Bisnis.comJAKARTA – An international team is working to find and rescue a tourist submarine that went missing in the North Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Canada on June 18 during an underwater tour to view the wreck of the Titanic.
The team includes US, Canadian and French authorities who will continue to work with planes, boats and other equipment.
As time ticks away before all five people on board will run out of oxygen by Thursday morning, the US Coast Guard said Wednesday that a Canadian aircraft detected unidentified sounds in the search area the same day.
“As for the noises in particular, we don’t know what they are,” said Captain Jamie Frederick of the US First Coast Guard District.
A Canadian aircraft also heard voices in the area on Tuesday (6/20).
The Titan submarine operated by US company Open Gate Inc went missing nearly two hours after entering the sea on Sunday morning, the coast guard said.
Stockton Rush, the company’s CEO also piloted the vessel, while the other four passengers were a British businessman, a French marine surveyor and an Anglo-Pakistani businessman and his son, according to US media.
The five are heading for a point about 700 kilometers south of St John on the island of Newfoundland, Canada, and at a depth of about 3,800 meters where the luxury wreck of the Titanic lies.
The Titanic sank in April 1912 after hitting an iceberg and killing up to 1,500 people.
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