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Titanic: Britain joins search party for missing submarine Titan amid fears it may be running out of oxygen
- Alice Davies
- BBC News
Titanic: A glimpse inside the lost submarine on its way to the wreck
Admiral John Magar, a member of the Unified Titan Search Command, said he was pleased to see a British submarine involved in the search for the missing submarine.
“We are very fortunate to have world-class experts from a range of services contributing to the research,” he added in an interview with Sky News.
The presence of the British submarine, he said, “will help in this research to understand this complex undersea environment”.
“I greatly appreciate the support of the British Submarine Task Force,” he added.
Mauger said the “combined command” was made up of some with expertise from the US Coast Guard, US Navy, Canadian Coast Guard, Canadian Armed Forces, private sector and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
He also said that the equipment required for the search effort is currently under the sea.
“We have two rove submarines that are capable of operating on the ocean floor and are now operating on the ocean floor,” he said.
He said: “Both have the ability to take pictures with a camera, use sonar, and have transparent arms capable of attaching instruments, attaching a rescue line and moving any obstacles in the way, and most importantly, they are now at the bottom of the ocean, which is the equipment we need.”
“World-class Integrated Command experts are advising us,” he added.
Getting this equipment on site, he said, was a “very complex endeavor.”
“When we started as a unified command, there was no plan for it, no equipment that had been established before, and we had to start from scratch and gather the best available equipment as quickly as possible.”
But the search for the missing submarine with five people aboard could last only a few hours, experts say, on the fifth day of an intense international search across the vast Atlantic seaboard surrounding the Titanic.
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Oxygen may run out Thursday morning, but crews can control consumption in different ways
Titan, a small submersible operated by the US company Oceangate Expedition, began its descent to the seabed at 8am local time on Sunday, but lost contact with the support ship at the end of its two-hour dive to reach the wreckage. It is a century old.
After launch, enough air was charged for 96 hours, according to the company.
It may have run out of oxygen tanks sometime Thursday morning. Whether the submarine’s occupants are still strong and calm, and if Titan is intact, experts say the exact timing depends on several factors.
Rescue crews and friends and relatives of the five Titan passengers received hope when the U.S. Coast Guard said Wednesday that a Canadian search plane using sonar buoys on Monday and Tuesday detected sounds coming from under the sea.
But the Coast Guard’s remote-controlled underwater search vehicles aimed at the noise detection point yielded no results, and officials said the sounds could not have come from the Titan.
Challenges and Hopes
“When you’re in the middle of a search and rescue operation, you always have hope,” Coast Guard Capt. Jamie Frederick said Wednesday, adding that the noise analysis was inconclusive.
Atlante, a French research vessel equipped with a robotic diving vehicle capable of reaching below the wreckage of the Titanic, which lies about 12,500 feet (3,810 meters) above the surface, has begun moving to the area.
Coast Guard Captain Frederick confirmed that the nature of the noise detected underwater was unknown.
The French robot, called the Vector 6000, has remote-controlled arms to help free a trapped vehicle or attach it to a ship to transport it.
The US Navy is deploying a special rescue system designed to lift large underwater objects.
Deep sea adventure
In 1912 the Titanic sank on its maiden voyage and then hit an iceberg, killing more than 1,500 people, 1,450 km east of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 640 km south of Saint John, Newfoundland.
The Titan took its captain and four others on board for a trip to the wreck of the deep-sea ship, a tourist adventure that Ocean Gate Expeditions charges $250,000 per person.
Among the passengers were British billionaire and adventurer Hamish Harding, 58, and Pakistani-born tycoon Shahjata Dawood, 48, and his 19-year-old son Sulaiman, both British citizens.
French oceanographer and Titanic expert Major Paul-Henri Narcolet, 77, and Stockton Rush, founder and CEO of Ocean Gate Expeditions, were also said to be on board the submarine. Rush married the daughter of two descendants of Titanic victims.
“We’re waiting impatiently, we can’t sleep,” said Matthew Johan, one of Henry’s relatives.
Sean Leet, president of a company that jointly owns the support vessel Polar Prince, said Wednesday that all protocols had been followed, but declined to say how the connection was interrupted.
“There’s still life support on the submarine, and we’ll be hopeful until the end,” Light added.
Questions about the Titan’s safety were raised in 2018 during a submarine industry experts’ seminar, and in a lawsuit filed by Oceangate’s former head of naval operations, they were resolved later that year.
Even if crews find Titan, recovering it will present major challenges in terms of transportation and shipping.
If the submarine returns to the surface, it will be difficult to find at sea and will be sealed from the outside so that those inside cannot get out unaided.
And if the submarine Titan were at the bottom of the ocean, rescue teams would have to deal with great pressures and total darkness at that depth. Titanic expert Tim Mauldin says an undersea rescue is nearly impossible.
“The wreck of the Titanic is divided into two parts, surrounded by a cloud of debris – and finding the submarine is not easy,” said Jean Carey, an engineer who worked at the French research firm Evremer.
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Hebrew newspaper Maariv said on Friday that Israeli army chief Herzey Halevy informed US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken on Thursday that the war in Gaza would take more than a few weeks.
Halevy’s words came in response to Blinken’s question on the matter, the newspaper quoted two Israeli sources familiar with Thursday’s meeting with the Israeli military cabinet in West Jerusalem.
He said: “Blinken raised the issue on his own initiative, and how long the Israeli army’s operation in Gaza is expected to continue in its current scope, which includes very large ground forces.”
According to the newspaper: “Blinken explained that (US President Joe) Biden’s administration is concerned that continued Israeli military action in Gaza, especially with the scale and intensity it is currently taking, will significantly increase international pressure. On Israel and America.”
He continued: “According to the sources, Blinken asked Israel to take additional measures to ensure that the operation in the southern Gaza Strip does not cause serious harm to civilians.”
It reported that Halevy responded that “the IDF’s operation in Gaza, including in the southern region, is expected to continue for more than a few weeks.”
Maariv pointed out that the Biden administration “has yet to call for a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip, or demand that Israel cease military action.”
He added: “But there is deep concern in Washington about the resumption of military action in the Gaza Strip after the (temporary) ceasefire that ended on Friday morning, especially about the (anticipated) Israeli military action in the south of the Gaza Strip, home to two million Palestinians.
He added: “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and Levy told Blinken that ground operations in southern Gaza would be less harmful to civilians than airstrikes.”
On Friday morning, a temporary cease-fire in the Gaza Strip ended on November 24 with Qatari-Egyptian mediation and lasted for 7 days, during which prisoners were exchanged and humanitarian aid brought into the enclave of about 2.3 million people. Palestinians.
During the pre-ceasefire round, the Israeli military repeated its messages, which asked residents of the northern Gaza Strip to move to the southern Gaza Strip, but targeted the displaced in areas and roads it said were “safe”. It committed documented massacres, which met with international and international condemnation.
Since last October 7, Israel has been waging a devastating war in the Gaza Strip that has caused massive infrastructural destruction and tens of thousands of civilian casualties, most of them children and women, in addition to an unprecedented humanitarian disaster, according to an official Palestinian official. and UN
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12/1/2023–|Last Updated: 12/1/202308:56 AM (Makkah Time)
4 Palestinians were killed and several others injured in attacks by the Israeli occupation army in different areas of Gaza.Clashes erupted on multiple axes in the area minutes after the end of a week-long humanitarian ceasefire. And its extension has not been announced.
Al Jazeera’s correspondent in Gaza reported martyrs and wounded as a result of an Israeli attack targeting a house in central Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.
The 4-day ceasefire that started last Friday was extended twice and ended today at 7 am local time.
The Israeli military said it had resumed operations against the Palestinian Islamist movement (Hamas) in Gaza, accusing the movement of violating ceasefire terms and firing into Israel. Gaza
The Israeli military confirmed that its warplanes were bombing all areas of the Gaza Strip, and military radio quoted a senior political source as saying, “We are back to fighting with full force and no negotiations have been held to release the abductees.”
Al Jazeera’s correspondent monitored the Israeli offensive in the northwest of the Gaza Strip and artillery attacks targeting various parts of Gaza City. He confirmed that clashes broke out between the opposition and occupation forces in more than one area in Gaza City and the northern Gaza Strip. He said the Israeli strike targeted a site near Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.
The reporter confirmed that casualties were reported as a result of Israeli strikes and artillery fire in various parts of Gaza.
The government media office in Gaza announced a series of raids targeting the south of the Strip, while Gaza’s Interior Ministry confirmed that Israeli aircraft had targeted the town of Abasan east of Khan Yunis and a house in the Abu Iskandar area in the northwest. of Gaza City.
The seven-day ceasefire allowed for the exchange of prisoners from occupied prisons to Palestinian prisoners in Gaza, and facilitated the entry of humanitarian aid into the Strip.
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The International Criminal Court announced Thursday that public prosecutor Karim Khan traveled to Israel “at the request and invitation” of survivors and families of victims of the October 7 Hamas attack.
The court explained through the “X” site that the visit was “not investigative in nature” but it “represented an important opportunity to express sympathy and initiate dialogue for all the victims.”
Khan is scheduled to travel to Ramallah in the West Bank, where he will meet with senior Palestinian officials, the court said.
Since October 7, Israel has launched a military campaign in the Gaza Strip, killing more than 15,000 people, including more than 6,000 children.
The International Criminal Court, established in 2002 to prosecute the world’s worst atrocities, began investigating possible war crimes in the Palestinian territories in 2021, including possible crimes committed by Israeli forces, Hamas and other armed Palestinian factions.
Khan announced that his mandate would include crimes committed during the current war. But the tribunal’s teams could not enter Gaza and were not allowed to conduct trials in Israel, which is not a member of the tribunal.
The five signatories to the International Criminal Court’s founding treaty requested an inquiry into the “situation of the State of Palestine,” Khan announced, explaining that he had gathered “a large amount of information.” Both sides could face war crimes charges, legal experts said.
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