not exactly. lying the tightan, there was limited air. just enough for 72 hours. the two men extended it by lying still and not talking. when they finally emerged after 84 hours, they had enough for only 12 minutes more. so how different is the ti titan s predicament? it is still missing more than 400 miles from land. the pisces had steady communications. no one has spoken with the titan since it vanished. it is in much deeper water. and even when the pisces was pulled up, the men inside were terribly battered. they thought they would be smashed unconscious. the sub was just rattling and rolling and spinning. at one point they begged for the lift to stop. reporter: there have been other undersea rescue attempts. in 1939 when a ship sank in under 250 feet of water, 26 men
like the titan, the pisces had limited area, just enough for 82 hours, the two men extended it by lying still, not talking. when they finally emerged after 84 hours, they only had enough for 12 minutes more. how different, the pisces was located quickly. the titan is still missing more than 400 miles from land. the pisces had steady communications. no one has spoken with the titan since it vanished. the titan is in much deeper water. even when the pisces was pulled up, the men inside was terribly battered. they thought they were going to be smashed unconscious. it was just spinning. reporter: there having under undersea rescue attempts. in 1999, when they save in less than 250 feet of water, 26 men
ocean gate used off-the-shelf materials to simplify construction and easy to replace parts. with me tim taylor ceo of subgate. tim, nice to see you it s not like a arena crashes in the sea. they know where the titanic is. they know roughly where the sub was operating when it lost contact. so why is it so hard to find now? well, i m asking a lot of questions about that, myself. you mitigate risks when we work with underwater vehicles. all of our vehicles have pingers on them like black box pingers that you can locate. i m asking myself why that s not the case. there s a lot of first of all, we need to focus on the rescue attempts, whatever is out there now. let s hope that they find these people and they re still alive and they can bring them to the surface. but, questioning why there
families, were evacuated president biden ordered the high stakes mission friday backed by cia specialists on the ground and air force overhead thankfully the teams made it out without any. the embassy is now closed. secretary of state blinken says it s too dangerous to attempt another extraction anytime soon. we continue to be in close communication with u.s. citizens and individuals afailuated with the u.s. government to provide assistance and facilitate available departure routes for those seeking to move to safety via land, air, and sea nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engel has more from london we were tracking this through the last couple of days, getting off the record guidance. couldn t report it until we knew they were safe there were disastrous rescue attempts in the past this was successful. there are more civilians embassy and state department don t know how many because