US Coast Guard still focused on sub 'rescue' despite oxygen crunch
is still focused on rescuing the five-member crew alive, the US coast guard insisted on Thursday, despite fears that the vessel’s oxygen may already have run out.lost somewhere in a vast swathe of the North Atlantic between the ocean’s surface and nearly 4km below, moved to the critical stage.
“People’s will to live really needs to be accounted for as well. And so we’re continuing to search and proceed with rescue efforts,” he told NBC’s Today show.picked up unidentified underwater noises. The French research ship Atalante deployed an unmanned robot able to search at depths of up to 6,000m below water earlier on Thursday, the Coast Guard tweeted. Experts have called the Victor 6000 “the main hope” for an underwater rescue.
Mr Mauger has also said that vessels carrying medical staff and a decompression chamber are en route to the area.
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