Titanic sub: Joe Biden watching search closely as vessel’s oxygen supply dwindles – live

Here’s a recap of today’s developments:

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• The crew of the submersible Titan, which went missing in the Atlantic during a dive to the wreck of the Titanic, have about 40 hours of breathable air remaining, if they are still alive, US Coast Guard officials said on Tuesday afternoon.

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• Rescue teams are racing against time to locate the 22ft-long (6.7-metre-long) vessel, which had a 96-hour supply of oxygen when contact was lost on Sunday at one hour and 45 minutes into its descent to the wreck site 12,500ft (3,800 metres) beneath the ocean’s surface, about 370 miles (600km) from the coast of Newfoundland.

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• A massive sea and air search that began on Sunday night for the vessel and five men aboard, and which has so far covered 7,600 sq miles of a remote area of the ocean, had “not yielded any results”, Capt Jamie Frederick also told reporters at a media briefing on Tuesday afternoon.

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• On Tuesday morning, military authorities said the search was expanding to under the water, using sonar and other hi-tech equipment, enhancing surface operations that had continued through the night.

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• The French president, Emmanuel Macron, ordered the dispatch of research ship Atalante to join the international search for the missing Titan sub, the French government confirmed. The ship is expected to arrive on site by Wednesday evening local time.

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• Five crew members are aboard the carbon fiber and titanium submersible Titan. They include Hamish Harding, 58, a British explorer and pilot who has previously taken a suborbital spaceflight; British Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood, 48; and his son Sulaiman, 19. The British Foreign Office has confirmed it is in contact with the families of three British nationals on the sub.

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• Also aboard are Paul Henri Nargeolet, a former French navy commander, deep diver and submersible pilot widely considered the leading authority on the Titanic wreck site, and Stockton Rush, the founder of OceanGate.

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• US President Joe Biden is “watching events closely” surrounding the missing submersible, the White House’s spokesperson John Kirby has said. It is understood that King Charles has asked to kept fully up to date on the situation regarding the missing submersible.

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• A former employee of Oceangate, the company that owns the missing sub and runs tourist expeditions of the Titanic wreck, voiced concerns about the safety of the sub as early as 2018, according to a report. Court documents obtained by The New Republic show the employee was concerned about “the potential danger to passengers of the Titan as the submersible reached extreme depths”.

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King Charles has asked to kept fully up to date on the situation regarding the missing submersible, Sky News understands.

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The king’s thoughts and prayers are with the Dawood family and all those involved in the attempted recovery operation, it says.

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US President Joe Biden is “watching events closely” surrounding the missing submersible, the White House’s spokesperson John Kirby has said.

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At a briefing, Kirby pointed to the ongoing search efforts by the US coast guard, Canadian officials and other agencies. The US navy is also on standby “should they be needed because they have some deep-water capabilities that the coast guard wouldn’t necessarily have”, he said.

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Kirby added:

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All of us, including the President express our thoughts to the crew on board, as well as to the no doubt worried family members back on shore.

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Coast guard officials say the crew of the missing submersible Titan have about 40 hours of breathable air left, if they are still alive.

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Captain Jamie Frederick was addressing reporters at a just-concluded lunchtime briefing in Boston on the third day of the search for the vessel and its five crew members that disappeared Sunday on a dive to the wreck of the Titanic, 12,500ft below the surface of the Atlantic.

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We know from the data that we were using as a starting point, [their available air] was 96 hours. We know at this point, we’re approximately about 40, 41 hours,” he said.

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He stressed that a “complex” search and rescue operation, so far covering 7,600 square miles, and involving coast guard and US navy aircraft and vessels, and resources from the Canadian military, was so far fruitless:

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The search efforts have focused on both surface, with C-130 aircraft searching by sight, and with radar and subsurface with p3 aircraft were able to drop monitor sonar buoys today, those search efforts have not yielded any results.

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A “unified command”, led by the coast guard, was set up Monday:

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This is a complex search effort, which requires multiple agencies with subject matter expertise and specialized equipment.

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While the US Coast Guard has assumed the role of search and rescue mission coordinator, we do not have all the necessary expertise and equipment required for a search of this nature. The unified command brings that expertise and additional capability together to maximize effort in solving this very complex problem.

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Capt Jamie Frederick is asked how many hours of oxygen is left on the Titan sub. He replies:

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We know from the data that we were using as a starting point was 96 hours. We know at this point, we’re approximately about 40, 41 hours.

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He reiterates that that estimate of 40 hours is based on the initial report of 96 hours.

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The US Coast Guard is giving a news conference to discuss the search efforts to locate the missing submersible.

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It’s shortly after midday on the east coast of the US and Canada as the frantic search continues by sea and air for the submersible that has been missing since it dived on Sunday towards the wreck of the Titanic, off Newfoundland. We’ll continue to bring you coverage as it happens.

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Here’s where things stand:

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• Last known pictures of the sub, Titan, have been released, taken on Sunday just before it dived into the North Atlantic, and released by Action Aviation, the company run by passenger Hamish Harding.

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• Titan, the tourist submersible missing with five people aboard, is designed to be piloted with a video-game controller and fitted with “off-the-shelf” components, CBS previously reported.

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• France will send a ship equipped with a deep-sea diving vessel to assist in the search for the Titan, the French education ministry has said.

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• The British Foreign Office has confirmed it is in contact with the families of three British nationals on the sub, Hamish Harding, Shahzada Dawood and his son Sulaiman Dawood, the BBC reports.

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• Authorities are expanding the search into deeper waters for the submersible, Rear Adm John Mauger, commander of the First Coast Guard District. They’ve been searching through the night.

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• UK prime minister Rishi Sunak’s thoughts are said to be with the families of those involved in the missing Titan submersible. The prime minister’s official spokesman also said that Sunak “clearly wants to pass on his thanks to those that are responding” to the situation.

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• Rescue teams are continuing the search for the Titan submersible that was reported missing on Sunday after diving towards the wreck of the passenger liner Titanic in the North Atlantic. Titan has five people aboard. The Titanic sank in 1912 after hitting an iceberg en route from England to the US, with more than 1,500 souls lost. The wreck was not found until the mid-1980s, almost 4,000m (13,000 ft) down in a deep part of the ocean.

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These pictures, taken on Sunday and released by Action Aviation, show the submersible Titan prepared for the dive into a remote area of the Atlantic Ocean.

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The US coast guard will hold a news conference at 1pm EST (1700 GMT) to discuss the search efforts to locate the missing submersible.

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The @uscg will be holding a press briefing for the Canadian research vessel Polar Prince missing submersible at 1pm EST.

View the press briefing below: https://t.co/Z4Ar73rxZY

The full press briefing will be posted to https://t.co/aZWnN3U74D once it concludes.

— USCGNortheast (@USCGNortheast) June 20, 2023

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The Titan is a research and survey submersible that can carry five people, usually a pilot and four “mission specialists” who can include archaeologists, marine biologists or anyone who can afford the experience as a tourist.

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Made of “titanium and filament wound carbon fibre”, the 6.7-metre (22ft) craft weighs 10,432kg (23,000lbs), equivalent to about six average-size cars, and is capable of diving to depths of 4,000 metres (13,120ft) “with a comfortable safety margin”, according to operator OceanGate. It uses four electric thrusters to move around, and has a battery of cameras, lights and scanners to explore its environment. OceanGate says Titan’s viewport is “the largest of any deep diving submersible” and that its technology provides an “unrivalled view” of the deep ocean.

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It uses Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite technology to communicate, though it is unclear if it was the cause of the loss of contact. OceanGate tweeted last week:

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Without any cell towers in the middle of the ocean, we are relying on @Starlink to provide the communications we require throughout this year’s 2023 Titanic expedition.

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It has a 96-hour bottled oxygen supply, as of roughly 6am Sunday local time, according to David Concannon, an adviser to trip operator OceanGate, which would in theory last until Thursday morning . However, that limit would be affected by the breathing rate of those inside the craft, especially if there are tourists onboard with limited diving experience.

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Titan, the tourist submersible that went missing while carrying five people to the Titanic wreck, was designed to be piloted with a video-game controller and fitted with “off-the-shelf” components.

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In a CBS News segment aired in November, OceanGate Expeditions took CBS correspondent David Pogue aboard the Titan. The trip had several starts and stops, attributed to bad weather and issues with communication, and the submersible even got lost for a few hours.

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Pogue said he “couldn’t help noticing how many pieces of this sub seemed improvised, with off-the-shelf components”. OceanGate Expeditions CEO Stockton Rush said the sub featured a light fixture from CamperWorld and a makeshift toilet with a plastic bottle. He said:

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We only have one button, that’s it. It should be like an elevator, it shouldn’t take a lot of skill.

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Rush brought out a Logitech game controller, saying that “we run the whole thing with this”. He reassured Pogue that it was safe, adding that his team had worked with Boeing, Nasa, and the University of Washington to create a vessel capable of withstanding deep-sea pressure. He said:

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Everything else can fail. Your thrusters can go, your lights can go. You’re still going to be safe.

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France will send a ship equipped with a deep-sea diving vessel to assist in the search for the tourist submersible that went missing while attempting to reach the wreck of the Titanic, the French education ministry has said.

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The ship, called the Atalante, is managed by the Ifremer research institute which acts under the ministry’s authority, Reuters reports.

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A statement by Ifremer said the ship was expected to arrive on site by Wednesday evening local time. It added:

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It carries the Victor 6000 autonomous robot, capable of descending to a depth of 6,000 metres, beyond the 3,800 metres of the wreck’s position.

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A French government source added that a French national was among those on board the vessel. The family of Paul-Henri Nargeolet have reportedly confirmed that he was aboard the vessel.

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The UK’s Foreign Office has confirmed it is in contact with the families of three British nationals on the submersible that went missing during a voyage to the Titanic shipwreck.

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Among those on board the submersible is the British billionaire explorer Hamish Harding, the chair of the private plane firm Action Aviation, which said he was one of the mission specialists on the OceanGate Expeditions vessel.

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The Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his son Sulaiman Dawood, who are also on board the sub, are British citizens, the BBC has reported, citing a spokesperson for the Dawood family.

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In a statement, the Foreign Office said:

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We are in contact with the families of three British nationals following a submersible going missing off the coast of North America and are in touch with the local authorities.

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The UK’s foreign secretary, James Cleverly, at a joint press conference with his US counterpart, Antony Blinken, said the thoughts of the British government were with “those individuals who are currently in the submersible in the North Atlantic”.

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Cleverly said:

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We wish them all the luck, and of course we hope that they will be swiftly found and returned to their loved ones.

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Authorities are expanding the search into deeper waters for the submersible, Rear Adm John Mauger, commander of the First Coast Guard District.

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Speaking to CNN, Mauger said:

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As we continue on with this search… we’ve been working through the night with a broad group of partners to bring all capabilities to bear looking on both the surface and now expanding to a subsurface in the area.

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The UK prime minister Rishi Sunak’s thoughts are said to be with the families of those involved in the missing Titan submersible.

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The prime minister’s official spokesman said: “The families involved will be deeply concerned and his thoughts are with them and the Foreign Office is providing support.”

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He said that the prime minister “clearly wants to pass on his thanks to those that are responding” to the situation.

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Hamish Harding, 58, is one of the five missing with the OceanGate Expeditions vessel, which was reported overdue on Sunday evening about 435 miles south of St John’s, Newfoundland.

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Harding is the chair of the private plane firm Action Aviation. His wife is called Linda, and he has two sons named Rory and Giles, as well as a stepdaughter named Lauren and a stepson, Brian Szasz.

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As a student, he left Cambridge with a degree in natural sciences and chemical engineering.

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Harding is an aviator, holding an airline transport pilot’s licence and business jet type ratings, including the Gulfstream G650. He is also a skydiver, was inducted into the Living Legends of Aviation in 2022, and is a trustee of the Explorers Club.

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He also previously worked with the Antarctic VIP tourism company White Desert to introduce the first regular business jet service to Antarctica.

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Harding has made many trips to the south pole and, in 2016, accompanied Buzz Aldrin, who became the oldest person to reach the south pole at 86. He also went into space last year with Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin company.

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Harding is the current holder of three Guinness world records, relating to his work as an adventurer. In 2019, he was commended for the fastest circumnavigation of the Earth via both poles.

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As part of a crew of eight astronauts and aviators in a Qatar executive Gulfstream G650ER ultra-long-range business jet, Harding led the mission to mark the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. He achieved the feat in 46 hours, 40 minutes and 22 seconds.

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In 2021, he achieved the greatest distance covered at full ocean depth and the greatest duration spent at full ocean depth.

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Alongside Victor Vescovo, Harding dove in a two-man submarine to the lowest point in the world’s oceans, the deepest point of the Mariana Trench, the Challenger Deep – a depth of about 36,000ft.

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It is too early to say what has happened but experts have offered several of the most likely scenarios, from becoming tangled in wreckage of the Titanic, to a power failure or an issue with the sub’s communications system.

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The wreckage of the Titanic, which lies about 3,800 metres (12,500ft) down on the ocean floor is surrounded by debris from the disaster more than a century ago.

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“There are parts of it all over the place. It’s dangerous,” said Frank Owen OAM, a retired Royal Australian Navy official and submarine escape and rescue project director.

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Contact was lost one hour 45 minutes into the Titan’s trip, suggesting the crew may have been close to, or at, the bottom, says Owen. The Titan has a maximum speed of three knots, but would be slower the deeper it goes.

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In the case of becoming tangled, or a power or communications failure, the Titan would be equipped with drop weights, which can be released in an emergency, creating enough buoyancy to take it to the surface. The Titan has an array of signals, lighting, reflectors and other equipment it can use once on the surface to attract attention.

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Another scenario is that there has been a leak in the pressure hull, in which case the prognosis is not good, said Alistair Greig, a professor of marine engineering at University College London.

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“If it has gone down to the seabed and can’t get back up under its own power, options are very limited,” Greig said. “While the submersible might still be intact, if it is beyond the continental shelf, there are very few vessels that can get that deep, and certainly not divers.”

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Chris Parry, a retired rear admiral with the British Royal Navy, told Sky News a seabed rescue was “a very difficult operation”.

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“The actual nature of the seabed is very undulating. Titanic herself lies in a trench. There’s lots of debris around. So trying to differentiate with sonar in particular and trying to target the area you want to search in with another submersible is going to be very difficult indeed.”

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Welcome to the Guardian’s live coverage of the search for the submersible vessel Titan that went missing during a voyage to the Titanic shipwreck.

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Rescue teams are continuing the search for Titan which went missing with British billionaire Hamish Harding among the five people aboard.

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Harding, is the chair of private plane firm Action Aviation, which said he is one of the mission specialists on the five-person OceanGate Expeditions vessel reported overdue on Sunday evening about 435 miles south of St John’s, Newfoundland.

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Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his son Sulaiman Dawood have been named as two of the other people on the submersible in a family statement.

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The other two passengers have been widely reported as being French explorer Paul-Henry Nargeolet and OceanGate chief executive and founder Stockton Rush.

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It is understood there were 96 hours – four days – worth of oxygen supply on board which would have started on Sunday morning.

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We’ll provide updates on the search when they are available.

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The Titan submersible is not classed according to normal industry standards, a 2019 post on owner Oceangate’s website says. The company’s justification for operating the submersible despite falling outside regular industry safety regulations is “innovation”.

“When OceanGate was founded the goal was to pursue the highest reasonable level of innovation in the design and operation of manned submersibles. By definition, innovation is outside of an already accepted system. However, this does not mean that OceanGate does [not] meet standards where they apply, but it does mean that innovation often falls outside of the existing industry paradigm,” the post on the website reads.

According to Lloyd’s Register, a company that specializes in engineering and technology for the maritime industry, classification for submersibles is “conditional upon strict observation of the restrictions imposed on service operation, and upon the proper maintenance of the submersible or chamber and identified ancillary equipment which is required to comply with the Rules.”

The New York air national guard is now assisting with search and rescue efforts, Governor Kathy Hochul announced on Tuesday afternoon.

Hochul said: “The women and men of New York’s air national guard are always ready to lend a helping hand. I commend the members of the 106th rescue wing for their efforts to assist the US Coast Guard in this search and rescue operation.”

The 106th Rescue Wing, based in Westhampton Beach on Long Island, is now part of the joint operation in the Atlantic to locate the missing sub before oxygen runs out. As of Tuesday afternoon, the coast guard estimated there were 40 hours of breathable air.

The 106th flies fixed-wing search and rescue aircraft and helicopters, and has a unit of pararescue jumpers trained for sea and land. On Monday afternoon, the rescue wing launched a search and rescue aircraft of 13 airmen and a team of pararescue jumpers at the request of the US Coast Guard.

More efforts continue today.

The search for the missing Titan sub is now more of an underwater operation, US Coast Guard rear admiral John Mauger told CNN this afternoon. Up until this point, search and rescue operations were primarily on the surface of the water and in the air.

Mauger told the network: “Our thoughts as we continue on with this search are with the crew members and their family members right now. If there’s any chance, we’re going to work as hard as we can to make sure we locate that submersible.”

He continued: “We’ve been working through the night with a broad group of partners to bring all capabilities to bear, looking on both the surface and now expanding to a sub-surface search in the area.”

The expanded search includes four additional vessels and five remotely operated vehicles (ROVs), which have the capability to go underwater, although it’s not immediately clear to what depth, or other details of how those will be used.

Here’s a recap of today’s developments:

• The crew of the submersible Titan, which went missing in the Atlantic during a dive to the wreck of the Titanic, have about 40 hours of breathable air remaining, if they are still alive, US Coast Guard officials said on Tuesday afternoon.

• Rescue teams are racing against time to locate the 22ft-long (6.7-metre-long) vessel, which had a 96-hour supply of oxygen when contact was lost on Sunday at one hour and 45 minutes into its descent to the wreck site 12,500ft (3,800 metres) beneath the ocean’s surface, about 370 miles (600km) from the coast of Newfoundland.

• A massive sea and air search that began on Sunday night for the vessel and five men aboard, and which has so far covered 7,600 sq miles of a remote area of the ocean, had “not yielded any results”, Capt Jamie Frederick also told reporters at a media briefing on Tuesday afternoon.

• On Tuesday morning, military authorities said the search was expanding to under the water, using sonar and other hi-tech equipment, enhancing surface operations that had continued through the night.

• The French president, Emmanuel Macron, ordered the dispatch of research ship Atalante to join the international search for the missing Titan sub, the French government confirmed. The ship is expected to arrive on site by Wednesday evening local time.

• Five crew members are aboard the carbon fiber and titanium submersible Titan. They include Hamish Harding, 58, a British explorer and pilot who has previously taken a suborbital spaceflight; British Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood, 48; and his son Sulaiman, 19. The British Foreign Office has confirmed it is in contact with the families of three British nationals on the sub.

• Also aboard are Paul Henri Nargeolet, a former French navy commander, deep diver and submersible pilot widely considered the leading authority on the Titanic wreck site, and Stockton Rush, the founder of OceanGate.

• US President Joe Biden is “watching events closely” surrounding the missing submersible, the White House’s spokesperson John Kirby has said. It is understood that King Charles has asked to kept fully up to date on the situation regarding the missing submersible.

• A former employee of Oceangate, the company that owns the missing sub and runs tourist expeditions of the Titanic wreck, voiced concerns about the safety of the sub as early as 2018, according to a report. Court documents obtained by The New Republic show the employee was concerned about “the potential danger to passengers of the Titan as the submersible reached extreme depths”.

King Charles has asked to kept fully up to date on the situation regarding the missing submersible, Sky News understands.

The king’s thoughts and prayers are with the Dawood family and all those involved in the attempted recovery operation, it says.

The US navy is sending a Flyaway Deep Ocean Salvage System (FADOSS), as well as subject matter experts, to assist in the search of the submersible that went missing while trying to travel to the wreck of the Titanic, a US navy spokesperson has said.

A statement by the US navy said the FADOSS is a “motion compensated lift system designed to provide reliable deep ocean lifting capacity for the recovery of large, bulky, and heavy undersea objects such as aircraft or small vessels”.

Both the salvage system and subject experts are expected to arrive at St John’s, Newfoundland, Canada, tonight.

US President Joe Biden is “watching events closely” surrounding the missing submersible, the White House’s spokesperson John Kirby has said.

At a briefing, Kirby pointed to the ongoing search efforts by the US coast guard, Canadian officials and other agencies. The US navy is also on standby “should they be needed because they have some deep-water capabilities that the coast guard wouldn’t necessarily have”, he said.

Kirby added:

All of us, including the President express our thoughts to the crew on board, as well as to the no doubt worried family members back on shore.

A former employee of Oceangate, the company that owns the missing sub and runs tourist expeditions of the Titanic wreck, voiced concerns about the safety of the sub as early as 2018, according to a report.

Court documents obtained by The New Republic show the employee, David Lochridge, was concerned about “the potential danger to passengers of the Titan as the submersible reached extreme depths”.

Lochridge was reportedly OceanGate’s director of marine operations at the time, “responsible for the safety of all crew and clients”. The documents allege that he was wrongfully terminated after he raised safety complaints over the sub, and claim that OceanGate terminated his employment “in efforts to silence Lochridge and to avoid addressing the safety and quality control issues”.

The documents allege that Lochridge “identified numerous issues that posed serious safety concerns, and offered corrective action and recommendations for each”. He was particularly concerned about “non-destructive testing performed on the hull of the Titan”, they say.

The court filings also allege:

The paying passengers would not be aware, and would not be informed, of this experimental design, the lack of non-destructive testing of the hull, or that hazardous flammable materials were being used within the submersible.

The case between Lochridge and OceanGate was settled out of court in November 2018.

Promotional materials for the Titan submersible reveal the tight quarters the five passengers are currently in.

NBC News’ Ben Goggin has shared the diagram of the ship, which shows that only one of the passengers is able to fully extend their legs at one time.

Stockton Rush, the chief executive of OceanGate Expeditions, was warned by leaders in the submersible vehicle industry that the “company’s current ‘experimental’ approach” could result in problems “from minor to catastrophic”.

The warning came in a 2018 letter to Rush, obtained by the New York Times. A reporter from the Times visited OceanGate’s main office, based in Everett, Washington, where he said “the entrance door was locked, and nobody responded to knocking”.