In search of the missing submarine titanium in the North Atlantic off Newfoundland, emergency services may have heard a sign of life from the occupants. Search teams detected one type of noise every 30 minutes Tuesday in the area where the submarine is suspected to be located, according to an internal US government memo. hence the broadcaster CNN and the magazine Rolling stone citation. Later, after more sonars were deployed, the shots could still be heard, she said. According to the memo, however, it was unclear exactly when and for how long the noise had been heard.
In an update that was sent Tuesday evening, other noises were expected to be mentioned, but according to CNN they were no longer described as “knocking”. The beeps indicated there was still hope for the survivors, she said. THE The US Coast Guard also announced itthat a Canadian research aircraft had received “underwater noise”. Underwater robots have been moved to the area to investigate the origin of the noise, so far without success.
The oxygen will last until noon on Thursday
The small vehicle of 6.70 meters and 10.4 tons was headed for the wreck titanic and has been missing since Sunday morning. According to authorities’ estimates, the oxygen should only last until Thursday noon (CEST) – by five o’clock on Wednesday it was about 30 hours.
There are five people on board: French explorer Paul-Henri Nargeolet, British adventurer Hamish Harding and Anglo-Pakistani business consultant Shahzada Dawood and his 19-year-old son Suleman. The captain is the head of the Oceangate operating company, Stockton Rush.
A man who led the expedition to titanic two years ago as a tourist, he retrospectively calls diving a “suicide command.” in one Mirror-Interview describes the entrepreneur from Lower Bavaria Arthur Loibl the bad conditions of titanium: There had been problems with the batteries, repairs had become necessary, a dive had to be interrupted at a depth of 1600 meters.
Also the situation on board the titanium According to Loibl, it should be extremely tense: “It’s a very small space, there are no chairs, there’s nothing. There are five of you sitting on the floor, so close that sometimes your legs cross. You shouldn’t be afraid of contact Standing or kneeling is not possible And since electricity then had to be saved, Loibl assumes that the passengers are now sitting in the dark.
These descriptions are backed up by serious security issues that experts THE New York Times second years ago about titanium “We are concerned that Oceangate’s current experimental approach could lead to adverse outcomes (ranging from minor to catastrophic),” they wrote. in a 2018 letter, which the newspaper published. Oceangate operates the titanium, the company is accused of deceptive marketing in the letter. His boss Rush had to have the boat tested by an independent body.
Apparently this corresponds to the impressions that journalist David Pogue of the US broadcaster CBS had made during a trip last year. He told the BBC the vehicle looked improvised to him. “You control this sub with an Xbox game controller,” Pogue said. Part of the ballast is construction pipes. If the boat stalls or leaks, “there’s no backup, no escape pod,” he said.
The search area is huge: according to the coast guard, almost 26 square kilometers were searched on Tuesday evening. Eight other vessels are en route to the crash site, including four Canadian Coast Guard vessels and the French research vessel The Atalanta as well as Canada’s HMCS Glace Baythat it has a decompression chamber and medical personnel on board, the U.S. Coast Guard said Tuesday evening.
After being rescued, divers who have been in an accident must enter such a hyperbaric chamber as quickly as possible to avoid permanent damage. If people are under high ambient pressure for a long time, as is the case in large depths of water, they absorb more nitrogen than normal. This can lead to gas bubbles in the blood and tissue, which can be fatal if they travel to the brain.
