During the search for the Titan tourist submersible that had sailed to the wreck of the Titanic, a Canadian aircraft 'heard banging sounds in the area every 30 minutes', according to e-mail updates sent to US Department of Homeland Security
This photo provided by OceanGate Expeditions shows a submersible vessel named Titan used to visit the wreckage site of the Titanic. It's been missing since June 18 [Photo: AP Archive]
Authorities in the US and Canada are racing against the clock to locate the vessel that was carrying people to see the Titanic wreckage site in the North Atlantic Ocean."Canadian P-3 aircraft detected underwater noises in the search area. As a result, ROV operations were relocated in an attempt to explore the origin of the noises," the US Coast Guard's First District said on its official Twitter page on Wednesday.
"The search efforts have focused on both surface with sea 130 aircraft searching by sight and with radar and subsurface with p3 aircraft. We're able to drop in monitor sonar buoys, today, those search efforts have not yielded any results,” said Captain Jamie Frederick from the First Coast Guard District response department.
Regarding search and rescue operations, the US Navy is “on standby should they be needed,” according to the White House.
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