The search for a submersible carrying five people to the bottom of the North Atlantic took a grim turn Thursday as the U.S. Coast Guard confirmed that a “debris field” had been discovered by a remotely operated vehicle near the wreck of the Titanic.
The brief coast guard statement said experts were evaluating the find, which was spotted by a crew operating an ROV from aboard the Horizon Arctic, a Canadian-flagged offshore tug and supply vessel.The submersible Titan, operated by U.S.-based OceanGate Expeditions, lost contact with surface vessels on Sunday morning as it was nearing the shipwreck during a 3,800-metre dive that usually takes about two hours.
“That’s when most people are found in water searches, and after that time chances of survival reduce massively,” he said in an interview Thursday, citing low temperatures, declining oxygen and rising levels of fatigue.American authorities have said “banging sounds” were detected in the search area on Tuesday and Wednesday, though the cause was unclear.
“ people who are going down to look at an underwater graveyard,” he said. “Who cares how much iron there is in the water column around the ship, or how quickly the rusticles grow. To me, that’s of no scientific interest whatsoever …. I think it’s a plaything for wealthy people — a checkbox on a bucket list.”
The state-of-the-art Victor 6000 deep sea ROV, operated by France’s state-run ocean research institute, has robotic arms that could be used to secure lifting cables to Titan if the submersible is found, said Olivier Lefort, the institute’s fleet director. He said Victor’s powerful lights and cameras can be used to find things within a 25-square-metre area.As for Titan’s air supply, OceanGate officials have told the U.S.
Sign up for the CHEK Now daily email newsletter to get breaking news and the day's top stories sent to your email.The search is being conducted near a renowned fishing area known as the Grand Banks. Winds in the area Thursday morning were gusting up to 30 kilometres an hour, and swells were more than a metre high, the coast guard said.
William Kohnen, president and CEO of the California-based engineering firm Hydrospace Group, has said about 95 per cent of all submersibles are certified. Titan, he said, “is very much an outlier.”
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