Titanic sub search: ‘debris field’ found within search area by diving robot, says US Coast Guard – live

The US Coast Guard have said a debris field was discovered within the search area by a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) near the Titanic wreck.

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Experts within the unified command are evaluating the information, the Coast Guard said in a tweet.

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A debris field was discovered within the search area by an ROV near the Titanic. Experts within the unified command are evaluating the information. 1/2

— USCGNortheast (@USCGNortheast) June 22, 2023

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The family of British billionaire Hamish Harding, who is on board the missing Titan, has accused OceanGate of having taken “far too long” to report the sub’s disappearance.

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Communications between the submersible and the surface vessel, Polar Prince, were lost at about 9.45am local time on Sunday, 1 hour and 45 minutes after starting its descent to the Titanic wreck. But it was not until 5.40pm local time that the US Coast Guard was made aware.

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Kathleen Cosnett, a cousin of Harding, told the Telegraph:

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It’s very frightening. [It] took so long for them to get going to rescue [them], it’s far too long. I would have thought three hours would be the bare minimum.

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The co-founder of OceanGate, the company that operates the missing sub, has broken his silence to say he believes the five crew members on board Titan have “longer than what most people think”.

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Guillermo Söhnlein, who founded OceanGate with Stockton Rush, one of the passengers aboard the Titan, said he last spoke to Rush a couple of weeks before the expedition’s launch.

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In a statement to Insider, Sohnlein, who is no longer involved with the company but remains a minority shareholder, said:

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Today will be a critical day in this search and rescue mission, as the sub’s life support supplies are starting to run low.

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I’m certain that Stockton and the rest of the crew realized days ago that the best thing they can do to ensure their rescue is to extend the limits of those supplies by relaxing as much as possible. I firmly believe that the time window available for their rescue is longer than what most people think. I continue to hold out hope for my friend and the rest of the crew.

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He said he encouraged everyone to “remain hopeful” for getting the missing sub back safely and that he continued to “hold out hope” for his friend and the rest of the crew.

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Rescue teams are continuing to carry out “an active search and rescue operation” for the missing Titan submersible, US Coast Guard officials said.

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Rear Adm John Mauger, speaking to Sky News, said teams were making the most of the “favourable” weather conditions. He said:

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While we’re cognizant of the time, and we’ve factored in a lot of data and information into the search, this is still an active search and rescue at this point.

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We’re using the equipment that we have on at the bottom of the ROVS to expand our search capabilities.

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Asked when rescuers might consider the situation is “beyond all hope”, Mauger said “there is a time and place for that discussion” but that the focus of the unified command team was “on using the capability that we have now on site to locate the people and the submersible”.

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Rear Admiral John Mauger, First District Commander for the US Coast Guard, tells @JayneSeckerSky that they are grateful for all assistance in the search for the missing Titan sub

“We remain hopeful”https://t.co/4560YhOK6P

📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube pic.twitter.com/7GmvloNX6E

— Sky News (@SkyNews) June 22, 2023

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Suleman Dawood, one of the five men missing on the submersible dive to visit the Titanic, has been identified as a university student in Glasgow.

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The University of Strathclyde confirmed that Dawood, 19, was one of its students with Strathclyde Business School, and had just completed his first year.

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“We are deeply concerned about Suleman, his father and the others involved in this incident,” a university spokesperson said.

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Our thoughts are with their families and loved ones and we continue to hope for a positive outcome.

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Dawood is the son of Shahzada Dawood, 48, a billionaire businessman who lives in Surbiton, south-west London, who is originally from Pakistan but now has British citizenship.

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Suleman Dawood has a sister, Alina, and his mother has been named as Christine. The family had been living in Canada for several weeks before the dive.

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Earlier this week a family statement described Suleman as a “big fan of science fiction literature and learning new things”, who was also keen on Rubik’s cubes and playing volleyball.

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He had recently graduated from ACS International School Cobham in Surrey.

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Here’s a look at the main developments of the morning:

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• Two remotely operated vehicles have been deployed as part of the search effort

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• According to US coast guard estimates, Titan’s 96 hours of breathable oxygen supplies are thought to be exhausted – although these are just estimates and much will depend on measure the passengers have taken to conserve air

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• Experts say it’s still unclear whether the submersible is on the surface on the seabed, and warn “weeks of intense survey” may be required to locate it

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• A British submariner and equipment from a UK firm will help the search for the missing submersible

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According to the US Coast Guard, two remotely operated vehicles have just been deployed in the search effort

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The French vessel L’Atalante has just deployed their ROV. #Titanic

— USCGNortheast (@USCGNortheast) June 22, 2023

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The Canadian vessel Horizon Arctic has deployed an ROV that has reached the sea floor and began its search for the missing sub. #Titanic

— USCGNortheast (@USCGNortheast) June 22, 2023

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Although calculations suggest Titan’s 96-hour supply of breathable air is about to run out, experts have emphasised that it is an imprecise estimate and could be extended if passengers have taken measures to conserve breathable air. It is also not known if they are still alive after the sub disappeared on Sunday morning.

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Frank Owen, a submarine search-and-rescue expert, said the oxygen supply figure was a useful “target” for searchers but is only based on a “nominal amount of consumption”.

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Owen said the diver on board the Titan was likely to be advising passengers to “do anything to reduce your metabolic levels so that you can actually extend this”.

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Rescuers have rushed more ships and vessels to the site of the disappearance, hoping underwater sounds they detected for a second straight day might help narrow their search in the urgent, international mission.

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But many obstacles still remain: from pinpointing the vessel’s location, to reaching it with rescue equipment, to bringing it to the surface – assuming it’s still intact. And all that has to happen before the passengers’ oxygen supply runs out. (Via AP)

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I’ve just been listening in to a very useful briefing from the Science Media Centre, in which the speakers were Prof Alistair Greig, professor of marine engineering at University College London, Dr Jamie Pringle, reader in Forensic Geosciences at Keele University and, Dr Rob Larter, a marine geophysicist with the British Antarctic Survey.

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• Asked about the huge size of the search area, Larter said: “We’ve all seen the reports of these sounds that have been detected, but the fact that the search areas still seems to be so large would seem to indicate that nobody thinks they have confidently been able to locate where those sounds are coming from.”

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Given the lack of information from the seabed, said Greig, “I’d say we’re still pretty much where we were on Monday really, in terms of the search I guess”.

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• Asked about how long it could take to bring the sub to the surface were it found, Greig said: “I don’t know how long it would take but in a normal operating scenario, I think it takes about two hours to get down to depth … and about two hours again [to come up].”

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• Asked about his assessment of the chances of a successful rescue mission, Greig said: “I think the key thing is that they can find it … but it’s not going to be instantaneous; every step takes time – this is the problem. And we’re running out of time.”

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Pringle said: “There’s always hope with these things but you know about the ‘golden first 24 hours’ – and we’re well past that stage. There’s always a chance – it’s never zero – but I think obviously in the long run, the longer the time that elapses, the lower the chances of success. That’s with anything from earthquake survival to searches. When it goes from a rescue to a recovery, I guess the coastguards will make that choice. But that will happen at some point.”

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Larter said: “It’s just a desperate situation. It’s kind of unimaginable if people are alive, trapped in a submersible with oxygen supplies running down. It doesn’t bear thinking about. An objective assessment of where things are at the moment? It doesn’t look good. But I think as Jamie said, you have to try to stay optimistic for as long as possible.”

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• Asked how long it could take to find Titan, Larter said: “How long is a piece of string? To find an object of this size in 3,800-metre water depth, it potentially could take weeks of intense survey. It very much depends on how tightly the area that has to be searched is defined.”

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• Asked whether the disappearance of Titan could spell the end of deep sea tourism, Larter said: “I think when people look at it afterwards, this will no doubt trigger an investigation and I think this may prove to be a key moment in thinking about how such activities are regulated in the future. It’s clear from the reports I’ve read that there is a lack of regulation governing what people can put in the water.”

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Greig added: “I think there are two issues here: there’s the regulation issue we’ve just heard about but there’s also the potential customer base – it may put people off wanting to pay to go on these trips.”

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• Asked if we were any closer to knowing what had gone wrong, Greig said: “I think the only thing we know that went wrong is that they lost communications. Beyond that, we don’t know. We’re not even sure yet whether it’s on the surface or the seabed, which is complicating the search.”

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Hello and welcome to the Guardian’s live coverage of the search for the submersible vessel Titan that went missing during a voyage to the wreck of the Titanic with five people onboard.

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The search for the OceanGate Expeditions tourist submersible is entering its fourth day after the vessel was reported overdue on Sunday evening about 435 miles south of St John’s, Newfoundland.

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Officials have still said they are hopeful of a rescue despite growing concerns the oxygen supply on board is becoming dangerously low. Equipment from the US, Canada, the UK and France has been brought in to help find the vessel.

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Experts have said the search remains a technically challenging task because of the potential for bad weather and the difficulty in locating a small vessel in a vast ocean. So far the search has concentrated around an area where sounds were detected repeating at 30-minute intervals but authorities have said they have been unable to confirm the origin of these sounds.

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As of Wednesday night local time remotely operated deep-sea vehicles (ROV), capable of operating down to depths of 6km, were heading to the area to join the search and the US Navy is also sending a heavy-lifting system called Fadoss.

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It is understood the vessel had enough oxygen on board for 96 hours, though the true extent of its supply depends on several various including whether the vessel remains powered, the activity of those on board and whether they have remained calm and are able to control their breathing.

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Those onboard Titan are believed to be British billionaire Hamish Harding, 58; Pakistani-born businessman Shahzada Dawood, 48, with his 19-year-old son Suleman, who are both British citizens; French explorer Paul-Henri Nargeolet, 77; and Stockton Rush, founder and CEO of OceanGate Expeditions.

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We’ll bring you updates on the search as they happen.

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A rescue expert has said US Coast Guard officials would not “use phrases like debris field unless there’s no chance of recovery of the men alive”.

David Mearns, who is a friend of two of the men aboard the missing sub – British billionaire Hamish Harding and French sub pilot Paul-Henri Nargeolet, told Sky News:

A debris field implies there’s a break up of the submersible and at that depth, because we know that they lost communications at around 3,300m… so that really indicates what is the worst case scenario which is a catastrophic failure, an implosion.

“The only saving grace” if it was the case of an implosion is that “it would have been immediate”, he added.

Literally in milliseconds, and the men would have had no idea what was happening.

A friend of Stockton Rush, who is on board the missing Titan sub, said the OceanGate CEO told him the weather was “very, very bad” in an email the day before the vessel went missing.

Arthur Loibl, 60, said he remained friends with Rush, 61, and another passenger on the missing sub, 77-year-old retired French navy commander Paul-Henri Nargeolet, after he himself travelled on the Titan in 2021.

Loibl told the Washington Post that he had just exchanged emails with Rush on Saturday about possibly seeing each other next year and how the expedition was going.

He said that the weather conditions were very, very bad.

He added that Rush had mentioned that the rough seasonal weather in Newfoundland had worsened conditions for the dives.

Loibl described his experience on a 2021 dive to the Titanic as “a kamikaze operation”. The lights were turned off during the 2.5-hour journey to and from the wreckage site, with a fluorescent glow stick providing the only light, he said.

Nobody told you what happened if the sub got lost because you’re not thinking of this.

He added that he agreed with some experts who have called for trips to the Titanic wreck to stop.

This way of diving down there has to be stopped forever.

Two Royal Air Force (RAF) plans have taken off to fly to St John’s in Canada, carrying specialist equipment and personnel to assist with the international search and rescue effort for the missing Titan submersible.

The C-17 Globemaster and A400M Atlas aircraft departed RAF Lossiemouth in north-east Scotland on Thursday.

The C-17 aircraft will transport “specialist commercial equipment” provided by Channel Islands-based deep water specialists Magellan, a No 10 spokesperson has confirmed.

Sources within the UK’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) said the RAF received a request overnight for assistance with movement of additional commercial equipment, PA news reported.

The US Coast Guard will hold a press briefing at 3pm local time (8pm UK time) to share its latest findings from the search operation for the Titan sub.

It comes as the Coast Guard said a debris field was discovered within the search area by a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) near the Titanic wreck. Experts within the unified command were evaluating the information, the Coast Guard said.

The US Coast Guard have said a debris field was discovered within the search area by a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) near the Titanic wreck.

Experts within the unified command are evaluating the information, the Coast Guard said in a tweet.

A clip by the ship-tracker MarineTraffic shows the movement of vessels involved in the search and rescue operation of the missing Titan sub in the North Atlantic from Tuesday to Thursday.

A marine geologist has likened the remotely operated vehicles’ (ROV) search for the missing Titan sub to “walking around a really big dark ballroom with a flashlight”.

Dr Rob Larter, from the British Antarctic Survey, said the two ROVs sent to the search site will only be able to see around five or 10 metres at a time.

The ROVs “only move relatively slowly, just a couple of miles an hour”, he told Sky News. He said:

Because they’re only relying on their own their own satellites, even if the visibility of the water is relatively good… you’re only going to see five or 10 metres at a time.

It really is like walking around a really big dark ballroom with a flashlight.

A Canadian Navy ship carrying a medical team specialising in dive medicine has arrived on scene, according to a Canadian armed forces official.

The ship, which is also carrying a hyperbaric recompression chamber that can hold as many as six people, reached the area of the search operation at 9am local time on Thursday morning, CNN reported, citing an official from the Joint Rescue Coordination Centre Halifax of the Canadian Armed Forces.

The family of British billionaire Hamish Harding, who is on board the missing Titan, has accused OceanGate of having taken “far too long” to report the sub’s disappearance.

Communications between the submersible and the surface vessel, Polar Prince, were lost at about 9.45am local time on Sunday, 1 hour and 45 minutes after starting its descent to the Titanic wreck. But it was not until 5.40pm local time that the US Coast Guard was made aware.

Kathleen Cosnett, a cousin of Harding, told the Telegraph:

It’s very frightening. [It] took so long for them to get going to rescue [them], it’s far too long. I would have thought three hours would be the bare minimum.

Here are some pictures from the newswires of the headquarters of OceanGate, the company behind the missing Titan sub, in Everett, Washington.

The co-founder of OceanGate, the company that operates the missing sub, has broken his silence to say he believes the five crew members on board Titan have “longer than what most people think”.

Guillermo Söhnlein, who founded OceanGate with Stockton Rush, one of the passengers aboard the Titan, said he last spoke to Rush a couple of weeks before the expedition’s launch.

In a statement to Insider, Sohnlein, 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 sub’s life support supplies are starting to run low.

I’m certain that Stockton and the rest of the crew realized days ago that the best thing they can do to ensure their rescue is to extend the limits of those supplies by relaxing as much as possible. I firmly believe that the time window available for their rescue is longer than what most people think. I continue to hold out hope for my friend and the rest of the crew.

He said he encouraged everyone to “remain hopeful” for getting the missing sub back safely and that he continued to “hold out hope” for his friend and the rest of the crew.