the briefing. running it appears he will be running the briefing at 3:00 p.m.00 that may speak to the fact thata they expect to have some significant developments. we are 900 miles away from the site here in boston. 900 miles out to sea is where the search zone is, and yet, the incident command center is heren in boston because it is in the coast guard district 1, and that means that they are responsible for search and rescue. however, obviously, the canadians are closer and that is why you ve seen such a robust response from canadian vessels already in the north atlantic, coming from halifax, coming from st. john s new finland, first on the scene and we believe there are more or less ten vessels up there in the north atlantic.he r when the canadian coast guard got there with a canadian naval office onad board he took comma on scene, so the on scene commander is t a canadian national,ad naval officer while the icc, incident command, is
search area. the but right now it is a race against absolute time. this is a complex search. reporter: a complex search now more complicated by time, which they re running out of. we know there s about 40 hours of breathable air left. reporter: deep water su submersibles and gear converging on st. john s newfoundland and canada. it s the closest land to the search zone. if it can be found, they ll need to bring all resources to bear as quickly as possible. you re dealing with a surface search and subsurface search. that makes it a complex operation. reporter: the five-person submersible started its time at 9 a.m. newfoundland time sunday. the last contact with the polar prince was 1:45 into the dive expected to last just over 9 hours. at 6:35 p.m. newfoundland time
reporter: a complex search now more complicated by time, which they are running out of. we know there is about 40 hours of breathable air left. reporter: deep water submersibles and gear converging on st. john s newfoundland from the u.s. and canada. it is the closest land to the search zone. if the titan can be found, they will need to bring all resources to bear as quickly as possible. you are dealing with a surface search and subsurface search. reporter: the five person submersible started its dive around 9:00 a.m. on sunday, its last contact with the mothership was an hour and 45 minutes into a dive expected to last just over nine hours. at 6:35 p.m. newfound land time sunday, the sub reported missing when it failed to surface at the scheduled time of 6:10 p.m. the vessel has oxygen for five
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now after hearing underwater noises they are redirecting their search zone, hoping they could close in on the vessel and find the five people on board still alive. for now, there are only theories about what could have gone wrong, did it get stuck under something or caught within something. was it within the titanic itself, and if so, when will rescuers, any sort of robotic ship or whatever, be able to get down there. time and oxygen are running out. but the u.s. coast guard insists that this is still a rescue mission. sometimes you re in a position where you have to make a tough decision. we re not there yet. joining us from newfoundland is ron allen and from boston, nbc news correspondent kristen dahlgren. ron, you just got done with a news conference up there with the people behind the vessel, the ship that the submersible