Only SIX HOURS of oxygen left in the missing Titanic submersible Photos: Twitter/@OceanGateExped
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The five people in the Titanic submersible are in a dire situation. They have only a few hours of oxygen left. Will the submersible be found?
Only SIX HOURS of oxygen left in the missing Titanic submersible Photos: Twitter/@OceanGateExped
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The five people in the Titanic submersible are in a dire situation. They have only a few hours of oxygen left, and the submersible will take 8 hours to return to the surface.
This means that they could run out of oxygen before they can reach the surface.
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They could make it if they can conserve their oxygen and the rescue teams can find them quickly.
However, the odds are stacked against them. The submersible is located in a remote area of the Atlantic Ocean, and the search teams are facing challenging conditions.
The weather is bad, and the visibility is poor. The search teams are using sonar and other equipment to try to find the submersible, but it is difficult to track down a small object in such a vast area.
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The five people on board the submersible are experienced divers, but they are still facing a very dangerous situation.
They are running out of oxygen, and they are in a hostile environment. The chances of them making it are slim, but the rescue teams are doing everything they can to find them.
Here are some factors that could affect the outcome of the rescue:
The rescue teams are working tirelessly to find the submersible and the five people on board.
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According to reports, the following people have been confirmed on board:
A five-person crew on a submersible named Titan, owned by OceanGate Expeditions, submerged on a dive to the Titanic wreckage site Sunday morning, and the crew of the Polar Prince research ship lost contact with the sub about an hour and 45 minutes later, the U.S. Coast Guard said Monday afternoon.
The sub was lost in an area about 900 miles east of Cape Cod, in the North Atlantic, in water with a depth of about 13,000 feet. It had less than 40 hours of breathable air left as of Tuesday evening.
A submersible is different from a submarine in a few key ways:
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