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Switch today at xfinitymobile.com. in our world lead now, less than 37 hours of breathable air estimated. that s all the coast guard estimates is left for the five people on board a submersible that disappeared on a voyage to visit the titanic wreckage at the bottom of the north atlantic. a massive search and rescue effort continues 900 miles east of cap cod to find the vessel. ....
On board is stockton rush, the ceo of ocean gate, the expedition company that operates the submersible. also with him are four other passengers. miguel marquez has the latest from newfoundland where the submersible started its journey. this is a complex search. reporter: a complex search now more complicated by time which they re running out of. we know there s about 40 hours of breathable air left. reporter: deep water submersibles and gear converging from the u.s. and canada in newfoundland. if the tight tan can be found thaw eel need to bring all resources to bear as quickly as possible. you re dealing with a surface search and sub surface search and frankly that makes it difficult. its last contact with the mother ship was an hour and 45 ....
We re standing by for any updates from the u.s. coast guard. any information we ll bring to you immediately. dana: we ll be paying a lot of attention to this today. thank you. bill: let s look at geography now. over the weekend, st. john s is where the initial trip disembarked from. we mentioned this a moment ago, 435 miles off that coast. 6:00 a.m. sunday morning is when the sub went into the water initially. it s important to mark because of the amount of oxygen stored inside of that submersible underneath the water. here is the far eastern tip of cape cod in massachusetts. draw a line 900 miles and that s where you find the location. that s the location for the titanic about 12,500 feet below the surface. that is what they re trying to reach. this is a quick look now at the ocean gate submersible. they made three trips already to the titanic. this would have been number ....
Ocean. took two and a half hours to go kind of straight down. i actually fell asleep on the trip down. that s how kind of relaxing and meditative the whole thing is. once you reach the ground, the ship is piloted by two things that look like a fan you would have on your desk. very simple and it is controlled by a joy stick from a gaming console so that even i was able to steer and navigate the submarine for a while. again, these are all to the good. simplicity would be having something overly complicated where you re at the mercy of technology nobody understands. yeah. you also talked on your pod cast about how you had to sign a waiver that warned you at least twice that you could die. i want to show this clip. cbs news reported on this ocean gate submersible and described ....