New assets arrive in search for OceanGate Titan sub after Canadians pick up 'underwater noises'

FOX News ^ | Last Update June 21, 2023 10:43am ET | Michael Ruiz

[Red Badger]

The search for the missing OceanGate Titan submarine, which disappeared Sunday during a dive to the wreckage of the Titanic in the Atlantic Ocean, is now in its fourth day. The Coast Guard estimated Tuesday afternoon that there were about 40 to 41 hours of oxygen remaining on the vessel, which is carrying five people.

BOSTON – Three new vessels arrived "on-scene" in the Atlantic Ocean Wednesday morning to join search and rescue efforts for the missing OceanGate Titan sub as the estimated oxygen supply on board continues to dwindle.

The U.S. Coast Guard said the new vessels bring additional tools to scan the ocean floor as they race against the clock to save the five people onboard: OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, British businessman Hamish Harding, father-and-son Shahzada and Suleman Dawood, who are members of one of Pakistan’s wealthiest families, and Paul-Henry Nargeolet, a former French navy officer and leading Titanic expert.

"The John Cabot has side-scanning sonar capabilities and is conducting search patterns alongside the Skandi Vinland and the Atlantic Merlin," the Coast Guard said.

The John Cabot is a Canadian coast guard vessel, the Atlantic Merlin is a Canadian remotely operated vehicle (ROV), and the Skandi Vinland is a commercial ROV, authorities said. Several additional assets were still headed toward the search area.

The U.S. Coast Guard said Wednesday it is holding another press conference at 1 p.m. ET. regarding the search for OceanGate's missing Titan submarine.

In a tweet, it said in the search area for the missing Titan submarine, "winds [are] at 23mph with gusts up to 30mph."

"Sea state is 6-7ft swells with an air temp of 50°f," it added.

The search for the missing Titan submarine is now in its fourth day.

[Red Badger]

No, it is/was round..................

[Red Badger]

Harbor Freight!................

[1Old Pro]

Maybe they simply forgot to charge the battery that operated the propellers.

[Red Badger]

BUT, the manufacturer of the window would not guarantee it to that depth...................

[Red Badger]

It occurred to me that the electric motors could have froze up. It’s pretty cold down there....................

[null and void]

The de Havilland Comet had square windows. Stress cracks developed at the corners and unzipped the roof.

[Red Badger]

Yes, it took me a while to decipher what your point was. I remembered the square window problem................

[Toespi]

If they can bang, doesn’t it make more sense to use the SOS distress code?

[lodi90]

So what’s the salvage plan if they find it?

[Red Badger]

Only 50 year old white guys know that code..............

[PIF]

So what’s the salvage plan if they find it?

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I have no idea.

[PIF]

Is there a device capable of deploying
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Who knows?

[PIF]

They aren’t using any oxygen, and haven’t been since contact was lost.

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Likely but that’s just an opinion, not a fact.

[StAnDeliver]

"That's an interesting discussion involving the word "imploded". For underwater vehicles (submaries/submersibles), I've heard it proposed that what happens is that rather than a complete structural failure, the weakest thru-hull fitting gives way and the vessel floods rapidly and the pressure on the hull becomes equal inside and outside. That having been accomplished, the pressure hull suffers no further damage. This scenario is rather different than being "crushed" like an aluminum can underfoot."

Here's the problem with that. In that scenario, the communications and telemetry devices would have survived long enough to be pinged from the mother ship all the way to the ocean floor, and location would be down to maybe 5 square miles, at most. That did not happen.

[Jim Noble]

So what’s the salvage plan if they find it?

Call up some old white guys.

[1Old Pro]

So what’s the salvage plan if they find it? Call up some old white guys.

They're the only ones capable of doing the heavy lifting.

[Ikemeister]

At depths like we’re dealing with here, there would be no rapid flooding. Even a hole the size of a pin prick would bring a catastrophic implosion that would happen in less than a millisecond: much faster than a human’s brain can respond to any stimulus (25 ms).

[Locomotive Breath]

the communications and telemetry devices would have survived long enough to be pinged from the mother ship all the way to the ocean floor

In the event of a failure of a thru hull the submersible would have filled with high pressure water nearly instantaneously destroying the electronics and the people just as fast as an implosion. Really a distinction without a difference.