![]() ![]() Among the five additional vessels traveling to the area is the L’Atalante, a French research vessel with underwater robots that can operate as deep as 19,685 feet. The remotely operated vehicles currently diving can reach depths of 13,123 feet, Frederick said. Canadian and American aircraft are surveying the surface and using sonobuoys for subsurface searches. The Polar Prince, the research vessel that the Titan launched from, and Deep Energy, a Bahamian research vessel, also are on the scene. Three additional ships joined the search Wednesday: the John Cabot, a Canadian coast guard ship equipped with scanning sonar capabilities the Skandi Vinland, a commercial vessel from Norway and the Atlantic Merlin, another Canadian coast guard ship that has remotely operated vehicles, officials said. ![]() He describes what the conditions might be like onboard. World & Nation Frozen feet, cramped quarters: What it’s like in the Titan submersibleĪlfred Hagen has taken two voyages on the Titan submersible, which is now missing near the site of the Titanic shipwreck. “We’ll continue to put every available asset that we have in an effort to find the Titan and the group members.” “This is a search-and-rescue mission, 100%,” Frederick said. ![]() Officials remain hopeful and optimistic about their mission. The search area had grown to roughly twice the size of Connecticut and about 2½ miles deep Wednesday, officials said. He emphasized that the team is continuing to search the area where the noises were detected. The team will be looking at the pitch, duration and repetition rate of the sounds to determine their origin, she wrote.įrederick said Wednesday that he had not heard that the noises were at 30-minute intervals. One clue is whether the source is stationary or mobile, she said. In an email, Simone Baumann-Pickering, an acoustic ecologist at UC San Diego, said multiple sonobuoys can be used to localize a sound source. The report was based on internal emails from the Department of Homeland Security’s National Operations Center that said a Canadian aircraft had detected the noises after deploying several small listening devices called sonobuoys. The Coast Guard confirmed the noises Tuesday evening on Twitter after Rolling Stone magazine reported that “banging” had been detected at 30-minute intervals within the area where the submersible disappeared Sunday. ![]()
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