air onboard is forecast to run out today. the us coast guard remains focused on rescuing those crew members alive. the surgery has been doubled in size. it comes as a french research ship reached the search area. 0ur correspondentjessica parker sent this report from boston, where the rescue effort is being co ordinated. extra equipment is still pouring in. an underwater robot, made by a british firm, has been loaded onto this plane. leaving from the channel islands, it s got a long journey. for those actually at the search site, there s little time. estimates suggest that the missing sub may, by now, have already run out of oxygen. but friends of those on board still have hope. they wouldn t be panicking at all. i believe the two clients are very high powered businessmen and one of their sons. again, they would be used to not
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has been deployed to that search site. rovs are about the size of a cargo van and they are tethered to a surface ship with a 2 inch thick cable which provides power and communication. now, u.s. military rovs have electric motors and cameras but would not have the capacity to actually be able to lift that submersible. that is where this piece of technology could come in. experts have suggested an rov could attach a cable to what s called the fly away deep ocean salvage system. it has the ability to lift loads up to 60,000 pounds and could potentially haul the submersible to the surface, but, of course, they have to find it first and that is where the trick it, kate. absolutely. the u.s. coast guard, u.s. navy, canadian coast guard they have been on this search and rescue mission since sunday. now the u.s. military is offering up additional assets to assist in what is clearly becoming a massive effort.
complex mission to recover the craft and those onboard. there are very few assets in the entire world that can reach more than 12,000 feet below sea level where the titanic lies and even those that can, they can only travel about a thousand feet per hour which means it could take 12 hours to reach the titanic if it s at the bottom. let s take a look at those machines which are called remotely operated vehicles or rovs. this is one that we know has been deployed to the search site now and rovs are about the size of a cargo van and they re tethered to a surface ship with a two-inch thick cable which provides power and communication. u.s. military rovs have electric motors and cameras, but would not have the capacity to lift the submersible. that is where this piece of equipment you see there could come in handy. experts have suggested the rov could attach a cable to the
reporter: we are hoping to learn more about this at the news conference, in less than an hour now. there were unconfirmed reports overnight that there was hanging and rhythmic every 30 minutes. nbc wasn t able to confirm that and our sources at the department of homeland security said it s safer to characterize this as a noise. they don t know what it is. there s no implication that it is man-made. keep in mind there s a lot of debris, metal down at the site so they re trying to zero in on that. they have remote operated vehicles, three new vessels that have made it out to the search site. one is equipped with a sonar,