An “oxygen countdown” clock ticked backwards from six hours during Ashley Banfield’s NewsNation show on Wednesday, and viewers slammed the move as “tasteless.”
An “oxygen countdown” clock ticked backwards from six hours during Ashley Banfield’s NewsNation show on Wednesday. Viewers slammed the move as “tasteless” and likened it to a New Year’s Eve countdown.The news channel did not run countdown graphic during the rebroadcast of Chris Cuomo’s show at 11 p.m.OceanGate said the vessel disappeared less than two hours after it submerged Sunday afternoon.
For Titan, that was Polar Prince, which it depended on for navigation to the Titanic wreck, which lies 12,500 feet below the surface. On Wednesday, a banging noise rang out every 30 minutes in the area where the vessel lost radio contact with its surface ship, though officials weren’t able to locate the sub before the oxygen timer ran out around 7:08 a.m. Thursday.search on an area about 900 miles off the coast of Cape Cod is reportedly continuingAn expert said few craft can reach that depth and even if they could, it’s unlikely they could attach to the submersible and tow it up to the ocean’s surface.
As of 7:08 a.m. on Thursday, there is no oxygen left on Titan — which went missing mid-journey to the Titanic shipwreck with five passengers on board.The Coast Guard is leading the search-and-rescue mission from both the sky and ocean with the help of Canadian authorities.
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