find it is the banging or the noise individuals inside, if they re alive, may be making or to get a visual sense of it. that means getting subs down approximately to where they believe it would have descended once it lost pour or lost contact an hour and 45 minutes into the dive they were doing. there s a second sub, a french sub, r.o.v. as well, a remote operated vehicle, that can reach those depths. that entered the water in the last few hours, takes about eight hours to get to the depth. they would likely establish a grid pattern on the sea floor trying to figure out where exactly that sub is. the other thing that s happening, the ship behind me, the atlantic king fisher is, we understand, meant to take the salvage gear sitting at the airport, the st. john s airport, this navy salvage gear that can tow things from the bottom of the ocean at great depths,
a former subcontractor who helped develop the sub says the construction materials and design choices were controversial and experimental. the pressure hull itself on titan is made out of carbon fiber. carbon fiber is a completely untested material in this application, and that has been many late-night discussions. miguel marquez is live in st. john s, newfoundland. more ships are heading the search area with special equipment. what s the latest? reporter: yeah, there is salvage gear that arrived overnight and a c-17, it s at the airport now. it will be transported here and put on a ship and moved out this there. it takes about 24 hours to get from here to there. maybe 20 hours or so. still, it s a long time when they have a dwindling window for saving these people if, in fact,
now. it is a sliver, a tiny sliver of hope and they are grabbing on to that, moving to the area where they heard that sound in the hopes of finding them and being able to rescue them. if they can locate that submersible, then they d have to get the salvage gear out there, get it down to it and literally tow it to the top. hoping they can find the submersible. miguel marquez, thank you. someone who wrote extensively about another famous submission, the crew of pisces 3 submarine after it sank 1,500 feet below the north atlantic in 1973. stephen mcginty the author of the dive the untold story of the deepest submarine rescue. we appreciate you being with us. i am sure that you have a different perspective than so many given all of your reporting on what happened and the miracle of 1973. what is different now about the ability to find and rescue people in a situation like this?
and stockton rush even admitted that i have broken some rules to build the submersible. we have miguel marquez in newfoundland with the latest on the search. what are you learning? the window in that search is closing, and the urgency here is certainly picking up in the sense that all of the pieces of this massive puzzle are coming together. it is this rov, the remote operated vehicle, that is on sea floor now, and searching for that sub. another rov is on the way down, and it takes about eight hour, and it will be this there in four hours or so, and it can assist in searching for the sub. the ship behind me is meant to be taking asalvage gear that is sitting in the airports here at st. johns that can salvage almost anything from depths greater than what they are dealing with out there.
hyperthermia and all those other medical issues that we talked about and to keep faith that the rescue team on the surface is doing their job, which is to continue to search for them. and which we see that the team is continuing to do. and if they re able to continue to try to communicate through whichever means possible, which would be banging on the hull, that they continue to do that. and give the searchers on the surface as much help as possible. and the search team will continue to do their job, which is to use all their resources to isolate where the titan could possibly be and then get that salvage gear or in this case a cable down there to bring the titan back to the surface. so, both sides of the equation need to be doing their job to