Emergency services have been searching for the missing submersible titanium in the Atlantic, a sign of life from the inmates may have been heard. Search teams picked up a type of banging every 30 minutes Tuesday in the area where the sub is suspected to be, the US government said in an internal memo. from which the broadcaster CNN and the magazine Rolling Stone quote. Later, after additional sonars were deployed, the knocking could still be heard, it said. According to the memo, however, it was unclear exactly when and for how long the noise was heard.
In an update that was sent on Tuesday evening, there should be talk of other noises, which, according to CNN, were no longer described as “knocking”. The acoustic sounds indicated that there was still hope for survivors, it said. The The US Coast Guard also announcedthat a Canadian search plane had received “underwater noise”. Diving robots have been moved to the area to investigate the origin of the noise. At first this was unsuccessful.
The oxygen will last until about Thursday noon
The 6.70 meter small and 10.4 ton vehicle was on the way to the wreck titanic and has been missing since Sunday morning. According to estimates by the authorities, the oxygen should only last until Thursday noon (CEST) – at 5 a.m. on Wednesday it was about 30 hours.
There are five people on board: the French explorer Paul-Henri Nargeolet, the British adventurer Hamish Harding and the British-Pakistani business consultant Shahzada Dawood and his 19-year-old son Suleman. Captain was the head of the operating company, Stockton Rush.
A man who led the expedition to titanic two years ago as a tourist, in retrospect calls the dive a “suicide commando”. in one Mirror-Interview describes the Lower Bavarian entrepreneur Arthur Loibl the poor condition of the submersible: there were problems with the batteries, repairs were necessary, a dive had to be stopped at a depth of 1600 meters.
Also the situation on board the titanium According to Loibl, it should be extremely tense: “It’s a very tight space, there are no chairs, there’s nothing in it. There are five of you sitting on the floor, so close together that your legs sometimes cross. You shouldn’t be afraid of contact. Get up or kneeling is not possible.” And because electricity had to be saved back then, he assumes that the passengers are sitting in the dark.
The search area is huge – according to the coast guard, almost 26 square kilometers were searched by Tuesday evening. Eight other vessels are on their way, including four Canadian Coast Guard vessels, the French research vessel L’Atalante and Canada’s HMCS Glace Bay, which has a decompression chamber and medical personnel on board, the US Coast Guard said on Tuesday evening.
After being rescued, divers who have had an accident must get into such a hyperbaric chamber as quickly as possible in order to prevent permanent damage. If people are under high ambient pressure for a long time, as is the case at great water depths, they absorb more nitrogen than normal. This can lead to gas bubbles in the blood and tissues, which can be fatal if they get to the brain.