What It's Like Inside The Submersible That's Lost In The Atlantic
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🗓️ 20 June 2023
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CBS Sunday Morning correspondent David Pogue was aboard the same vessel to take the same voyage last year. He says its interior is the size of a minivan, it's built with a combination of off-the-rack and highly technical components and it has a hatch that's bolted shut from the outside.
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| 0:00.0 | In the search and rescue operation for a missing submersible in the North Atlantic right |
| 0:11.0 | now, time is measured in breathable air. |
| 0:15.2 | And there's not much left on the 22 foot vessel known as the Titan, wherever the Titan |
| 0:20.3 | might be. |
| 0:21.3 | We know at this point we're approximately about 40, 41 hours. |
| 0:25.6 | That is US Coast Guard Captain Jamie Fredrick at about 1 p.m. Eastern time on Tuesday, |
| 0:31.2 | which means the five people aboard the Titan could run out of air before 6 a.m. on Thursday. |
| 0:37.8 | The vessel lost contact with its support ship on Sunday. |
| 0:40.9 | It was run by a company called Oceangate, which offers exclusive, high-priced tours to |
| 0:46.5 | visit the wreckage of the Titanic more than two miles below the ocean surface. |
| 0:51.3 | It's basically imagining a spacecraft disappeared on the far side of the moon. |
| 0:56.6 | That's David Marquet. |
| 0:57.6 | He's a retired US Navy submarine captain. |
| 1:00.0 | Hey, you have to find it. |
| 1:02.0 | B, you have to get to it. |
| 1:04.0 | Even when you get to it, you still need to somehow get the people out of there to safety. |
| 1:09.8 | Marquet told MPR on Tuesday morning that chances of survival at this point are very low. |
| 1:15.2 | I'm hopeful, but I think the family should prepare themselves for bad news. |
| 1:18.7 | I would say at this point about 1%. |
| 1:24.4 | Consider this. |
| 1:25.6 | As the search for the Titan continues, attention is beginning to turn to the vessel's operator |
| 1:30.1 | and its safety protocols. |
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