from the coast guard at a briefing set for 3:00 eastern time. meanwhile, we are learning that canada is stepping up its rescue efforts sending in a ship, the hmcs glace bay, equipped with a hyperbaric recompression, and we will be joined in just moments. sandra: molly line outside the u.s. headquarters in boston. first get to mike tobin, live at the staging area for the search in st. john s, canada. mike, exactly what we know, officials are reporting the remote operated robot discovered this debris field near the titanic and they are saying it could be linked to the missing titan but cannot confirm that to be the case. what else are we learning? well, we have learned that certainly very discouraging news for the people who are holding out hope for a miracle in this case. i spoke with larry david who is larry daily, i should say, logistics specialist for titanic expeditions, he was down to the wreckage in 2003, and 1 of the things he points out is when you go down to the
immediately found this but they are probably processing whatever images they got from the rov, they want to make sure of what they are seeing here, but again, i can t think of any reason why the coast guard would say we found a debris field, having a briefing about it unless it was connected to this. we all know the titanic has been there a long, long time. speak if you could since you ve been down in the mir, the russian submersible, i believe has a spherical crew compartment. it does. john: speak if you could to the construction of this new design of submersible that we were talking with our other guest brent about a moment ago and the fact it s made out of different materials, it seems to me would probably compress and expand at different rates.
announce they found a debris field unless they thought it had a connection. the construction of the craft, integral to the whole case here. most bathkaths or deep diving submersibles, the crew compartment is spherical, this was a tubular design. cbs sunday morning got a chance to get inside the craft. take a look at their excerpt from the report on that. we only have one button, that s it. it should be like an elevator. it shouldn t take a lot of skill. i couldn t help noticing how many pieces of the sub seemed improvised. i got these from camper world, we run the whole thing with this game controller. [laughter] come on. it seems likes this submersible has some elements of