per person. now, the crew launched around 4:00 a.m. on sunday. lost communication roughly two hours later. officials now fear it sank too far down for a manned rescue. u.k. billionaire harding believed to be on board the vessel along with veteran french diver and crew member paul henry nargala one of pakistan s richest men, and his teenaged son also on board, according to a statement from his company. coast guard officials say they are exhausting every search effort possible. this particular sib mea submersible is advertised as 96 hours of survival time. we ll continue searching for all means to try to locate the crew members. will: oceangate releasing its own statement saying we are exploring and mobilizing all options to bring the crew back safely. we spoke with a navy veteran on the rescue mission at hand. i think you have to keep the
are going to happen with the submarine are happening acoustically. so you use an acoustic radio, if you will, to talk with them. and it could just be that system has failed. the problem, though, is that system had failed, they should have come to the surface right away and the system or it has systems to be able to quickly surface. without that happening, it would suggest not only did they have a communication failure, other systems on the submersible are failing as well. will: you addressed the likelihood of being able to spot the submersible had it floated to the surface. what about if it is still intact but at the bottom of the sea somewhere? it was described a little earlier as, i believe, not exactly as a needle in a haystack but that s also very difficult to identify them somewhere on the bottom of the ocean. right. exactly. if they are on the bottom, there s a lot of clutter, obviously, the titanic wreckage is there. there s a large debris field. it may be very difficult t
optimism and you have to focus in on the mission. the potential for the folks on board to survive is at least until thursday midday. just based on nominal oxygen on this vessel. now, if the folks on board, you know, they took active measures to slow down their activity level and try to conserve their breathing, they might be able to thin that out a little bit. will: as of now, experts say the vessel has less than 70 hours before it runs out of air. back to you. thank you, todd. will: there s a chance that the power is out. people are surmising that could be the case. that s why they lost communication. we keep putting a time limit on how much oxygen they have. as i understand it, there s also a machine in the submersible that scrubs your c02 so every time you breathe out, you re in essence poisoning the air and limiting your time further. but they have a machine that scrubs that c02. there s no power, is that machine working? do they truly have all that time with oxygen? ainsle