Missing Titanic Submarine Live Updates: Sub Has ‘About 40 Hours of Breathable Air Left’
The Coast Guard said Tuesday that it estimates that there is around 40 to 41 hours of oxygen left onboard OceanGate’s missing Titan submarine, which vanished Sunday during a dive to the Titanic wreck site.
Coast Guard Capt. Jason Frederick said rescue teams have searched 7,600 square miles of the Atlantic Ocean since Sunday. “To date, those search efforts have not yielded any results,” he said.
More search ships were traveling to the area, but he said the effort was “an incredibly complex operation.”
Still, Frederick vowed the search would continue. “We know there’s about 40 hours of breathable air left,” he said.
The carbon-fiber submersible, named Titan, had a 96-hour oxygen supply when it went to sea at about 6 a.m.
Sunday, according to David Concannon, an adviser to OceanGate Expeditions, the deep-sea exploration company that owns the vessel.
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