Titan: sounds described as “thumps” detected at a regular rate by searching sonars

A race against time. The mobilization is total to find the Titan, a submersible gone to explore the remains of the Titanic and lost in the Atlantic Ocean since Sunday. The US military, supported by Canada and France, hopes to save the five passengers, who have only thirty hours of oxygen left in reserve.

According to information from the magazine rolling rocksBroadcast on CNN, teams searching for the submersible heard sounds described as “explosions,” a US government memo said Tuesday.

“Every 30 minutes”

CNN explains that these “thumps” would have been heard “every 30 minutes.” Similar noises were heard after additional sonars were deployed to the area.

However, the two American media do not specify the precise moment when these sounds were heard, nor the exact cause of these “blows”. contacted by rolling rocks, US authorities have not commented on this information.

CNN further explains that a second government memo indicates that other sounds were heard in the search area, without specifying the nature of the sonar recordings. Are these signs of life on the part of the five passengers? Hope begins to emerge.

“We understand that probable signs of life have been detected,” stated in a press release Richard Garriott, president of the “Explorers Club”, of which Hamish Harding, aboard the Titan, is a founding member.

every hour counts

At noon this Tuesday, the US Coast Guard warned at a press conference in Boston that there were “about 40 hours of breathable air” left in this small submersible and that the “particularly complex” search that began on Sunday “has so far produced no results “. “.

Conçu pour emmener cinq personnes dans les abysses, long d’environ 6,5 mètres, le Titan a entamé sa descente dimanche au large de la côte nord-est américaine et le contact avec l’engin a été perdu moins de deux heures après son exit.

The United States Coast Guard, a branch of the military, first sent two C-130 aircraft to the search area, “about 1,450 kilometers east of Cape Cod.” A third C-130 and three other C-17 transport planes were to be deployed Tuesday night, the Pentagon said.

The Canadian Coast Guard also mobilized a plane and a ship, while France announced that its Research Institute for the Exploitation of the Sea (Ifremer) dispatched a ship and its robot.