The search for a diving vessel that was headed to the wreck of the Titanic has shifted underwater after air efforts failed to find the craft, which has five people aboard and about 40 hours of oxygen left.
The U.S. Coast Guard and the Canadian Joint Rescue Coordination Centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia, have been conducting surface search missions overhead in the North Atlantic since Monday afternoon. OceanGate Expeditions, the operator of the mission, is leading underwater search efforts because of its knowledge of the site, Coast Guard Rear Adm. John Mauger said.
“There is a full-court press effort to get equipment on scene as quickly as we can,” U.S. Coast Guard Captain Jamie Frederick said at a news briefing in Boston Tuesday.
