unusual newsday, which may b in part a function of th holiday? but i don t really think, so i think it s just turning out to be an unusual newsday. first, of all i should mention that this remarkable search an rescue operation is stil underway right now about 370 miles off the coas of newfoundland in the north atlantic a submarine is an autonomous self supporting undersea vessel. a submersible, as opposed to a submarine, is a vessel tha also goes under the water bu it is not autonomous it has the use either anothe ship or a surface platform o some kind as a home base t which it is based. the vehicle that has been lost that they are looking for righ now, is a submersible. the ship from which it launche lost contact with it yesterday about an hour and 45 minutes after it started a dive. the dive was supposed to b about two and a half hours down, three hours on the bottom of the ocean, and then another tw hours back so it was about eight hour beneath the waves but about an hour
now. it is turning out to be an unusual news day which may be in part a function of the holiday i don t think so i think it is just turning out to be an unusual news day. this remarkable search and rescue operation is still underway about 370 miles off the coast of new foundland in the north atlantic a sub marine is an autonomous submersible, as opposed to a sub marine, goes under the water but it is not autonomous it has to use a ship or a surface platform as a kind of home base to which it is linked. the vehicle that has been lost, that they are lack for right now, is a submersible. the ship from which it launched lost contact with it yesterday about 1:45 after it started a dive the dive was supposed to be about two and a half hours down. three hours on the bottom of the ocean, and then another two and a half hours back. it was supposed to be about eight hours beneath the waves. about 1:45 into that mission, they reportedly lost communication. on the submersible, there are
ship or surface platform of some kind as a kind of home base of which it is linkedch the vehicle that has been lost, that they re looking for right now is the ship from which it launched lost contact with it yesterday about an hour and 45 minutes after it45 started a dive. the dive was supposed to be about 2 1/2 hours down, 3 hours on the bottom of the ocean, and another 2 hours back. so it was supposed to be about 8 hours beneath the waves, but about an hour and three quarters into thatre 8-hour mission they reportedly lost communication. on thisre submersible there are five peoplesu onboard. the reason they were going down the reason they were in that part of the north atlantic is because they were planning to gotl look at the shipwrecked rus of it titanic. again, it should have been about 2 1/2 hours diving down roughly 2 miles to see the shipwreck, about 3 hours they were down looking at it, poking around, and then another 2 1/2 hours coming up those 2 miles back throug