Although according to the calculations, the oxygen on Titan runs out immediately – around 2pm Greek time said the calculations based on the time he dived on Sunday afternoon – now experts argue that this the estimate may be inaccurate and how There is a possibility the five trapped people have properly managed the breathing air and to have stocks for a few more hours.

However, it is not known if there are any survivors as of Sunday afternoonwhen Titan detached from Polar Prince to dive into the Atlantic Ocean.

THE Frank Owena submarine search and rescue expert, told the Associated Press that initial estimates are for a “hypothetical consumption” of oxygen by Titan’s five occupants.

He went on to explain that the advice to the submarine passengers would be to do everything to reduce their functions so that they can prolong the oxygen.

Rescue forces were significantly increased today, in the hope that the underwater sounds heard from yesterday could lead to a happy outcome.

However, there are still many obstacles: from locating the vessel, to approaching it with rescue equipment, to pumping it to the surface – assuming it is still intact.

And all this must happen before the passengers run out of oxygen…

Research vessel reduced speed…

Research in the depths of the Atlantic Ocean, however, continues at a frantic pacewhile the hopes they dissipate.

French research vessel carrying deep-sea diving robots has slowed downas it reaches the search area, the Marine Traffic app showed.

Marine traffic data showed that the Atalante had slowed down at six knots and is about 20 – 30 km from the boat Polar Prince which carried the Titan before taking the dive.

The last video

In the meantime, they excite his last pictures Titan. YOceanGate Expeditions colleague, 22-year-old Abby Jackson, who was on board the ship Polar Prince which brought the deep vessel to the wreck site, recorded on video the moment the submarine is preparing to dive with its 5 passengers for a Titanic exploration mission.

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Tragedy unfolds in the icy waters off the east coast of Canada, where the Titanic sank in 1912. The wreck of it is located at a depth of approximately 3,800 meterseast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA.

The 6.7 meter long submersible Titan began its descent towards the Titanic wreck at 08:00 on the morning of Sunday (local time, 15:00 Greek time). He lost contact with the support ship he detached from after about an hour and 45 minutes, that is, minutes before reaching the famous wreck.

Meanwhile – after hopes were revived by the detection of sounds yesterday from the bottom of the sea – the hopes for locating and rescuing the 5 unfortunate passengers of the “Titan” they dry up as cabin oxygen runs out at 2pm.

A multinational search and rescue team is searching every inch of the sea for a fifth day today to the site of the wreck of the Titanic, in a race against time to locate the submarine.

There are five people on board the deep-sea Titan: 58-year-old British billionaire Hamish Harding, 48-year-old Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood with his 19-year-old son, 77-year-old French oceanographer and Titanic expert Paul-Henri Narzolet and Stockton Rush, founder and head of OceanGate.

“This is an extremely difficult time for the families of the crew members who disappeared with the Titan”US Coast Guard Chief Jamie Frederick said during a press conference from Boston. “When you’re in the middle of a search and rescue operation, you always hope”he added.

Tragedy at the bottom…

In the meantime to where the submarine is believed to be, rushes a French robot that can dive to a depth of 6,000 meters.

It’s about unmanned robot Victor 6000 can help free the submersible, if it is trapped somewhere, its operator reported. The French robot has remote-controlled arms with which it can cut cables or perform other maneuvers to free a stuck vessel. It can also dive to a greater depth from all other equipment currently at the wreck site.

But…

Even if the Titan is detected its retraction on the surface it will be a difficult task, due to the high pressure and complete darkness that prevails in those depths.

If it has already managed to return to the surface, locating it in the vast sea will be difficult, while it is locked from the outsidewhich means that the occupants cannot exit the submersible without outside assistance.

Questions about the safety of the deep vessel were raised in 2018 during a symposium of industry experts, and later that year OceanGate’s former head of marine operations, David Lochridge, took legal action against the company after he raised serious concerns about Titan’s safety and was fired .

According to him, the porthole at the front of the submarine is designed to withstand the pressure at 1,300 meters depth, not 4,000 meters.