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8:21 p.m., June 22, 2023
According to the US Coast Guard, debris has been found near the wreck of the Titanic as searches continue to try to find the trace of a tourist submarine missing for several days. “Experts are reviewing this information” which will be discussed at a press briefing on Thursday.
“Debris” have been discovered in the Atlantic near the wreck of the Titanic by a robot participating in international research to find a scientific tourism submersible missing since Sunday and whose oxygen on board is a priori exhausted. The US Coast Guard announced on Twitter on Thursday that a “debris field” had been located “in the search area by a ROV (Remotely Operated Vehicle, editor’s note) near the Titanic”, the famous liner of cruise that sank 111 years ago off the coast of the United States and Canada.
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“Experts are examining this information” which will be discussed at a press briefing in Boston (northeast) at 3 p.m. (7 p.m. GMT), according to the coast guard, at the head of unprecedented search and rescue to find alive the five passengers of the small submersible, the Titan: two Pakistani-British, a British, a French and an American.
‘Rescue efforts’ continue
Earlier, US Rear Admiral John Mauger assured NBC that “rescue efforts” would continue because “we continue to see in particularly complex cases that people’s will to live must truly be taken into account” . Rescuers had estimated at 11:08 GMT on Thursday the time at which passengers could run out of oxygen on board the Titan, a small deep-sea explorer from the American private company OceanGate Expeditions. Missing since Sunday, the machine has a theoretical autonomy of 96 hours in diving.
Wednesday’s announcement of the detection of underwater noises by Canadian P-3 planes raised hopes and oriented the multinational armada of rescuers dispatched to the scene, without the origin of the noises being determined.