The U.S. Coast Guard was racing against time today to find a deep-diving submersible with five people on board two days after it went missing in the North Atlantic.
The challenges facing the search effort are immense: The submersible went missing in a remote patch of ocean, where the seafloor lies more than two miles below the choppy surface.
“There are so many things that can go wrong,” said my colleague William Broad, who has explored the ocean in a similar submersible.
“Communications can go out, as is clearly the case with the Titan submersible.
The scarier, worse things are the nonelectrical, mechanical breakdowns.
Persons:
”, William Broad
Organizations:
U.S . Coast Guard, North Atlantic, “ Communications, Titan
Locations:
North