discouraging news for the people that have been hoping for a miracle as you mentioned, the oxygen supply had run out, got release from the coast guard this morning that a remote operated vehicle, rov off the canadian ship horizon atlantic had located a debris field. that was the ship that we got the announcement early this morning that put the rov down to the depth of the atlantic, and it had been searching around, as well as the rov off the french ship. so we are waiting on more details. we know indeed it was from the horizon atlantic ship. all of this in spite of optimism people close to horizon maritime who are close to families, the joint rescue command center and halifax announced a ship arrived with medical professionals who specialized in diving injuries. they were carrying on board decompression change bet chambers for people that would have decompression sickness for the amount of time down there. the search to the south of where i am now has indeed been very activ
experts that might have hypotheses about what happened or what faced those five souls. that s tough to say. the primary source has been the coast guard and information coming out of the boston area. what we see here are rescue ships ready to go. you don t have a lot of personnel hanging around at the port of st. john here talking with people, they re kind of standing by, waiting for orders. we re seeing military aircraft come into the area, bringing in equipment. as far as any speculation about integrity of the hull, i would think even the maritime experts unless they re involved in deep sea exploration, they re really not going to be able to weigh in on the integrity of the carbon fiber and alloy hull. but you can go to the lawsuit and look at the one lawsuit you referenced, really was a lawsuit over a refund. so it doesn t necessarily apply. i think any tour group, and certainly tour groups
discussion this morning, if the wrooith brothers crashed and died, they would be the village idiots. innovation has its risk. we have autonomous vehicles driving on the road, you see the controversy over that. in order if civilization to succeed, we need adventure and we learn by that. a lot of people are critical of these missions, they think they re for adventure only. i would point out on the previous titanic missions, all together there were over 30 species of creatures identified that had never been known before, so there s always something to learn, whether it be safety, whether it be scientific, weather data, future mining, deep see exploration is something we need to spend more time and effort in and make it so people can be safer doing it. i love that you say that. kennedy, i love your question. elon musk, jeff bezos,
appreciating what exactly happened or what might have happened? well, we re never going to know until the submersible is recovered to determine forensically what actually happened, and then we learn by that. we ve had a lot of discussions, people questioning whether these are valuable. i tell people every exploration, whether it succeeds or fails, provides valuable information for us as a civilization and for the world, so we ll know that once we get it, but it s going to take awhile. so we don t know. there are so many possibilities of what could have happened here. we just can t put it together until we retrieve the submersible. thank you. you know, one question i have for you, again, you ve been on submersibles, you know what it is like, you ve been there, seen how it is remotely operated, and i see this quote from josh gates, a veteran explorer, hosts a tv series. he had this to say. to those asking, titan did not perform well on my dive.
the sound and that is despite using the best technology, including sonar buoys from aircraft to listen for things down there. in fact, we know that the sound was coming, what was described as banging, in 30 minute intervals. now that is an encouraging piece of information, because if it comes in regular intervals, that would indicate it is something man-made, not happening naturally at the bottom of the sea. but what you don t have is really the definitive ability to say this is coming from one location and it is indeed man-made. so you still have a giant search area, twice the size of connecticut, and at great depth. there s not a lot of encouragement from that. just a quick point, the u.s. coast guard said yesterday definitively it is not banging, just underwater noise they were trying to identify. wanted to get that in there. mike, as we anticipate an investigation that will likely unfold into this, who exactly will be running that?