A Canadian military surveillance aircraft detected underwater noises while searching for the submersible that vanished near the wreck of the Titanic. A U.S. Coast Guard statement did not elaborate on what rescuers believed they could be.
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.
In underwater disasters, a crew unable to communicate with the surface relies on banging on their submersible’s hull to be detected by sonar. However, no official has publicly suggested that’s the case and noises underwater can come from a variety of sources. Rescuers have been racing against the clock because even under the best of circumstances the vessel could run out of oxygen by Thursday morning.
The submersible had seven backup systems to return to the surface, including sandbags and lead pipes that drop off and an inflatable balloon. One system is designed to work even if everyone aboard is unconscious, Pogue said. David Lochridge, OceanGate’s director of marine operations, said in a 2018 lawsuit that the company’s testing and certification was insufficient and would “subject passengers to potential extreme danger in an experimental submersible.”
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