all of that and more. this hour of cnn this morning starts right now. good morning. a remote operated vehicle has reached the ocean floor and is searching right now for the missing sub that vanished near the titanic shipwreck. that s the new and significant announcement from a short time ago from the u.s. coast guard. sonar picked up banging sounds again yesterday. the coast guard has not been able to find where or what the noises are coming from. you are looking at video of a canadian surveillance plane dropping sonar probes. now, it s part of that desperate search now entering a dire stage this morning. it is feared the five people onboard might have little to no breathable air left at this point. also new overnight, oceangate s founder and ceo who is piloting the titanic submersible when it went missing is coming under more scrutiny. a former subcontractor who helped develop the sub says the construction materials and design choices were controversial and experimen
sub under scrutiny. new questions about what went wrong with the titan submersible and whether the tragic outcome could have been avoided. we re also learning new details about the recovery effort and investigation. trust the process? give it time? ukraine s prime minister is calling for patience as western officials tell me assessments indicate counteroffensive against russia is not meeting expectations. we ll view what the challenges are. and republican 2024 hopefuls are here in washington, d.c. meeting with a evangelicals, but looming in front is donald trump. how are the candidates handling this? we ll ask one. that is all coming up here on cnn news central. a desperate search is now a complex recovery. a daunting investigation is under way two miles below the surface of a remote hostile atlantic ocean to find out why the titan sub imploded and killed all five people on board. underwater robotic vehicles are mapping debris fields near the titanic wreckage. off
thrill-seeking adventurer, a highly respected ocean expert and the visionary ceo of the company. and now calls for a new look at safety in this industry of extreme tourism. will and should someone be held responsible for what just happened? this is cnn news central. the tragic news is setting in, but with it a new search begins. investigators are scouring the ocean floor now, looking for the debris from oceangate s titan sub, as experts now try to piece together what really happened. so much we don t know, of course, but here is what we do know, experts believe the oceangate titan suffered a catastrophic implosion, that s described as a sudden inward collapse of the vessel. that happens due to the tremendous amount of pressure on the sub, really anything at those depths of the ocean. officials say the implosion would have happened in a fraction of a millisecond, essentially killing everyone on board instantly. one expert says no one inside would have realized there was
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five people in a tiny submersible last known whereabouts, 13,000 feet under the sea. some 33 hours of air left. also tonight, hunter biden s plea deal on we look at the effects. and the plot to assassinate a russian defector on american soil. good evening, we begin now with a desperate search for the oceangate titan. a miniature submarine with five people inside. they hoped to visit the right of the titanic on the ocean floor in the north atlantic but now they face a disaster of their own. they re slowly running out of air. that is, if they are still alive. we simply do not know. all communications have been lost. even if the craft is somehow able to surface on its own, it cannot be open from inside. rescuers would need to locate it before those on board run out of oxygen in some 33 hours. this is what five people aboard the missing oceangate titan are up against right now and what charges know all too well. joining us from st. john s, newfoundland, where the submerssible l