Missing Titanic Tourist Sub Has About 40 Hours Of “Breathable Air Left”

Titanic Tourist Submarine That Is Missing Has About 40 Hours Of “Breathable Air Left”

A sub that went missing while carrying five people to the wreckage of the Titanic has about 40 hours of breathable air left, the U.S. Coast Guard said Tuesday afternoon.

The sub had about 96 hours of oxygen at most onboard, officials said.

A Canadian research vessel lost contact with the sub during a dive Sunday morning about 900 miles east of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and U.S. and Canadian authorities have been searching for it.

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Coast Guard Capt. Jamie Frederick told reporters during a news conference that the “about 40 hours of breathable air left” was an estimate based off of the 96 hours of available oxygen.

Chief Petty Officer Robert Simpson, a Coast Guard spokesman, said there wouldn’t be a “hard-and-fast” transition from a search-and-rescue mission to a recovery operation when those hours are up, saying there were several factors that could extend the search.

Frederick said authorities were working around the clock on the search in the Atlantic for the missing sub, calling the effort “an incredibly complex operation.”

“We will do everything in our power to affect a rescue,” Frederick said. “… There is a full-court press effort to get equipment on scene as quickly as we can.”