Oxygen on missing submarine has run out?

ABC News on June 22 quoted a US Navy official as saying that a mobile crane system of this force (capable of lifting objects at a depth of more than 6,000 m underwater) had arrived in St. John's, Newfoundland - Canada but was waiting for a transport ship to the area where the Titan submersible went missing.

The US Navy plans to weld the system - called FADOSS - onto the ship about 24 hours before leaving port.

FADOSS is used for all of the US Navy's underwater recovery missions. Last year, it helped lift an F/A-18 from the water after it crashed into the Mediterranean Sea.

Titan submersible. Photo: AP

The Titan submersible went missing while visiting the wreck of the Titanic. Photo: ABC News

Sean Leet, co-founder and chairman of Horizon Maritime, which owns the Polar Prince that helped bring Titan to sea, thanked the rescue forces, especially the US and Canadian coast guards, the French government and many private companies.

Mr Leet hopes the five people on the Titan submersible will be rescued and returned safely. "We will continue to hold out hope until everything is over," Mr Leet said.

On the morning of June 22, the US Coast Guard announced on Twitter that the Canadian ship Horizon Arctic had deployed a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) to the seabed to begin searching for the Titan submersible.

Rescuers of the Titan submersible are racing against time as the oxygen in the submersible is expected to run out by the evening of June 22 (Vietnam time). Photo: NAVSEA

Meanwhile, the French ship L'Atalante is also preparing to send the ROV Victor 6000 to the area to assist. The Victor 6000 is equipped with an arm that can cut cables and can secure the cable to the submersible before pulling it up with a giant winch.

A spokesman for British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said the country had mobilized a naval submarine and an aircraft to search for the Titan submersible.

According to the MarineTraffic website, the Titan submersible went missing about 2 km south of the Titanic wreck, after 8:00 a.m. on June 18 (GMT).

Previously, the US Coast Guard estimated that the oxygen reserves on the Titan submersible would run out at around 12 noon on June 22 (GMT, or 7 p.m. on June 22, Vietnam time).

However, experts say the 96-hour oxygen reserve in the Titan submersible could be extended if those inside took oxygen conservation measures, including lying still and even sleeping.

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