to find the titan submersible grows by the hour. we ll also show you what it s like inside the titan and talk to someone who raised douts about its safety. and from ukraine, just how difficult the counteroffensive has been. the most urgent deadline there is for the five people you see here on the missing submersible. british businessman hamish harding, shahzada dawood and his teenage son, suleman, paul henry nargeolet, and stockton rush. they are now the subject of a multinational search involving military and civilian ships, aircraft, and expertise, which grew larger in size and capability today. the question is, is it enough and do they have time? this is new video from a canadian air force plane. the entire effort is running on hope that underwater sounds are coming from the titan. it s also running up against the sub s limited oxygen supply and the possibility locating a vessel the size of a large car in an area twice the size of connecticut will simply take more
60, more sounds from under the seat, as the race to find the titan submersible grows more urgent by the hour. we ll show you what it s like inside the tighten, and talk to someone who raised doubts about its safety. an exclusive cnn reporting from the front lines of, ukraine showing just how difficult the counter offensive underway has been. good evening, we begin tonight with the most urgent deadline there is, for the five people you see here aboard the ocean gate titan somersville, cussing somewhere in the north atlantic on the way to the wreck of the titanic. british businessmen hamish harding, british pakistani businessman shahzada dawood, and his teenage son, suleman, french maritime explore paul-henri nargeolet, and ocean gate founder stockton rush, they are now the subject of a multinational search involving military and civilian ships, aircraft, an expertise, which grew larger in size, capability today. the question is, is it enough, and do they have time? this is new
decades earlier and a frantic search more than 1,000 feet beneath the surface. it was 1973, and rescue teams were searching for a commercial submersible known as the pisces iii. it had disappeared off the coast of ireland. two british sailors spent three days trapped in the vessel, which was about six feet in diameter. they had been laying trans atlantic telephone cable when the rope connecting them snapped. they survived on a single sandwich and extra oxygen they had on board. before we started the dive, i stole a bottle of oxygen. and because of we stole it, i m still here. otherwise, we certainly wouldn t have been here. reporter: the pisces iii was trapped more than 1,500 feet below sea level, around 150 miles off the island. the men inside avoided speaking to conserve air.
the pisces iii was trapped one and 1500 feet below sea level, about off work island. the men inside avoided speaking to conserve. air rescues were able to locate the vessel by using sonar by making one of the sailors sing high notes. crews were finally able to bring the sub to the surface using a toe rope. by the time the men were freed, they had just 12 minutes of oxygen left. according to the guinness book of world records, it was the deepest water rescue ever. it took 85 hours to rescue us. about a decade earlier, officials lost contact with the uss thresher, hundreds of miles off the coast of cape cod. the nuclear attack submarine was doing deep diving tests when its communications became garbled. no sooner did the tender skylark reported something amiss, that navy search teams when it actually. was optimism at first. communication was faulty. with the hours, hope waned. 129 officers, crewmen, and
Almost exactly 50 years after his small submersible plummeted to the Atlantic Ocean floor, the 85-year-old English man is now being confronted with those memories again.