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Searc h mission continues for missing Titanic tour sub
By
Hele n Regan
,
Je ssie Yeung
, Adam Renton,
Lauren Said-Moorhouse and Ed Upright, CNN
Updated 9:38 a.m. ET, June 20, 2023
What we're covering
A massive search operation is underway to find a submersible with five people on board that went missing on a trip to view the wreckage of the Titanic.
The vessel lost contact 1 hour and 45 minutes into its dive Sunday, the US Coast Guard said. It has between 70 and 96 hours of life support, officials said.
Among those aboard are a British adventurer , a French diver and a Pakistani father and son , according to social media posts and a family statement.
The Titanic wreckage sits at the bottom of the ocean nearly 13,000 feet below the surface southeast of Newfoundland, Canada.
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Here's a timeline of the missing sub's whereabouts
From CNN's Gabe Cohen
The Titan submersible went missing while it was on a tour of the wreckage of the Titanic. Here is the timeline that was set for the vessel , according to Miawpukek Maritime Horizon Services, which co-owns the Polar Prince, the support ship that helped launch Titan.
All times are in Atlantic Daylight Time, which is 1.5 hours ahead of Eastern Time:
Friday, June 16: The Polar Prince departs St. John’s, Newfoundland
Saturday, June 17: The Polar Prince arrives at the dive site
Sunday, June 18:
9 a.m.: The dive operations starts.
11:47 a.m.: The last communication between the vessel and surface staff of OceanGate, the group that was conducting the expedition, is recorded.
6:10 p.m.: This is the time the vessel was originally scheduled to resurface.
6:35 pm.: Authorities are notified and a response operation is initiated.
9 min ago
Friend of explorer on the missing vessel says he is "larger than life"
From CNN’s Paul P. Murphy and Laura Ly
A friend of Hamish Harding, one of the people missing onboard a Titanic expedition vessel, told CNN Tuesday that the explorer is “larger than life.”
“Hamish is larger than life. He lives exploration. He is an explorer to the core of his soul. He has been to the bottom of planet earth in the Mariana Trench…he’s even been in space. We circumnavigated the planet together…the north and south pole, and set the world speed record,” Jannicke Mikkelsen, a fellow explorer, said.
Mikkelsen said Harding would be “calm and collected” in an emergency and that his experience would have prepared him for any difficulties.
“He will work through the emergency procedures together with the crew. He is also an experienced submersible pilot …so he will be a valuable asset to the crew and helping motivate the crew as well if morale is low,” Mikkelsen said.
Mikkelsen said the vessel Harding is on is “a self-rescue vessel” with seven systems of unloading weight so it can ascend to the surface by itself if necessary.
“The only way it couldn't do that is if it was trapped — for instance, in the wreck of the Titanic or maybe as something as simple as a fishing net,” Mikkelsen said.
“My biggest concern is that Hamish and the rest of the crew aboard…are trapped in a metal can at the bottom of the ocean where the atmospheric pressure is 400 times that of here at ground level. There is no way we could possibly have a manned rescue at that sort of depth. My fear is that they cannot self-rescue and appear to the surface by themselves,” Mikkelsen said.
Action Aviation, the company owned by Harding, said Tuesday that both they and Harding’s family are “very grateful for all the kind messages of concern and support from our friends and colleagues,” according to a press release from the company.
“We are thankful for the continued efforts of the authorities and companies that have stepped in to aid in the rescue efforts. We put great faith and trust in their expertise,” Action Aviation said. “The team at Action Aviation are extremely proud of Hamish and we look forward to welcoming him home.”
52 min ago
Here's where the search for the missing sub is unfolding
A massive search operation is underway to find a submersible with five people on board that went missing on a trip to view the wreckage of the Titanic.
The Titanic wreckage sits at the bottom of the ocean nearly 13,000 feet below the surface southeast of Newfoundland, Canada.
Here's a look at a map of the area:
25 min ago
View some of the last images of the submersible and its crew before it went missing
A massive search operation is underway to find the submersible with five people on board that went missing on a trip to view the wreckage of the Titanic.
See some of the last pictures taken of the crew before they made their descent in the video below:
44 min ago
Search area for missing submersible expands to underwater, US Coast Guard commander says
From CNN's Kristina Sgueglia
While a lot of the search for the missing submersible has been focused on the surface of the water, the team now has underwater search capability on scene, said US Coast Guard First District Commander Rear Adm. John Mauger.
The Canadian Air Craft, USCG aircraft and New York Air National Guard aircraft have been flying patterns roughly the size of Connecticut on the surface of the water, he told CNN.
Mauger said he met with unified command last night which includes the US Navy, Canadian Coast Guard and the Canadian Armed Forces as well as Ocean Gate expedition, the company that owns and runs the missing submersible.
Ocean Gate, having the most familiarity with the site, and knowing where their submersible was operating, is helping to set priorities, he added.
“Our thoughts, as we continue on with search, are with the crew members and their families right now,” Mauger said, adding that teams are working hard to "make sure that we can locate that submersible."
1 hr 10 min ago
Deep-sea mapping company ready to join search efforts, but is being held up due to transport issues
From CNN’s Artemis Moshtaghian
Deep sea-mapping company Magellan, most famously known for its one-of-a-kind deep sea imagery of the Titanic , is fighting against the clock to try and get involved in the search and rescue efforts underway to locate the submersible that’s been missing in the Atlantic since Sunday—but a key transport issue holding them back.
Magellan Chair David Thompson told CNN that his team is familiar with the site of the wreck and received written notice from OceanGate Expeditions, the company running the expedition to the Titanic, to mobilize early Monday “by all means necessary — time is of the essence.”
CNN has reached out to OceanGate for comment.
But it needs an aircraft — specifically, a C-17 Globemaster III military cargo jet — with the ability to transport its deep-sea diving equipment, which is located in the UK, and deliver it to Canada in order to launch its operation.
“We know the wreck site, we know the location, and the equipment we are trying to get picked up is the equipment we used to do that scanning of the Titanic,” Thompson said.
Thompson said the US Air Force or UK Royal Air Force have not gotten back to Magellan letting them know if or when a plane can be procured to use to transport the equipment they need to Canada to embark on rescue efforts
Most of the equipment needed for the deep-sea dive is in Jersey, located in the Channel Islands off the coast of France, with some other equipment in Aberdeen, Thompson said.
“Through our connections locally in the islands here, we have good connections with the government, and we have good connections with the ports of Jersey, which is the airport and harbors: They are ready and willing to open the airport at a moment's notice relatively speaking, and that includes right now,” the Magellan chairman said.
There’s an element of serendipity at play in all this, as Thompson said that the equipment needed for this deep-sea expedition is normally not docked in the Channel Islands, where the company is based.
“It's normally on a vessel floating around the world, quite frankly. But by pure coincidence, we had it off whilst we were changing vessels and it just happened to be in Jersey at this point as opposed to on a boat in the middle of the sea,” he explained.
The quickest the Magellan team say they and their equipment could be at the site of the search and rescue operation underway in the Atlantic would be somewhere between 24 and 30 hours.
The missing 21-foot vessel has life support for up to 96 hours, according to the OceanGate website . US Coast Guard officials estimated Monday afternoon that they anticipate that the vessel has somewhere between 70 to 96 hours of emergency oxygen available for the passengers onboard.
CNN has reached out to the UK Royal Air Force as well as the US Air Force for comment.
1 hr 10 min ago
Colleague of submariner on missing vessel says the community is in shock
From CNN's Laura Ly
Paul-Henry Nargeolet poses for a photo at an exhibition dedicated to the Titanic, in Paris, France, in 2013. Joel Saget/AFP/Getty Images
A colleague of the French submariner onboard the missing Titanic dive vessel told CNN Tuesday that their community is “in shock.”
"Something we always think about as explorers and scientists … we've always known something like this could happen and now it's happened. But we're still pretty much in shock," said David Gallo, senior adviser for strategic initiatives at RMS Titanic Inc. "I hope it has a good ending."
Gallo called Paul-Henry Nargeolet, who is one of five people on board the missing vessel his "closest colleague" and someone who is "the best" at deep-sea searching.
As the search for the missing vessel continues, Gallo said "time is against us at this point."
The depth of water where the search is being conducted is "a whole different world," Gallo said, but added that "everything that can be done, is being done."
“You begin on the surface in a light blue, pretty color blue that we're familiar with. It takes two and a half hours to get to the bottom roughly, and you start to drift down slowly through that water column. You leave the blue behind. It gets medium blue, deep blue, dark blue, and then black for about two hours. And this is a place that’s been eternally cold and pressure is building,” Gallo said.
1 hr 46 min ago
Search area for submersible should see fair weather for the next few days
From CNN meteorologists Derek Van Dam and Monica Garrett
Weather in the search area for the submersible in the North Atlantic is generally good for the next several days. A weak cold front moved through the area on Monday, leading to some rain showers. As this front continues to move away from the area, chances of any showers will diminish.
The search area can expect partly cloudy skies, southwest winds of 20 to 30 knots (23-34 mph) and wave heights up to 9 feet on Tuesday. These conditions are average for the area this time of year. Both air and sea surface temperatures are in the 50s.
High pressure will build in the area, leading to clear skies and relatively calm conditions through the rest of the week.
Sunrise for the search area is just before 4 a.m. ET with sunset around 7 p.m. ET.
1 hr 52 min ago
US Coast Guard searched area "about the size of Connecticut" for missing sub overnight, commander says
From CNN’s Rebekah Riess
The US Coast Guard searched an area “about the size of Connecticut” overnight for the submersible gone missing with five people inside, US Coast Guard First District Commander Rear Admiral John Mauger said.
As the search continues Tuesday morning, the unified command team is expanding its capabilities to be able to search under the water as well, Mauger told ABC Tuesday. "We have a commercial vessel that's on scene now, that has remote operated vehicles, that will give us the ability to search under the water as well."
The unified command is also using a P-3 aircraft from the Canadian Armed Forces, which has been flying during the last 24 hours, dropping sonar buoys to listen for any sounds from the submersible.
"We also have vessels on scene now that [have] the capability to listen with their SONAR, and so if they are making sound, that's certainly one of the ways that we're going to use to locate,” Mauger added.
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Searc h mission continues for missing Titanic tour sub
By
Hele n Regan
,
Je ssie Yeung
, Adam Renton,
Lauren Said-Moorhouse and Ed Upright, CNN
Updated 9:38 a.m. ET, June 20, 2023
What we're covering
A massive search operation is underway to find a submersible with five people on board that went missing on a trip to view the wreckage of the Titanic.
The vessel lost contact 1 hour and 45 minutes into its dive Sunday, the US Coast Guard said. It has between 70 and 96 hours of life support, officials said.
Among those aboard are a British adventurer , a French diver and a Pakistani father and son , according to social media posts and a family statement.
The Titanic wreckage sits at the bottom of the ocean nearly 13,000 feet below the surface southeast of Newfoundland, Canada.
39 PostsSORT BY
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2 min ago
Here's a timeline of the missing sub's whereabouts
From CNN's Gabe Cohen
The Titan submersible went missing while it was on a tour of the wreckage of the Titanic. Here is the timeline that was set for the vessel , according to Miawpukek Maritime Horizon Services, which co-owns the Polar Prince, the support ship that helped launch Titan.
All times are in Atlantic Daylight Time, which is 1.5 hours ahead of Eastern Time:
Friday, June 16: The Polar Prince departs St. John’s, Newfoundland
Saturday, June 17: The Polar Prince arrives at the dive site
Sunday, June 18:
9 a.m.: The dive operations starts.
11:47 a.m.: The last communication between the vessel and surface staff of OceanGate, the group that was conducting the expedition, is recorded.
6:10 p.m.: This is the time the vessel was originally scheduled to resurface.
6:35 pm.: Authorities are notified and a response operation is initiated.
9 min ago
Friend of explorer on the missing vessel says he is "larger than life"
From CNN’s Paul P. Murphy and Laura Ly
A friend of Hamish Harding, one of the people missing onboard a Titanic expedition vessel, told CNN Tuesday that the explorer is “larger than life.”
“Hamish is larger than life. He lives exploration. He is an explorer to the core of his soul. He has been to the bottom of planet earth in the Mariana Trench…he’s even been in space. We circumnavigated the planet together…the north and south pole, and set the world speed record,” Jannicke Mikkelsen, a fellow explorer, said.
Mikkelsen said Harding would be “calm and collected” in an emergency and that his experience would have prepared him for any difficulties.
“He will work through the emergency procedures together with the crew. He is also an experienced submersible pilot …so he will be a valuable asset to the crew and helping motivate the crew as well if morale is low,” Mikkelsen said.
Mikkelsen said the vessel Harding is on is “a self-rescue vessel” with seven systems of unloading weight so it can ascend to the surface by itself if necessary.
“The only way it couldn't do that is if it was trapped — for instance, in the wreck of the Titanic or maybe as something as simple as a fishing net,” Mikkelsen said.
“My biggest concern is that Hamish and the rest of the crew aboard…are trapped in a metal can at the bottom of the ocean where the atmospheric pressure is 400 times that of here at ground level. There is no way we could possibly have a manned rescue at that sort of depth. My fear is that they cannot self-rescue and appear to the surface by themselves,” Mikkelsen said.
Action Aviation, the company owned by Harding, said Tuesday that both they and Harding’s family are “very grateful for all the kind messages of concern and support from our friends and colleagues,” according to a press release from the company.
“We are thankful for the continued efforts of the authorities and companies that have stepped in to aid in the rescue efforts. We put great faith and trust in their expertise,” Action Aviation said. “The team at Action Aviation are extremely proud of Hamish and we look forward to welcoming him home.”
52 min ago
Here's where the search for the missing sub is unfolding
A massive search operation is underway to find a submersible with five people on board that went missing on a trip to view the wreckage of the Titanic.
The Titanic wreckage sits at the bottom of the ocean nearly 13,000 feet below the surface southeast of Newfoundland, Canada.
Here's a look at a map of the area:
25 min ago
View some of the last images of the submersible and its crew before it went missing
A massive search operation is underway to find the submersible with five people on board that went missing on a trip to view the wreckage of the Titanic.
See some of the last pictures taken of the crew before they made their descent in the video below:
44 min ago
Search area for missing submersible expands to underwater, US Coast Guard commander says
From CNN's Kristina Sgueglia
While a lot of the search for the missing submersible has been focused on the surface of the water, the team now has underwater search capability on scene, said US Coast Guard First District Commander Rear Adm. John Mauger.
The Canadian Air Craft, USCG aircraft and New York Air National Guard aircraft have been flying patterns roughly the size of Connecticut on the surface of the water, he told CNN.
Mauger said he met with unified command last night which includes the US Navy, Canadian Coast Guard and the Canadian Armed Forces as well as Ocean Gate expedition, the company that owns and runs the missing submersible.
Ocean Gate, having the most familiarity with the site, and knowing where their submersible was operating, is helping to set priorities, he added.
“Our thoughts, as we continue on with search, are with the crew members and their families right now,” Mauger said, adding that teams are working hard to "make sure that we can locate that submersible."
1 hr 10 min ago
Deep-sea mapping company ready to join search efforts, but is being held up due to transport issues
From CNN’s Artemis Moshtaghian
Deep sea-mapping company Magellan, most famously known for its one-of-a-kind deep sea imagery of the Titanic , is fighting against the clock to try and get involved in the search and rescue efforts underway to locate the submersible that’s been missing in the Atlantic since Sunday—but a key transport issue holding them back.
Magellan Chair David Thompson told CNN that his team is familiar with the site of the wreck and received written notice from OceanGate Expeditions, the company running the expedition to the Titanic, to mobilize early Monday “by all means necessary — time is of the essence.”
CNN has reached out to OceanGate for comment.
But it needs an aircraft — specifically, a C-17 Globemaster III military cargo jet — with the ability to transport its deep-sea diving equipment, which is located in the UK, and deliver it to Canada in order to launch its operation.
“We know the wreck site, we know the location, and the equipment we are trying to get picked up is the equipment we used to do that scanning of the Titanic,” Thompson said.
Thompson said the US Air Force or UK Royal Air Force have not gotten back to Magellan letting them know if or when a plane can be procured to use to transport the equipment they need to Canada to embark on rescue efforts
Most of the equipment needed for the deep-sea dive is in Jersey, located in the Channel Islands off the coast of France, with some other equipment in Aberdeen, Thompson said.
“Through our connections locally in the islands here, we have good connections with the government, and we have good connections with the ports of Jersey, which is the airport and harbors: They are ready and willing to open the airport at a moment's notice relatively speaking, and that includes right now,” the Magellan chairman said.
There’s an element of serendipity at play in all this, as Thompson said that the equipment needed for this deep-sea expedition is normally not docked in the Channel Islands, where the company is based.
“It's normally on a vessel floating around the world, quite frankly. But by pure coincidence, we had it off whilst we were changing vessels and it just happened to be in Jersey at this point as opposed to on a boat in the middle of the sea,” he explained.
The quickest the Magellan team say they and their equipment could be at the site of the search and rescue operation underway in the Atlantic would be somewhere between 24 and 30 hours.
The missing 21-foot vessel has life support for up to 96 hours, according to the OceanGate website . US Coast Guard officials estimated Monday afternoon that they anticipate that the vessel has somewhere between 70 to 96 hours of emergency oxygen available for the passengers onboard.
CNN has reached out to the UK Royal Air Force as well as the US Air Force for comment.
1 hr 10 min ago
Colleague of submariner on missing vessel says the community is in shock
From CNN's Laura Ly
Paul-Henry Nargeolet poses for a photo at an exhibition dedicated to the Titanic, in Paris, France, in 2013. Joel Saget/AFP/Getty Images
A colleague of the French submariner onboard the missing Titanic dive vessel told CNN Tuesday that their community is “in shock.”
"Something we always think about as explorers and scientists … we've always known something like this could happen and now it's happened. But we're still pretty much in shock," said David Gallo, senior adviser for strategic initiatives at RMS Titanic Inc. "I hope it has a good ending."
Gallo called Paul-Henry Nargeolet, who is one of five people on board the missing vessel his "closest colleague" and someone who is "the best" at deep-sea searching.
As the search for the missing vessel continues, Gallo said "time is against us at this point."
The depth of water where the search is being conducted is "a whole different world," Gallo said, but added that "everything that can be done, is being done."
“You begin on the surface in a light blue, pretty color blue that we're familiar with. It takes two and a half hours to get to the bottom roughly, and you start to drift down slowly through that water column. You leave the blue behind. It gets medium blue, deep blue, dark blue, and then black for about two hours. And this is a place that’s been eternally cold and pressure is building,” Gallo said.
1 hr 46 min ago
Search area for submersible should see fair weather for the next few days
From CNN meteorologists Derek Van Dam and Monica Garrett
Weather in the search area for the submersible in the North Atlantic is generally good for the next several days. A weak cold front moved through the area on Monday, leading to some rain showers. As this front continues to move away from the area, chances of any showers will diminish.
The search area can expect partly cloudy skies, southwest winds of 20 to 30 knots (23-34 mph) and wave heights up to 9 feet on Tuesday. These conditions are average for the area this time of year. Both air and sea surface temperatures are in the 50s.
High pressure will build in the area, leading to clear skies and relatively calm conditions through the rest of the week.
Sunrise for the search area is just before 4 a.m. ET with sunset around 7 p.m. ET.
1 hr 52 min ago
US Coast Guard searched area "about the size of Connecticut" for missing sub overnight, commander says
From CNN’s Rebekah Riess
The US Coast Guard searched an area “about the size of Connecticut” overnight for the submersible gone missing with five people inside, US Coast Guard First District Commander Rear Admiral John Mauger said.
As the search continues Tuesday morning, the unified command team is expanding its capabilities to be able to search under the water as well, Mauger told ABC Tuesday. "We have a commercial vessel that's on scene now, that has remote operated vehicles, that will give us the ability to search under the water as well."
The unified command is also using a P-3 aircraft from the Canadian Armed Forces, which has been flying during the last 24 hours, dropping sonar buoys to listen for any sounds from the submersible.
"We also have vessels on scene now that [have] the capability to listen with their SONAR, and so if they are making sound, that's certainly one of the ways that we're going to use to locate,” Mauger added.
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