US Coastguard says operation to find missing submersible is "still an active search and rescue"

Global News Podcast

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🗓️ 22 June 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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A French ship carrying a deep-sea diving robot has reached search area. Also, the US's agency for international development says broken ceasefires in Sudan are preventing aid reaching millions of people, and Barbados calls for reforms to institutions such as the World Bank and the IMF to help climate change.

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0:00.0	This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.
0:05.1	I'm Charlotte Gallagher and 1300 hours GMT on Thursday, the 22nd of June. These are our main
0:12.0	stories. A search operation is continuing in the North Atlantic for the missing tourist submersible
0:17.6	Titan. The head of America's Development Agency, USAID, says the repeated breaking of ceasefires in
0:24.4	Sudan is keeping aid from millions of people. Poor countries could get access to hundreds of
0:31.3	billions of dollars to tackle climate change if world leaders reach an agreement during talks in Paris.
0:40.0	Also in this podcast, coming from the different islands we have done a lot in this country.
0:47.2	I would say as I normally say we have put the great in Britain.
0:52.0	How the UK was changed forever by a ship called Windrush.
1:00.4	As we record this podcast, efforts to locate the missing tourist submersible near the wreck of
1:06.0	the Titanic in the North Atlantic Ocean are continuing. The US Coast Guard has doubled the
1:11.5	search area and a French ship with a robot that can reach the seabed nearly four kilometres down
1:17.8	is on site to assist search and rescue efforts. Captain David Marquet is a former submarine captain
1:24.3	in the US Navy. I'm confident that if it's found we'll be able to get that equipment down there.
1:30.2	It consists of ROVs and cables. I mean designed exactly for this. It's designed exactly to pull
1:36.4	something from deep in the ocean. It's designed for something that's two two and a half times heavier
1:40.8	than this. So it should be able to get it up out of the bottom. But we got to find it first. That's
1:45.1	the big problem. Ocean Fanning has been on board the Titans of Mercible twice before. He explains
1:51.6	what the safety procedures are like. You have before traveling at all we were having zoom calls
1:57.0	about safety and procedures and everything else. When we arrived there for the two days on the way
2:01.9	out on the main ship again we had drill after drill after drill. As a client you'd actually tend to get
2:07.2	a bit forward. They'll come on another session but they implement them very strongly. Our correspondent
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