Missing Titanic sub search continues as air supply onboard dwindles
Anderson Cooper 360
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🗓️ 21 June 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
A massive search operation continues to find the submersible with five people onboard that went missing on a trip to view the Titanic wreckage that sits at the bottom of the ocean nearly 13,000 feet underwater southeast of Newfoundland, Canada. The U.S. Coast Guard says they are working “around the clock” to try and find the missing sub. Per Wimmer is a self-described adventurer who has been involved with two missions attempting to reach the Titanic. He tells Anderson Cooper what he thinks may have happened to the submersible and says “time is the enemy” for those onboard.
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening tonight on 360. The race to prevent another Titanic disaster. |
| 0:05.4 | Five people in a tiny submersible last known where about 13,000 feet under the sea. |
| 0:10.2 | Some 33 hours of air left. Also, tonight, Hunter Biden's plea deal on tax and weapons |
| 0:15.3 | charges. Republicans say he got a sweetheart deal. Tonight, we look at the facts. |
| 0:19.2 | And the reported Kremlin plot to assassinate a high-ranking defector on American soil. |
| 0:24.0 | Tonight, with the CIA's former chief of rush operations, has to say about it. |
| 0:28.3 | Good evening. We begin tonight with the desperate search for the Ocean Gate Titan, |
| 0:32.4 | the experimental submersible essentially a miniature submarine with five people inside. |
| 0:37.4 | They'd hoped to visit the record of the Titanic sitting on the ocean floor in the North Atlantic, |
| 0:41.6 | but now they face a disaster of their own. Their air is slowly running out. |
| 0:45.9 | That is, if they are still alive. We simply do not know. All communications have been lost. |
| 0:51.4 | Even if the craft is somehow able to surface on its own, it can't be open from inside. |
| 0:56.5 | So rescuers would have to locate it before those on board run out of oxygen in some 33 hours. |
| 1:03.7 | This is what five people aboard the Missing Ocean Gate Titan are up against right now. |
| 1:07.3 | And what's searchers tonight know all too well. |
| 1:09.7 | Joining us from St. John's Newfoundland, where the Titan left on its mission to the Titanic, |
| 1:13.6 | CNN's Miguel Marquez. Miguel? |
| 1:18.2 | Anderson, I want to sort of set the scene here for you. This is the dock where the polar |
| 1:22.4 | prince that took the Titan out to where it is right now left from. This is the sister ship to it. |
| 1:29.6 | They have been furiously working on the ship. We expect that this ship is going to receive lots |
| 1:35.0 | of the gear that is making its way to St. John's. This is a very small town on the very edge of Canada, |
| 1:42.3 | and it is still 400 miles from here to the search area. But right now it is a race against absolute |
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