and rescue operation for the tourist sub headed to the wreckage of the titanic. our own tom costello has the latest. the zone is the size of connecticut in each of the cold waters off the north atlantic. on board a, billionaire who has pursued extreme adventures worldwide. british businessman and his son. fresh pilot and ocean gate founder, ceo stockton rush. the titanic wreckage sits at the bottom of the ocean nearly 13,000 feet deep. where the pressure is roughly 400 times what it is at sea level. no diver could withstand it. but with time taking away u.s. and canadian coast guard ships and planes are coordinating a massive grid search. looking for any sign that the sub has come to the surface. so far nothing. if the sub is intact underwater it may have only a day and a half worth of air left.
13,000 feet deep. where the pressure is roughly 400 times what it is at sea level. no diver could withstand it. but with time taking away u. s. and canadian coast guard ships and planes are coordinating a massive grid search. looking for any sign that the sub has come to the surface. so far nothing. if the sub is intact underwater it may have only a day and a half worth of air left. this is a complex, search unified teams are working around the clock to build all available assets and expertise as quickly as possible. the sub has never been certified. among the safety concerns, the hatch can only be on bolted and opened from the out side. not the inside. and it runs using a video game controller. the navy is now rushing equipment to the site in case the sub needs to be lifted out of the ocean. if your submersible can find this sub is there any way to retrieve it and saved people on board? we have a group of our nation s best experts and unified command. and if we get to that poi
how do they prioritize it? the folks out there are professionals. they know how to do this. they know how to conduct searches. the one thing you don t want to do is jump from point to point unless you have good data to make you go off your search. you want to do a grid search that i m sure they re doing. the folks have done this before. they know what they re doing. it s very difficult to work in that environment that far deep. when you send a rov down there, which is designed to work down there with manipulators and sonar and lights and cameras, you have 2.5 miles on the u.s. navy s curve rov. they have 20,000 feet of cable. so you have the rov, the size of a small cargo van. you have 20,000 feet of cable, 2 inch think, a grain that hoists it, a control shack in a conex
at sea level. no diver could pith stand it. even a los angeles class navy sub has a maximum depth of 2 to 3,000 feet. tim taylor has led dozens of sub missions looking for world war ii wrecks. rockets explode, submersibles implode. they crush down on themselves like a toothpaste tube. reporter: but with time ticking away u.s. coast guard and canadian ships and planes are coordinating a grid search looking for any signs the sub has come to the surface. so far nothing. if the sub is intact under water it may have only a day and a half of air left. this is a very complex search and a unified team is working around the clock to bring all available assets to bear as quickly as possible. reporter: the sub called titan has never been certified. among the safety concerns the hatch can only be unbolted and opened from the outside, not the inside. and it runs using a video game controller. the navy is now rushing salvage equipment to the site in case the sub needs to be lifted out of
the five people on board who are hoping to see the wreckage of the titanic. submersible could use up all its air in less than about a day and a half. let s get an update from correspondent molly line in boston. good evening, mollie. good evening, bret. the coast guard reported there is no sign of the missing submarine with the five people on board and at this moment an estimated 35 hours of life support left there on board private and military assets are scouring above and below the surface covering thousands of miles. the canadian coast guard playing a major role. remote operating vehicles and diving planes are conducting a grid search. they are specialized if being able to see these things from the air. they have given it everything that they have to it. and if it s on the surface, we re fairly certain we would be able to find it. the founder of observation gate leading the mission. in 2021 the firm started taking paying customers to the titanic