An undated photo shows a tourist submersible belonging to OceanGate descending into the ocean. Search and rescue operations for one of the company’s submersibles, Titan, are continuing Wednesday.
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Rescue teams involved in the hunt for a missing submersible that had planned to visit the wrecked Titanic said “noises” had been detected early Wednesday close to where the sub ended contact with its control ship.
Experts involved in the search say that the sub, which is carrying five people, contains an oxygen supply that may run out early Thursday morning.
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The U.S. Coast Guard said that a maritime surveillance plane operated by Canada detected the noises, which experts from the U.S. Navy are now analyzing.
U.S. authorities said various underwater search efforts had been moved to the location of the noise to discover its source, but that so far, underwater drones operated remotely had “yielded negative results.”
Canadian P-3 aircraft detected underwater noises in the search area. As a result, ROV operations were relocated in an attempt to explore the origin of the noises. Those ROV searches have yielded negative results but continue. 1/2
— USCGNortheast (@USCGNortheast) June 21, 2023
U.S. Coast Guard Rear Adm. John Mauger said the source of the noise was still unclear.
“You have to remember that it’s the wreck site of the Titanic, so there is a lot of metal and different objects in the water around the site,” Mauger said in an interview with CBS News on Wednesday morning.
The U.S. Coast Guard tweeted early Wednesday that the data from the Canadian aircraft, known as a P-3 Orion,…
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