Coast Guard officials said underwater noises were detected by a surveillance aircraft and officials are searching an area twice the size of Connecticut.
“This is a search and rescue mission, 100%,” he said. “... We’ll continue to put every available asset that we have in an effort to find the Titan and the crew members.”: from pinpointing the vessel’s location, to reaching it with rescue equipment, to bringing it to the surface — assuming it’s still intact. And all that has to happen before the passengers’ oxygen supply runs out, which some have estimated might happen as early as Thursday morning.
Frederick said while the sounds that have been detected offered a chance to narrow the search, their exact location and source hasn’t yet been determined.Retired Navy Capt. Carl Hartsfield, now the director of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Systems Laboratory, said the sounds have been described as “banging noises,” but he warned that search crews “have to put the whole picture together in context and they have to eliminate potential manmade sources other than the Titan.
Lost aboard the vessel are pilot Stockton Rush, the CEO of the company leading the expedition. His passengers are a British adventurer, two members of a Pakistani business family and a Titanic expert. Sunday night, setting off the search in waters about 435 miles south of St. John’s. At least 46 people successfully traveled on OceanGate’s submersible to the Titanic wreck site in 2021 and 2022, according to letters the company filed with a U.S. District Court in Norfolk, Virginia, that oversees matters involving the Titanic shipwreck.
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