The race to find the Titanic sub reveals how ill-equipped the US Coast Guard is in dealing with deep-sea disasters, expert says
The US Coast Guard is ill-equipped for search-and-rescue missions involving missing submersibles such as the tourist vessel that vanished on a mission to explore the wreck of the Titanic, an expert told Insider.
Craig Hooper, a US Navy expert and CEO of the Themistocles Advisory Group, said the emergency highlighted a blindspot in the US Coast Guard's search-and-rescue capabilities. "The US Coast Guard has little to no organic capability to pursue complex, undersea rescues," Hooper said. Companies offer customers the chance to view wrecks and underwater marvels in submersible trips on several sites off the US coast, though none are as extreme as the site of the Titanic wreck which is more than two miles underwater in the perilous North Atlantic. , experts had flagged concerns over the safety of the missing submersible that operated in international waters and which was not inspected by regulators for safety.
Hooper said that search-and-rescue operation co-ordinators often had to sift through lots of offers of help, and decide which best suited the demands of the operation given limited resources and a narrow time-frame.
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