Canadian planes “caught” underwater noises during operations to find the submarine who has been missing since Sunday with five passengers close to titanic wreck, in the Atlantic Ocean, the US Coast Guard announced earlier today.

“Canadian P-8 planes detected noises underwater in the survey zone. Consequently ROV operations were moved to attempt to investigate the origin of the noises” the US Coast Guard announced via Twitter.

ROV surveys “had negative resultsbut they continue,” he added.

According to the magazine Rolling Stone, a Canadian plane P-8, participating in investigations, “heard knocking noises in that area every 30 minutes. “Four hours later an additional sonar sounding system was deployed and the hits were still being heard.”

In addition to these knocking noises, “additional acoustic signals were received and will help orient the surface media, while at the same time, the hopes of finding survivors are maintained,” CNN reported, citing an internal US government document.

Time is running out

A major research operation is underway in the hope of rescuing by tomorrow, Thursday, an American, a Frenchman, a Briton and two Pakistanis aboard a tourist submarine that went down to visit the wreck of the Titanic 4,000 meters deep in the North Atlantic. This operation has mobilized the American armed forces, which are reinforced by Canada and France.

Yesterday, Tuesday, at noon, the US Coast Guard warned during a press conference in Boston (Northeastern USA) that remain “about 40 hours of oxygen” inside this small submarine and that the “highly complex” investigations that began on Sunday have so far not “has no effect”.

The submarine Titan it was built to carry five people in great depths and is about 6.5 meters long. It began its descent off the northeast coast of the United States on Sunday and was lost less than two hours after departure.

Among the passengers there is a wealthy British businessman, 58-year-old Hamish Harding, who had announced through Instagram his participation in this extreme and unusual excursion.

The wreck of the Titanicin 1912, was one of the greatest maritime disasters of the 20th century.

Former diver and retired French Navy officer Paul-Henri Narzolet, 77, an expert on the Titanic wreck, is also on the trip, according to his family.

Airplanes were developed

Inside the submarine are still for this mission, each position in which it costs $250,000the Pakistani tycoon Shahzada Dawood48 and vice president of the Engro group, and his son, Suleiman, 19, were announced by this very wealthy family.

The company OceanGate Expeditions, which is the organizer of the trip and the American head of Stockton Rush is also inside the submarine, assured that it is “mobilizing all options to bring the crew to safety.”

The US Coast Guardwhich is a body of the US Armed Forces, initially sent two C-130 planes to the search area, “about 1,450 kilometers east of Cape Cod” (northeast coast of the US). A third C-130 and three more C-17 transport planes were to be deployed late Tuesday night, the Pentagon said.

These forces are reinforced by the Canadian Coast Guard, which has mobilized a warship. France also announced that the French Institute for Research on the Exploitation of the Sea (IFREMER) is sending a ship and its robot.

Treatment

THE american president Joe Biden wants the Coast Guard to continue its investigations and, if necessary, the Navy can be mobilized, assured the spokesman of the National Security Council of the White House, John Kirby.

As efforts mount, A 2018 lawsuit, seen by AFP, emerged, which shows that a former executive of OceanGate Expeditions, the David Lochridgehad been fired after expressing serious doubts about the submarine’s safety.

According to this former director of marine operations, the porthole at the front of the submarine is designed to withstand pressure at 1,300 meters, not 4,000 meters.

American screenwriter Mike Riceproducer of the famous series “The Simpsons”, has already made three trips with OceanGate Expeditionsone of which in 2022 with the same submarine that disappeared, he told the BBC on Monday.

As he said of his experience, “communication is almost always lost and you are at the mercy of the elements.”

According to him, no one is fully aware of the risks they run: “You have to sign a liability waiver before you go up and death is mentioned three times on the first page. It’s not a coach holiday, it can take a bad turn.”