It's not even the first time it got lost.
report, but the prognosis isn't great either way. Typically, submarines can drop weights to have them return to the surface quickly in case of emergency.
"If there was a power failure and/or communication failure, this might have happened, and the submersible would then be bobbing about on the surface waiting to be found," Alistair Greig, a professor of marine engineering at University College London,If there's a leak in the hull, "options are very limited," Greig added. "There are very few vessels that can get that deep, and certainly not divers.
Worse yet, Greig has his doubts over whether any such vessel could even grab onto the outside of OceanGate's submarine., both the US and Canada have deployed rescue aircraft, as well as sonar buoys to search underwater. For now, let's hope the OceanGate submarine fares better than the Indonesian Navy's KRI Nanggala, which
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