the weather is gone
He told the US Coast Guard channel NBCThe oxygen supplies on the “Titan” diver were supposed to expire at 7:08 East Coast time (14:08 Moscow time).
Coast Guard Area 1 Response Coordinator Captain Jamie Frederick said it was impossible to give an exact time when the air would run out, and urged hope to stay.
According to the department, the oxygen in the bathtub should have been enough for 96 hours – four days. At the same time, the team of the apparatus has the opportunity to stretch these reserves for a longer period of time.
Communication with Titan was cut off on June 18, an hour and a half after it plunged into the wreckage of the transatlantic ship Titanic, resting at a depth of 3.8 km.
the search continues
Now the missing bath tub continues to search for a remote-controlled underwater vehicle that has been lowered from the Canadian ship Horizon Arctic.
Another drone prepares to dive aboard the French search ship L’Atalante.
Express newspaper reported that a British Magellan apparatus will also be sent to the search area. It was previously reported that the US did not allow British experts to enter the scene, so it was a significant waste of time.
Aboard the lost OceanGate Expeditions submarine are Stockton Rush founder, French deep-sea veteran Paul-Henri Nargeole, British billionaire and space tourist Hamish Harding, and Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his son, Suleiman.
“These people experience maximum stress”
Syracuse University Professor Emeritus Jeff Carson told Fox News that the diver’s oxygen levels may have run out sooner.
“I hate to say it, but they’re probably already depleted or extremely low on oxygen. Imagine these people experiencing maximum stress, breathing fast and possibly consuming too much oxygen,” he said.
At the same time, if scout members sleep like this and save air, their chances of survival increase.
At the same time, Carson emphasized that an underwater incident can be very serious because such baths are designed to be independent and easily risen in an emergency.
“You should have been able to do this by turning a simple wrench or something else down below, but that didn’t happen. This indicates that they either got stuck in a very complex way, or a long time ago, a few days ago, there was some kind of large-scale failure and nothing could be done, ”the expert said.
A representative of Aaron Newman, one of the investors of the American company OceanGate, told CNN that the bath tub is designed to return to the surface 24 hours after the dive. In addition, there are various systems and mechanisms on the ship, whose sole purpose is to get out of the water.
Alexander Inzartsev, principal investigator of the Institute for Marine Technology Problems named after academician MD Ageev, in turn, said that the body of the bath tub could simply collapse or explode at a certain depth.
“It has been reported about the fatigue of the submerged hull material, the presence of microcracks, recommendations to limit the diving depth. If everything were really like that, the body would instantly collapse or explode when critical pressure was reached. There have been similar cases in submarines,” he said.
At the same time, Inzartsev added that if the bathtub is stuck under the side of the Titanic or inside the ship, it is much more difficult to find it and can not do without lowering the second bath.
echo of 1912
according to the newspaper New York TimesBathyscaphe Stockton Rush is the wife of Venti’s owner, the great-grandson of trading magnate Isidore Strauss and his wife Ida – both of whom were the wealthiest passengers on the Titanic and died in an accident in 1912.
Wendy Hollings Weil married Stockton Rush in 1986. She landed on the wreckage of the Titanic three times.
His ancestors – Strauss – are known from the testimonies of survivors of the disaster. According to them, Isidor Strauss refused to board the boat because all the women and children had not yet been rescued. Ida Strauss did not leave her husband and they stayed together on the deck of the sinking ship until the end.