The five people aboard a submersible that went missing during a dive to the wreck of the Titanic have approximately 40 hours of breathable air left, the US Coast Guard has said. The submersible, named Titan, lost communication with tour operators on Sunday.
It was about 435 miles south of St John’s, Newfoundland, during a voyage to the Titanic shipwreck off the coast of Canada. Captain Jamie Frederick said a “unified command” of multiple agencies was formed on Monday to tackle the “very complex problem” of finding the missing submersible, but this has so far “not yielded any results”.
Speaking at a press conference in Boston on Tuesday, Captain Frederick said: “So, first of all, it’s an estimate, right. We know from the data we were using, a starting point was 96 hours. We know at this point we’re approximately about 40/41 hours (of oxygen left)."
