This is the submersible that took tourists to visit the site of the Titanic wreckage in deep waters. It has been missing for three days, as ships and planes sweep an area the size of Connecticut trying to find the vessel.
for a story last year, said the vessel should be bobbing on the ocean's surface given that features allow it to rise from the depths of the sea without electricity, and even if everyone aboard is passed out.
At this point, hope is"quickly fading," Pogue said, because while the vessel theoretically has four days' worth of oxygen, that supply has never been tested. Even if the vessel is on the surface, it cannot be opened from the inside, so air supply would still be an issue, Pogue said, adding,"we need to find them."
"It's not like iPhones [where] there are thousands of them that they can perfect," Pogue said."There's one of it," and some parts of the vessel are improvised. "The deepest submarine rescue ever performed was 1,500 feet. ... This is 13,000 feet. There's no other craft that can get down there in time," Pogue said.
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