you ll see here first on the story. first, this is an incredible frightening story playing out right now. the clock is ticking. 72 hours to go and counting for the long titanic submersible. the adventure tourist vehicle, which we believe has five individuals on it. we have the identity of one of them. we ll talk about this in just a moment. they lost contact with their home base several hours ago. they were supposed to be down there for six hours and return last night. now, as i said, the race is on to find these people. several government agencies are involved, private entities searching the vast ocean. you can see where the titanic is resting on the floor of the ocean and where this mission went from to take these eco tourists down there, these adventure tourists to see the wreckage up close. it s an extraordinary opportunity. the company that does this is called oceangate expeditions. they use a sub like this. you can see the man at the front of it. it s compared to the
hour. what an inspire story. sandra: i love a good story with a happy ending. this very special conversation coming up as the student athlete, the sixth grader and his mother, all join us live coming up. we ll start things off with this fox news alert. john: secretary of state antony blinken wrapping up his historic trip to beijing and attempt to clear the air between the world s top two superpowers. sandra: they say the conversations were constructive but admitting they failed to reach notable breakthroughs on taiwan, slamming the talks as fruitless. the risk here of this renewed engagement strategy is we will abandon important defensive actions to engage in a series of endless fruitless talks with the ccp. john: a bipartisan group of lawmakers is calling on president biden to take a page out of his predecessor s playbook. he want to expand israel s diplomatic ties with countries in africa to keep china from establishing a bigger footprint there. sandra: we will
mentions possible death three times on the first page. so you know what you re getting into and in fact, when i stepped on to the sub i just knew part of my mind was going, well, this could be the end. cnn s gabe cohen, he toured the same oceangate titan sub in 2018 and we know that the space inside is cramped when showing video when you were takinging a tour of the same sub, but it has been they days that these people have been down there. what does it look and feel like in there? yeah. so, kate, certainly, as you said there s not a lot of space. i don t like tight spaces and that s something that you really feel when you take your shoes off and stepped into that vessel. sitting in it, it was cramped, it s small and roughly the size of a minivan, which, of course, is why it can only fit five people. there s a small, makeshift bathroom set up onboard and this was designed for passengers to
as rescue operations continue for the missing sub, we are hearing more about what it s like to be inside that vessel 12,000 feet below the surface. mike reese, he is one of the original writers on the simpsons. he took one of these trips we re speaking about. speaking to a cnn affiliate, he describes the risk he taking when he stepped inside. we were all a part of this ongoing experiment. it s not a tour. it s not a fun trip. this is they re doing research and inventing the technology as they go. so before you even get on, you sign this long, long waiver that
and developing this craft could result in negative outcome from minor to catastrophic that would have serious consequences for everyone in the industry, and it went on to say your marketing material advertises that the titan design will meet or exceed the dmvgl safety standards and these are standards developed a long time ago for this type of vessel and yet it does not appear that oceangate has the intention of following your class rules and your representation is at minimum misleading to the public and leads a professional code of conduct we all endeavor to uphold. simply put, kate. years ago there were people in the company and outside the company saying your approach to developing this craft is too experimental, too outside the norms and is not being submitted to the standards that worldwide maritime organizations expect. bottom line is, a vehicle like this, engineers should say should be tested to two, three, four, five times the amount of