News Nation - Ashleigh Banfield's, "Why did they wait so long to tap?".
[Expanding the video description . . .] A Canadian aircraft using sonobuoys in order to search for the missing OceanGate submersible, detected “underwater noise” on Tuesday, June 20, 2023 - from where the submersible was touring the Titanic wreck site. Ashleigh Banfield interviews former USN submarine commander Capt. Don Walsh (ret.), who also participated as a technical advisor for James Cameron's 2012 solo dive in a large pod-shaped submersible, the DEEPSEA CHALLENGER, to the Titanic site.
Capt. Walsh tells Ashleigh Banfield about the communications procedures for submersible explorations, that have been a standard - communicating every 30 minutes. The TITAN crew would have, should have, communicated so, during the submersible's descent. Therefore, the support group aboard the surface ship, must know more than what has been related to the public.
Capt. Walsh mentioned that some of the communications tended to interrupt 'the pilot,' but are still a necessary standard of operations.
1:06 / 14:18 Photo with front dome "hatch" open. [Might be Cyclops 1 - notice the shroud for the front dome "hatch."]
3:14 / 14:18 The TITAN Cyclops 2 can send PING's back to the surface mothership:
The communications that they have . . . They do not have any radio communications because radio waves do not go through the water. They have a rudimentary system which is like a SONAR system. The vessel sends a PING back to the [mothership] vessel every 15 minutes, and within that PING, they can send very short text messages like the old text system that we had before smart phones.