and the size and the speed of so many assets being deployed so quickly. the different ships with their rovs, their installed sonars were coming from militaries, from the commercial side, different countries. they brought in p-8 poseidons and p-3s. these are anti-submarine aircraft. if you drop a series of sonobuoys in the water and they detect activity, you can use that detection to triangulate exactly where that activity is. i have been on lot of salvage operations and it absolutely is a needle in a haystack. but you use all your resources and use all this amazing data, whether it s the oceanographers that tell you what the prevailing currents are, whether it s the sonobuoys, all that different information is chipping away at that haystack. the smaller the haystack gets, the easier it is to find that
triton excuse me, the the tan did not have any of that. and so i understand that the rovs are a lousy search platform. once you know where something is, then the rov is something that you want, because you can leave it down there indefinitely, because it is powered up from the surface, and they have sonars to detect the target close enough. so you deal with what you have got, but right now, it is not optimal, and of course, with life support scheduled to run out some time this morning, then that s an additional problem. tim taylor, a deep water search expert said that the rovs should have been on site four days ago, and on standby support
for every problem there s an optimal solution. i ve drummed that into my son s head for every problem there s an optimal solution. it is the most terrifying thing coming to the conclusion, no, there ain t a solution. there is no solution, period. there s just no one around, and i imagine that at some point in these five folks on the titan, they came to that realization. you could have all the experience in the world, but at the end of the day there s only so much you can do. no amount of technology, no number of planes, rovs, sonars, nothing, nothing can come to your rescue. if you re at the bottom of the ocean two and a half miles down, you don t just go down there and reach in even with a cable or grappling hook. pressures are enormous, bone crushing, it s cold down there.
operation, and we were able to mobilise an immense amount of gear to the site, and just a really remarkable amount of time, given the fact that we started without any sort of vessel response plan for this, or any state of pre staged resources. so the equipment that was brought on site this morning that we were using was a pelagic rov capable of operating at 6000 metres, cameras, sonars, particularly arms and resources on it. we had to transport it here through c 17 aircraft, this is to aircraft that it took to get this up here. so we ve really had the right gear on site and worked as swiftly as
both planes and other vessels. this is almost a little bit like unfortunately reminding us about the titanic when it actually sunk. you remember there was a number of commercial vessels that eventually made it there for the rescue. there are a number of commercial and navy vessels that have been deployed. they ve put sonars in the water so they are trying to identify and see if they can find it via the sonars. and there are planes, c-130s, that are flying on top just for visual outlook and also using their radar, of course. so both underneath the water and above the water the search and rescue mission is clearly looking, but so far to no avail, which is a bit strange because ultimately they were the submersible were targeting titanic so the natural thing would be to start around titanic.