Did Titan run out of oxygen? Two robots scour the seabed and some faith remains

Situation Titanium submersible This is already extremely serious, since this Thursday, June 22, the authorities determined that the oxygen supply of the crew members would run out. In fact, the likelihood that you have already run out of oxygen is high.

“We know about the time that’s leftbut it’s still a search and rescue mission,” the Coast Guard said.

Rescue teams moved into the seabed of two robots in a new attempt find him. One of them comes from the Canadian ship Horizon Arctic, and the other is a ROV Victor 6000 provided by France aboard the ship El Atalante.

OceanGate co-founder still believes in salvation

The co-founder of OceanGate, the company that manages the missing submarine, said he believes the five crew members aboard the Titan have “more time than most people think.”

Guillermo Sonlein, who co-founded OceanGate with Stockton Rush, one of Titan’s passengers, said he last spoke to Rush a couple of weeks before the expedition’s launch. In a statement to Insider, Sonlein, who is no longer involved with the company but remains a minority shareholder, said “Today will be a critical day in this search and rescue mission as the submarine’s life support supplies begin to run low. I’m sure Stockton and the rest of the crew realized a few days ago that the best thing they could do to ensure their own safety was to expand the boundaries of these supplies by being as free as possible. I firmly believe that the window of time available for your salvation is greater than most people realize. I continue to have high hopes for my friend and the rest of the team.”

He said he urged everyone to “keep hope” that the missing sub will be safely recovered and that he continues to “hope” for his friend and the rest of the crew.

Dr. Richard Moon, professor of anesthesiology at Duke University, said that despite the extreme conditions, those aboard the OceanGate expeditionary submersible can increase the amount of oxygen available after their tank runs out by staying calm and as little as possible. moving.

“The actual amount of time they have is unpredictable, but it’s probably less than 24 hours after the last oxygen in the tank runs out,” Moon, director of the Duke Center for Hyperbaric Medicine and Environmental Physiology, told ABC News.