the search operation out in the atlantic continues this morning. a research dive vessel that lost communications sunday has still not been found. and the obvious urgent concern is that the oxygen supply on board is dwindling by the minute, truly. officials say the sub lost contact with the support ship about an hour and 45 minutes into eye l its decent sunday. they say the vessel has enough oxygen to last about three to four days. the vessel is about the size of a minivan is what we re learning and is carrying a pilot, four passengers that are also called mission specialists. they were on an eight-day journey led by ocean gate technicians to view the bottom of the titanic at the bottom of the ocean. several agencies including the u.s. coast guard and the royal canadian air force are involved in the search. the search covers a huge area, 900 miles east of cape cod.
0ur correspondent damian mcguiness is at a donations centre in nurburg, western germany. a short time ago he told me about the scale of the rescue operation. there is a search operation out right now. right beside this building there is a centre where all the emergency services are gathered. there are about three to 400 emergency service vehicles out there, so hundreds of ambulances from various different organisations, army vehicles as well. they are being deployed, constantly looking for people. i talked to some of those rescue workers last night and they were telling me that the difficulty is, the longer this goes on, the more rather than looking for people to rescue, they are looking for bodies. that is the tragic reality. so time is of the essence and the difficulty is, we have no idea how many people might still be out there. that s because a lot of the roads are impassable and you can t get through them, they have collapsed and a lot of the bridges have gone as well. so it s ver
is completely gone. hard to imagine the time, the money it ll take to get this region back on its feet. jenny hill, bbc news, ahrweiler. 0ur correspondent is at a donation centre. he gave us a sense of the scale of the rescue operation. there is a search scale of the rescue operation. there is a search operation scale of the rescue operation. there is a search operation out scale of the rescue operation. there is a search operation out right - scale of the rescue operation. ti” is a search operation out right now, right beside this building. there is a centre where all of the emergency services are gathered. there are about 3 400 emergency service vehicles out there, hundreds of ambulances from different organisations. army vehicles as well. they are being deployed constantly, looking for people. i talk to some of those rescue workers last night and they were telling me that the difficulty is that the longer this goes on, rather than looking for people to rescue, they are looki