A search vessel reached the sea floor near the wreck of the Titanic and began looking for a missing submersible in an increasingly desperate effort to rescue the five-man crew before the dwindling air supply runs out.
The Canadian ship Horizon Atlantic deployed the remotely operated vessel, the U.S. Coast Guard said Thursday in a tweet. French vessel L’Atalante reached the search area and launched its own so-called ROV, the Coast Guard also said.
“We have to remain optimistic and hopeful,” Coast Guard Captain Jamie Frederick said at a briefing in Boston on Wednesday. It’s not clear whether there’s enough time to retrieve the submersible — even if it was found immediately — before its air supplies deplete entirely. On Wednesday, the Coast Guard’s Frederick reiterated that the aim of the taskforce was still to safely rescue Titan’s crew — and the search would carry on for the time being.
As equipment and more vessels raced to the search area, the hunt for Titan on Wednesday zeroed in on unidentified noises that have been detected underwater. The noises were picked up in the past two days by a Canadian aircraft equipped with sonar devices. The task of locating and identifying the sounds has been complicated by the clutter of noise from the growing number of boats on the surface. So far, searches by ROVs have come up bare. At the same time, the constantly changing weather, ocean currents and sea conditions mean the search zone is growing by the hour.
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