On Wednesday the US Coast Guard said that oxygen will run out at 12.08pm UK time today, this time has now passed and it most likely the Titan submersible has run out of breathable air.
An oceanographer has said that the search and rescue teams looking for the Titan submersible are simply “relying on luck.”
Dr Simon Boxall of the University of Southampton said it is not known if the Titan reached the Titanic or where it was at the time it lost contact with the surface.
Dr Boxall told Sky News, “This is why the search area is so vast. You’ve also got two of the most complex currents in the world here.
“People assume the deep oceans are very quiet. You’ve got some of the strongest deep ocean currents here, where most of the deep water peatland is formed – you’ve got currents, got this thing drifting down.”
He then explained that if the Titan is in tact then it could have travelled “tens of miles” and then may have settled on the seabed somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean.
Dr Boxall added, “They’re relying now really on luck than anything else,” and there’s a “very tricky task ahead.”
The US Coast Guard announce just after noon on Thursday that a French vessel is preparing a deep sea robot to enter the ocean to search the seabed which is remotely operated.
