traveling 400 miles to the site of the title 42 for a ten-hour journey two miles below the ocean surface to explore the breckage. there were five people onboard. less than two hours after their descent they stopped communicating with the parent ship. the u.s. navy detected a sound that could have been an implosion in area and reportedly forwarded that information to the incident commander. that was not release olympicly. rescuers needed to find it quickly because it had 96 of ox. over the next hour, step by step through the five-day search for missing submersible, everything we know about what happened to the titani and its passengers the risks of going so far down into the ocean and the warnings that had been raised about the titan submersible. just into cnn, a deep sea search and rescue mission with life or death consequences. there was a rush to find a submersible that ferries people to the wreckage the titanic. the united states and canadian coast guards have la
we re live with the latest. plus, taste the expletive out of the blue, a january 6th rioter who bragged about using a stun gun on police learns his fate from a judge. and the race against time in the atlantic, with less than a day s worth of oxygen inside a missing submersible, more ships are rushing to a search area two times the size of connecticut, hoping to find five people alive. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments. i want to begin right there with the latest on the search and rescue with nbc s kristen dahlgren, we don t know for sure how long they may have breathable oxygen. we know yesterday it was 40 hours, now we re probably down to 15 if that was right. but clearly from the press conference we just heard, this is 100% search and rescue still? reporter: yeah, absolutely, chris, and as for that question about how much breathable air is on board, they wouldn t field that today, they said there were a lot of factors that play into i
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-3. these are anti-submarine aircraft. if you drop a series of sono buoys 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 need in a haystack. but you use yall 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 sono buoys, all that different information is chipping away at that haystack. the smaller the haystack gets,
to change the oil filter and can t get it off, and he bangs on it, and now the airplanes detect banging, and we locate it, oh it s near the titanic, send the rov over, we can t find anything. we need discipline in the fleet assembling to not make any noise so any noise we hear is coming from the submarine. even the fact that they have heard noises, multiple surveillance planes have heard them over the course of yesterday and today, even given that, how difficult is it, then, to take that information and really figure out where it s coming from? so these planes are propping what we call sono buoys, they look like a poster tube. and they drop out of the airplane, antenna stays on the surface, and they go down a little cable underwater, and they re listening. now, they re listening the ocean is noisy, there s fish,