A rescue effort would contend with limited visibility, extremely high pressure and an ocean floor crowded with pieces of Titanic’s wreckage that make sonar identification of Titan difficult.
, the Coast Guard announced that the total search area had been extended to 10,000 square miles and that a Canadian P-3 aircraft capable of conducting sonar searches had arrived on the scene.
Underscoring the challenges, on Tuesday, the British Ministry of Defense, which is not involved in the search, said reports suggested that the depths involved greatly exceed the capabilities of NATO’s submarine rescue system. “We don’t have equipment on-site yet that can do a comprehensive sonar survey of the bottom. But we’re working very closely with our partners within the federal government and within the Canadian armed forces, and with private resources to provide that capability,” Mauger said, without specifying what the technology would be.
. That submersible is equipped with high-resolution cameras, sonar technology and uses an “umbilical cord” to connect to a surface vessel. The Navy describes it as “self-contained and flyaway transportable,” meaning it can be deployed worldwide.In 2022, the Navy deployed the Curv-21 in a 37-day mission to recover the wreckage of an F-35 fighter jet from a depth of approximately 12,400 feet in the South China Sea.
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