The United States Coast Guard said Wednesday that they do not know the origin of the sounds detected in the area of the search for the missing submersible with five people when he was going to visit the remains of the “Titanic”.
“We don’t know what the noises are” heard Tuesday night and Wednesday morning in the area where the submersible is believed to have disappeared, said Capt. Jamie Frederick, a coast guard spokesman, who asked to remain “optimistic and hopeful” despite the fact that the ship has oxygen for less than 24 hours.
OceanGate is used to carrying out expeditions to the bottom of the sea in search of more data about the deterioration of the ship that sank in the ocean waters in 1912 and was discovered in 1985, this being the third expedition carried out in 2023, which was not supposed to have crew members due to weather conditions.
On its website, the company offers trips of eight days and seven nights to visit the remains of the Titanic, with an approximate price of 250,000 dollars.
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Rescue efforts are focused on an area located approximately 900 miles (1,450 kilometers) from Cape Cod in Massachusetts, where it is presumed that the submarine could be found, the Coast Guard reported on its Twitter account.
Teams from the United States and Canada are participating in the rescue operation, using some of their most advanced aircraft.
In particular, a Lockheed C-130 Hercules military transport plane from the United States and a Boeing P-8 Poseidon plane from Canada, capable of detecting underwater objects, have joined the operation, the Coast Guard said.