The search continues for the tourist submersible that makes trips to visit the remains of the Titanic belonging to the OceanGate company.
about to run out oxygen inside of the titan submarine missing since sunday with five crew on boardSeveral hypotheses arose about what happened in deep waters.
The adventurers plunged into four kilometers deep for search for the remains of the Titanicthe ocean liner sunk in 1912.
The search and rescue efforts intensified in the last hours, the Coast Guard The US said that four other ships are expected to arrive, including the Canadian military Glace Bay, which has medical personnel and a hyperbaric chamber used to treat people involved in diving accidents.
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What could have caused the disappearance?
One of the big problems of the search device Titan it is because I don’t really know where to lookDue to the zone dimension and that it is not possible to know exactly where it is, if it ascended again or if it continued its descent after lose communication.
The main hypothesis of what happened may be related to the attempt to return the submarine to the surface due to a failure or some complication in the descent.
In this sense, the academic Alistair Greig from University College London, asked the BBC various scenarios Which can explain what happened:
- The Titan could have tried to surface for some emergency. “If there had been an electrical or communication failure, it could have happened, but the submarine would have remained on the surface floating waiting to be found,” explains Greig.
- In case the hull of the submarine was damaged and suffer leaks the prognosis is not favorable. If the submarine cannot ascend under its own power, options are very limited. “It may still be intact, but if it’s deeper than 200 meters, there are very few ships that can go that deep to retrieve it. Vehicles designed for submarine rescue cannot go as deep as the Titanic is.” , Add.
Other alternatives that are being analyzed is that it has been dragged to the seabed, at a depth of more than 6,000 meters, by an unexpected current. Nor is it ruled out that the ship has suffered a failure and has sunk on the spot. Lastly, one option is that she may have been clogged with wreckage from the Titanic.
Source: Ambito
