The air-and-sea search for the submersible that went missing on a trip to view the wreckage of the Titanic is now looking underwater as well, the US Coast Guard said Tuesday.
Surface ships and planes looking for the small sub have now scoured an area of about 5,000 square miles (13,000 square km), Rear Admiral John Mauger, leading the search, told the ABC News program “Good Morning America.”
“Over the last three or four hours, we have flown multiple aircraft over the site looking for any signs of surfacing of the submersible,” Mauger said.
Mauger said a P-3 plane from Canada has dropped sonar buoys in the area of the wreckage in the North Atlantic to listen for any sound from the submersible, which went missing Sunday while carrying five people.
Now the search is going under water as well, he said.
All communication was lost with the 21-foot (6.5-meter) Titan craft during a descent Sunday to the Titanic, which sits at a depth of crushing pressure more than two miles below the surface of the North Atlantic.
“As we continue on with the search we are expanding our capabilities … So we have a commercial vessel that is on scene now that has remote-operated vehicles that will give us the ability to search under the water as well,” Mauger said.
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