Victor 6000, the robot engaged in the search for the Titan submarine, has found some wreckage , reports the US Coast Guard.
The search for the missing submarine on the trail of the wreck of the Titanic and its five occupants , the American media explain, continues while information on the debris found is being analysed.
Even the British government in the field to find Titan: London has announced the dispatch of a RAF military aircraft , with specialized equipment, carrying a submarine officer, Lieutenant Richard Kantharia, who has "significant knowledge of submarine warfare and diving operations.
The oxygen on the vehicle is finished and the hopes of finding the five "adventurers" alive are now reduced to a flicker .
THE WITNESS
Meanwhile, a retired German businessman, Arthur Loibl , 61, who participated in a Titan mission in 2021, said in no uncertain terms that he was alive "by a miracle".
Speaking with Bild, he defined that experience as a " kamikaze operation ".
«I paid OceanGate $110,000 for a dive in 2019, which failed because the submersible did not survive the test. Two years later I tried again with Titan. Imagine a tube a few meters long with a metal plate for the floor. You can't stand, you can't kneel . Everyone is sitting close or on top of each other. During the two and a half hour descent and ascent the lights were turned off to conserve energy and the only illumination came from a fluorescent stick. I was a little naive, it was a kamikaze operation, I was incredibly lucky ».
With him were OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, French diver and Titanic expert Paul-Henri Nargeolet (both currently aboard the Titan) and two other British men.
Again: «You need strong nerves, you don't have to be claustrophobic and you have to be able to sit cross-legged for ten hours. It must be hell down there now. There are only 2.50 meters of space, there are four degrees, there are no chairs or toilets ».
(Unioneonline/L)