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We are, you know, you are talking about a search area thats 900 miles east of cape cod, 400 miles south of st. johns, logistically speaking, its hard, takes coordination and dealing with a surface search and a subsurface search and that makes it an incredibly complex operation. >> will the u.s. navy or the canadian navy be able to get salvage equipment on time before the air runs out? >> obviously getting salvage equipment on scene is a top priority. unified command is working through that to pr...

Crewmembers, theirfamilies and prayers for the five crewmembers, their families and their loved ones. 0ur crews are working around the clock to ensure we are doing everything possible to locate the titan and the five crewmembers. yesterday, we set up a unified command consisting of expertise in the united states coastguard, the united states navy, canadian armed forces and coastguard and the titans parent company ocean gate expedition. this is a complex search effort that requires multiple agenc...

Though, or coming from the pacific, for example? >> no, so some of the equipment thats coming is coming from the east coast, but again, we are talking about very heavy equipment, its a complicated transport operation, but the best professionals in the world are working it and u.s. transcom. >> the equipment, [inaudible] since you dont have it, the vessel -- commissioned, what other assets you have? civilian ships. >> there are several civilian ships that have offered services heading that way. a...

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Rescue, we dont have all the necessary means required in search of this nature. the unified command brings that expertise and additional capability together to maximise effort in solving this very complex problem. as a recap, on sunday, the coordination command centre in boston received a report from the vessel, polar prince, with five people on the board postpone. people on the board approximately one hour and a5 minutes into the scheduled dive, the polar prince lost all communication with the ...

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Thats why we are spending so much time and energy trying to co—ordinate this enormous response effort to truly understand the scale of how far away this truly is. and in the context of the types of assets that we can get out there over something thats that enormous is something larger than the state of connecticut, and the perspective of connecticut, and the perspective of what is available to be able to search in those conditions so far offshore. 900 miles. it is an enormous amount of distanc...

Something? >> each of the rovs -- thats a vague question. the current rov has some limited capability, a camera on board, but again, each of those is different and well be gathering more information as that operation goes on through the day. >> captain, how many hours -- >> abc news. if your submersibles can find this sub, is there any way to retrieve it and save the people on board. >> all our efforts are focussed on finding the sub. we have a group of our nations best experts in the unified co...

Or so, if you were to find the submersible at this moment, would that give you enough time to save these five people on board? >> yeah, so i dont know the answer to that question. what i will tell you is we will do everything in our power to affect a rescue. again, it is going to depend on if the rov finds something, it is going to depend on what they find, what needs to be -- what steps need to be taken next and really that is for the experts in the unified command to take a look at and then de...

Additional coast guard cutters. we hope to have a canadian coast guard cutter on scene this evening. we hope they can assume on scene commander. polar prince has been doing a great job with those duties. if we take some of that from them, that would be good. your question about specific equipment. i wont get into specific equipment. im not an expert on what that equipment is, but we have experts in the unified command that are going through that, prioritizing what we need and how we get it on sc...