traveling 400 miles to the site of the title 42 for a ten-hour journey two miles below the ocean surface to explore the breckage. there were five people onboard. less than two hours after their descent they stopped communicating with the parent ship. the u.s. navy detected a sound that could have been an implosion in area and reportedly forwarded that information to the incident commander. that was not release olympicly. rescuers needed to find it quickly because it had 96 of ox. over the next hour, step by step through the five-day search for missing submersible, everything we know about what happened to the titani and its passengers the risks of going so far down into the ocean and the warnings that had been raised about the titan submersible. just into cnn, a deep sea search and rescue mission with life or death consequences. there was a rush to find a submersible that ferries people to the wreckage the titanic. the united states and canadian coast guards have la
on titan in 2021. you are on deck and you have a hardhat on. a jumpsuit. an orange vest. the crew would start loading in and would get into the submersible. on the outside the titan doesn t look like any submersible that s come before it. most are spheres. this thing looks like a giant white capsule. it s 22 feet long like a pharmaceutical capsule. imagine a cylindrical minivan with no seats. look cool inside. there is to no dashboard. there is no cockpit. that s the last we will see of land for eight days. david postgue was covering oceangate for the cbs sunday morning show and was scheduled to ride last year but his dive was canceled after passing a routine prelaunch inspection. i was taken aback by some of these features which did not