There is thought to be less than 20 hours of oxygen left on the missing vessel
, businessman Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman, OceanGate’s chief executive and founder Stockton Rush and underwater explorer Paul-Henry Nargeolet..
“We remain focused on contributing to the search for the Titan crew and continue to hold out hope that they will be located and brought home safely.”Equipment used to search for missing vessel 'capable' of reaching depths of the sea However clearer conditions are predicted to spread over the search site over the next day as efforts continue to find the vessel.OceanGate runs 'extremely safe operation' says co-founder of Horizon Maritime Services
“Our emergency room is staffed 24/7 with a group of extremely capable people and there’s live communication with the vessel at all times. We’ve got 17 people onboard the ship.”The co-founder and chairman of Horizon Maritime Services, Sean Leet, has praised how quickly specialist marine craft have been scrambled to help in the search for the missing Titan vessel.
Captain Jamie Frederick, of the US Coast Guard, was asked if he could confirm a “rectangular object had been spotted”, and said: “Yesterday, one of the aircraft did see an object. Asked to describe what the noises sound like, Mr Hartsfield says they have been described as banging noises. But they have to put the whole picture together in context, he says, and they have to eliminate potential other man-made sources other than the Titan.
"There is stuff out in the ocean that is floating," he explained. "We went back, we looked at it, we didn't determine it to be debris, we don't think it correlates with the case. It is not uncommon during an active search to see things and then go and look at them."
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