Aircraft searching for Titanic submersible detects underwater sounds

A Canadian plane has detected underwater noises during the search for a submarine with five people missing after it landed 3,800 meters from the wreckage of the Titanic off the coast of Newfoundland.

The US Coast Guard wrote on Twitter, “Canadian P-3 aircraft detected noise underwater in the search area.” “As a result, ROV (remotely operated vehicle) operations were shifted in an effort to locate the origin of the noise. Those ROV searches have had negative results but are ongoing.”

With an estimated 30-hour oxygen supply inside the vessel, an international team of rescuers is racing against the clock to find the submersible and its passengers.

The ship Titan went missing on Sunday morning while diving to see the wreckage of the Titanic. It lost contact with the Polar Prince, a ship that had taken it to the dive site 900 nautical miles east of Cape Cod on the US coast.

US and Canadian aircraft and ships are searching an area of ​​about 7,600 square miles, which is larger than the US state of Connecticut.

Passengers inside Titan, which operates tours to the Titanic wreck at a cost of $250,000 per person, include Hamish Harding, a British entrepreneur, Prince Dawood, a Pakistani businessman, and his son Suleiman, whose family friends said That he was only 19 years old.

There has been no official confirmation of the names of all five missing, but several reports state that Paul-Henri Narjolet, a French explorer, was on board along with Stockton Rush, the founder of Oceangate, the company that built Titan and organizes it. Did. Travel

Captain Jamie Frederick of the US Coast Guard said Tuesday that a pipe-laying craft had arrived at the scene and begun a dive mission to Titan’s last known location.