some urgent unanswered questions for the coast guard at this hour. we re going to be hearing from them any moment at a press conference as this tourist dive vessel has not been found. oxygen levels running low. it lost contact with its support ship about an hour and 45 minutes into its voyage on sunday. they say the vessel has enough oxygen to last three or four days. anywhere from 50 to 76 hours until they run out of breathable air. the vessel, by the way, is about the size of a machineny van and the it s the property of a company called ocean gate. let s head to boston where the coast guard is holding this press conference. reporter: with five people on board, along with providing a update on current search efforts and plans for the next 24 hour. on behalf of all the men and women of the united states coast guard and our search partners, we offer our most heartfelt thoughts and prayers for the five crew members, their families, and loved ones. our crews are working around
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We will provide unwavering effort as we continue the search, and at this time we ll open it up and take questions. can you explain how an r.o.v. works, sir? if it s tethered to a ship? could it actually plug our pulling? so, each of the rovs that s a vague question. they have different capability. the current rov that s deployed has some limited capability. it has a camera on board. but again, each of those is different, and we ll be gathering more information as that operation goes on for the day. captain, how many hours if you re subamersibles can find this sub s there any way to retrieve it and save the people on board? all our efforts now are focused on finding the sub. what i ll tell you, we have a group of our nation s best experts in the unified command, and if we get to that point, those experts will be looking at
Next to nothing beneath the water. they definitely have challenges ahead of them. some of key items i want to tick through here from the briefing which is just now beginning to wrap up, they called it a unique operation. as you were saying, a challenging operation. some of the headlines here, about 40 hours of breathable oxygen that s left on board that submersible. i asked captain frederick here, even if you were able to get the necessary congreequipment to put submarine out at the time, if you had it right there, would 40 hours to be enough time to conduct that rescue? he said he couldn t say. he also indicated that the deep energy vessel has what is called an rov unit that is currently right now conducting a search in the area where the submersible
Choose to do a recovery operation, given the difficulties? i think it depends on a number of factors. anything that can change between now and then, as far as information response that could chang that, so it s not a hard and fast timer s up, time to transition. there s a lot of factors that go into it that could extend something like that. excuse me, what role does the amount of oxygen play in one of those [ inaudible ] with 40 hour of oxygen left, when would you transition from a search and rescue to a search and recovery? i don t know an answer to that. that s definitely outside. we can try to get back to you. as we transition through that phase, we ll have better answers. [ inaudible ] what exactly are the coast guard facing on the water? weatherwise i believe the weather on scene today was five to six foot sees. seas. what s that mean, the waves? wave height.