and checking out the truth behind them. let s turn to our main story. we start in the north atlantic where a canadian aircraft and a ship with remote controlled underwater vessels capable of searching deep underwater have joined the race to find the submersible that s gone missing. the sub was on a trip to see the wreck of the titanic. five people are on board. ships and planes are scouring the ocean around 640 kilometres off the coast of newfoundland in canada and dropping sonar buoys to detect any underwater activity. the titanic, which sank in 1912, lies nearly 4,000 metres beneath the surface. on sunday, all contact with it was lost with the vessel, about an hour and 45 minutes into its dive. there is only enough oxygen for up to 96 hours. 0ur correspondent carl nasman is live for us now in boston. carl, every time we speak each hour, the search in terms of hardware is just getting bigger and bigger. it just getting biggerand bigger. it just getting biggerand bigger.
quarters after the submersible made its jive the polar prince. quarters after the submersible made itsjive the polar prince. we know the co us coast forward coastguard is coordinating efforts. this is where the wreckage of the titanic is. it s around 600 km, about 370 miles. a huge area. let s look a little bit to see what s going on there. here we have sea searcher. this is a ship trapping website. these are the last known locations. we ve got polar prince here. there s only one ship that s close to polar prince at the moment. it s the deep energy, whose owners have been speaking to us and confirmed the vessel is involved in search efforts. typically, this is used to lay undersea pipes. it s also, we believe, got two submersible vehicle s onboard capable of travelling up to 3000
hope and pray, continue to hope and pray that their loved ones will come back. one of the crew, one of the wives said she s used to them going away for a long time and she said they re telling the kids he s still at work. they re hoping and praying for that. people are finding ways to cope with this. that means they don t have to face and accept some very hard things. and of course they say as well this waiting period, the fact that the pings have stopped, that it will be down to this submersible vehicle. that it will take a lot more time. it is painful, aggravating, frustrating. they don t want to hear more information about the plane. they really, what they need to help them move forward is some tangible evidence. all of this is very, very difficult. we asked one relative of a crew member on board the aircraft about what he thought about the
out of life, but the more signals they can get the better they can pinpoint precisely what s coming up from the sea bed which, don t forget, is almost three miles down. next thing they want to do is deploy a submersible vehicle, a kind of drone to put down there and take a look. it s a walking pace and incredibly slow and the area they have at the moment is very large. it would take weeks if are the drone to search that, but the more of the signals they can get, the more they will be able to narrow that down and that is good news and if it is confirmed yet another pointer and they ll be looking for more of these over the coming days as the search continues and they have the deployment drone. ian williams. thank you, ian. since gm announced the massive ignition switch recall the company puts employees on leave. it is one of the stories we are following around the news nation. authorities are on the hunt for
and probably in the search so far, it s the it s probably the best information that we have had. the plane and its 239 passengers and crew, of course, have been missing for more than 30 days now. and time is running out on those black box ping batteries. they could already be out. we don t know. nbc s ian williams has more on the new challenges of the search from perth, australia. reporter: good day to you, chuck. this is being described as the most promising lead yet, but the search coordinator is urging caution. they are today working round the clock to try and reacquire the signal that was spotted twice over the weekend by the u.s. ping locater, which is being dragged along by an australian ship. now, if they can reacquire this sound and better pinpoint where it s coming from, they ll then send a submersible vehicle down to take a closer look at what s down there, to see if they can locate the black box or, indeed,