debris from the vessel discovered not far from the crew s planned destimation, the wreckage of the tay tannic. we have deep sea experts standing by. we ll also be taking a closer look at the five people onboard whose families and friends are now grieving. we ll be joined by guests who knew several of the passengers and understood their love of exploration and adventure. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. wolf blitzer is off today. i m alex marquardt, and you re in the situation room. tonight the coast guard says it is continuing its investigation of the submersible and its implosion. the discovery of debris confirming everyone s worst fears, that the underwater expedition to see the ruins of the titanic had a disastrous end. our correspondents are at key locations covering the story from every angle. first, i want to go to miguel marquez who s in newfoundland. the debris field was found just off the coast of canada where you are just
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Debris from the vessel discovered not far from the crew s planned destimation, the wreckage of the tay tannic. we have deep sea experts standing by. we ll also be taking a closer look at the five people onboard whose families and friends are now grieving. we ll be joined by guests who knew several of the passengers and understood their love of exploration and adventure. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. wolf blitzer is off today. i m alex marquardt, and you re in the situation room. tonight the coast guard says it is continuing its investigation of the submersible and its implosion. the discovery of debris confirming everyone s worst fears, that the underwater expedition to see the ruins of the titanic had a disastrous end. our correspondents are at key locations covering the story from every angle. first, i want to go to miguel marquez who s in newfoundland.
A potentially brazen act seemingly ordered by vladimir putin. elsewhere an urgent search and rescue operation under way 330 miles off the coast of canada looking for any signs of a small submersible that s been missing since sunday. it was taking paying passengers down to see the wreck of the tay tannic. nbc s tom costello has the latest details. reporter: u.s. and american coast guard ships are rushing to the north atlantic as two u.s. c130 planes survey the vast ocean surface for any signs of a private submersible and the fbi people onboard last seen sunday morning as it descended to survey the wreck of the tay tannic. during the course of the dive they ve lost communications, and we have not had communications with the submersible since then. reporter: the 21-foot submersible named titan is owned by ocean gate, an operator of small subs for research, film
The ocean. if your submersibles can find this sub, is there any way to retrieve it and save the people onboard? we have a group of our nation s best experts on the unified command, and if we get to that point, those experts will be looking at what the next course of action is. reporter: but time is of the essence. kerry burts is a former astronaut and close friend of hamish harding who heard from him before he dived. the hope all five are still alive. i would assume they re stuck in the bottom in the mud or somehow entangled in the tay tannic. it s a search and rescue mission so first of all they have to find them. tom, what more can you tell us about this salvage equipment the navy is rushing to new finland, canada? reporter: the air force tells us c-17said are right now flying that salvage equipment from buffalo to new finland, but then they ve got to load it onto a ship or ships.