to the Titan — but were not approved to send the equipment until Wednesday, putting the estimated arrival time hours behind when the Titan’s emergency oxygen supply is due to expire.
In a statement provided to NPR, Pelagic said it was contacted by the search team on Monday, assembled its ROV crew and equipment within 23 hours, received U.S. Air Force transport to St. John’s in Newfoundland, Canada, mobilized onto the Canadian ship Horizon Arctic, and still only was able to deploy their ROV by early Thursday morning.When will the sub’s oxygen supply run out?
“We need to have hope,” he said in the Wednesday media briefing. He added that he wasn’t ready to speculate about when the search efforts might end.