jamie Frederick of the US Coast Guard First District.
A Canadian aircraft also heard sounds in the area on Tuesday (June 20).
The Titan submarine operated by US company Open Gate Inc went missing nearly two hours after entering the sea on Sunday (June 18) morning, according to a Coast Guard statement.
Stockton Rush, the company’s CEO, was also piloting the vessel, while the other four passengers were a British businessman, a French maritime expert and a British-Pakistani businessman and his son, according to US media.
The five were heading for a point about 700 kilometers south of St. John on the Canadian island of Newfoundland, and at a depth of about 3,800 meters where the wreck of the luxury liner Titanic lies.
The Titanic sank in April 1912 after striking an iceberg and leaving as many as 1,500 people dead.
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