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All Five Passengers Presumed Dead After Missing Sub Oxygen Runs Out
Hope Fades Away For All Five Passengers In Missing Titanic Submarine
Rescue efforts looking for the missing Titan submersible have intensified as the deadline for the remaining oxygen passes.
News, quoting a Coast Guard official, reported the people inside the 21-foot sub known as Titan would have sucked up all the breathable air by 7:08 AM ET Thursday — and we are now well past that point.
A Canadian aircraft searching for the sub in the Atlantic Ocean detected intermittent “banging” noises from the vicinity of its last known location. However, the US Coast Guard said they “don’t know the source of the noise”.
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Crew searching for the vessel detected banging noises every 30 minutes on Tuesday and four hours later on Wednesday.
Additional support has arrived this morning to help with the search, with the oxygen supply expected to run out by 1pm UK time on Thursday, as confirmed by the US Coast Guard.
Aboard the Titan is CEO and founder of OceanGate Expeditions Stockton Rush, British billionaire explorer Hamish Harding, renowned French diver Paul-Henri Nargeolet and Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his 19-year-old son Suleman Dawood.
The watercraft submerged on Sunday morning from its support vessel to travel to the Titanic wreckage which sits at a depth of 12,500ft. About an hour and 45 minutes later, the Titan lost contact with its surface ship, the Polar Prince.
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