robot arriving at the search zone for the missing titanic submersible. the mission to find the five people on board critical juncture as experts warn the air supply may run thought a matter of minutes. todd piro joins us with the latest. todd: the coast guard is leading the international effort to find the five passengers on board who to your point are expected to run out of oxygen just minutes from now at 7:08 eastern time that literally is seven minutes from right now. officials are unsure if those reported under water banging noises are a sign of life. we don t know what they re. it s inconclusive. the important pieces we are searching in the area where the noises were detected. todd: the search now expanded to over 2.5 miles below the surface with more vessels and special equipment joining. in crews also surveys over 14,000 square miles twice the size of the state of kentucky cut. we are learning more about the history of ocean gates expedition with reports one pass
former oceangate employee, who claims he was wrongfully terminated for raising red flags, once sent an ominous email to a colleague about the doomed vessel, adding, that sub is an accident waiting to happen. he said about stockton rush, i don t want to be seen as a tattle tell, but i m worried he kills himself and others in a quest to boost his ego. rush died in the tragedy. joining me now is ben ta of t new yorker who wrote this story. you received this report by david lockridge. it details so many issues he found with the sub during an inspection. tell us more about what he found in this report. sure. yeah, david lockridge was perhaps the only highly experienced submarine pilot who worked at oceangate at the time. and he was hired as their director of marine operations.
expedition with reports one passenger claims he was on the submersible and lost contact two hours forcing early end to his journey. 2018 safety report detailing several concerns including whether the vessel met industry standards and whether the company had safety approach to expeditions one former oceangate employee claims he was wrongfully terminated for raising safety concerns and calling for more rigorous safety checks. back to you. brian: all right. thanks,, todd. let s bring in jake a former navy seal and trained navy diver and surface warfare officer. jake, do you believe we have the tools on site to try to recover this visz sell. yes, obviously we have a bunch of people over there, a bunch of nations looking for them. the toast guard has a bunch of cutters out there. i think recovering it will be easy. it s finding it that s the problem. ainsley: jake, what do you think happened?