Let's go now to CNN's Jason Carroll.
He is live for us in Boston,
which is where the U.S.
Coast Guard is communicating.
What is going on
with this rescue from Jason?
What is the plan
as we have 14 to 15 hours?
Of course, that is just an estimate
right.
And the plan
quite simply is to keep going
as they have been going, Brianna.
You know, when asked about that,
what happens when the clock runs out
so to speak?
I mean, and the Coast Guard
making it very clear
this is a search and rescue operation.
And that's how
he basically
answered the question to that.
But there was a lot of
there were a lot of questions
specifically about
the noises
that have been heard,
especially what we heard about yesterday,
that Canadian aircraft
dropping that sonar buoy
and picking up
banging noises, if you will.
Those same banging noises,
it was revealed
this afternoon were also picked up again,
this morning also by sonar buoys.
And so then that raises some questions.
What more can you tell us
about these particular sounds?
And so that's what I asked
the captain there
and he said, quote,
I just don't know
what they are at this point.
And so then you have to ask yourself.
So what are they doing about these sounds
while they've sent it
additional resources into the area
where these sounds were detected?
And what they've done is
they've taken
that acoustical information.
They've sent it to the U.S.
Navy for analysis
so they can go over it
and try to determine is it human sound?
Is it someone
knocking, trying to
indicate that they are alive or is it
some other sound from the ocean?
Is it from the wreckage
settling near the Titanic
or some other noise?
This is what the experts
have to determine, which is why the U.S.
Coast Guard
is offering caution at this point.
But you also heard offering hope
because that was also a question.
What would you say then
to the family members
who are waiting to hear some sort of word
and the word is they are
they are going to continue
to send
as many resources into the area,
continue to offer hope.
Brianna.
Yeah, they there could still be time.
And so they need to proceed
as if there could still be time.
Jason Carroll live for us in Boston,
thank you for us.
As the hours passed
and the oxygen on board,
the vessel begins to dwindle,
this is an all hands on deck effort.
CNN's Miguel
Marquez is live in Saint
John's port
where the Canadian Coast Guard
is headquartered.
Miguel, what more are Canadian
officials saying at this hour?
Well.
Horizon Maritime just
held a little press statement
and then took some questions
from the press
outside their offices here.
This is the company
that has the polar prince.
This is the ship
that they do
a range of different things,
everything from oil exploration,
exploitation and gas
and
they
they were talking about the polar prince,
that is the ship
that took the submersible out there.
It is now participating
in the search as well.
And the
the the other ship that they have,
the Horizon Arctic that was ported here.
And then there were three U.S.
military C-17s that flew in yesterday.
There was a ton of gear in that,
including a deepwater
remote operated vehicle
that is now on that ship
and headed out to the search area,
as well as a Coast Guard ship here.
It is just it's full on.
It's going to be ten ships out there.
In the next 24 to 48 hours.
They know that there is a
time issue because of the air
issue that that that the submersible has.
But my sense is
is that they want to keep looking
for every possible second.
That's why
these despite
how small the sliver of hope is given
these sounds that they've heard yesterday
and today,
that's where
they are focusing their search right now
because that's
the one thing that they can do.
And they just have a massive amount
of gear out there right now and hoping
even if it probably goes past
the time that they know
that they have no more air.
They will continue to search in the hope
that somehow
they have survived and they can bring
bring them home to their families.
Back to you.
Miguel Marquez
in Saint John's, Newfoundland.
Thank you. So much, Jim.
This is an unprecedented effort.
No question.
Joining us to talk
more about the search efforts
and what hopefully
at some point would be rescue
efforts is retired
Navy Captain Chip McCord.
Good to have you on, sir.
I wonder if you could help us understand
the significance as we know it
of the noises
that have been heard so far.
Because if you listen to that Coast
Guard press conference earlier today,
they say in so many words,
they don't truly know what the
noises are. They have hope.
They had been described
by some as banging,
although the
Coast Guard captain wasn't certain.
That's what it was, was uncertain also.
The timeframe as described
was that every 30 minutes
or some other indeterminate timeframe
based on what you've heard.
Do you believe they have a reliable
potential contact
with the missing submarine?
Jim, I think I would agree
with a Coast Guard captain
that says that
they don't exactly know what they have.
So I guess I would leave it at that.
They're
all out there looking at it
and we could put some conjecture into it.
But if they knew for sure that it was
someone banging on a hole with an S.O.S.,
they would have known.
So I think right now
the answer is for us out here.
They really don't know what they have.
Okay.
And that's important
for expectations management,
but it is apparently the best they have.
So you have this indicator
here, indeterminate one.
You throw everything you can at
What is the stage now?
You're going to still be listening with
what are effectively sub
hunting aircraft,
the threes and the eights.
There's also side
scan sonar that's going out there.
Can you
search area
twice the
size of Connecticut quickly
to kind of zero in on
something like this?
I don't think they really need on
the underwater portion
of it,
the search area, twice
the size of Connecticut.
It's probably
probably no more than a mile or two miles
by two miles on the bottom,
which is most likely
the place
where the submersible is most likely.
It's not on the surface
or I think it would have been spotted.
And it's very, very highly unlikely
that it's in the water
column between the bottom of the surface
or most likely it's on the bottom.
And again,
the currents aren't that great down here.
So most likely
it's pretty close to the area
where they decided to.
Interesting. So that's.
So that search area,
that's the surface search area,
you're saying that based on
what they know,
they can probably
and I know there are no certainties here,
but but but
greatly narrowed
that search area
to a couple of miles,
if that is the case.
How quickly do you search that area?
A large area.
It's a large area on the surface
because there's currents
and tides on the surface.
So if they were on the surface,
it would have floated on the bottom.
It's not going to float down there.
And is it based on what,
you know, more likely
that this thing is on the bottom
as opposed to floating halfway
up or on the surface
Oh, absolutely, yes.
And the reason
it's still on the bottom is, you know,
it might have had an electrical failure.
It might not have been able
to offload ballast on it
to help it raise.
It might be caught under something
or it could have crushed,
you know, had a structural failure.
Okay.
If it was not crushed
and if it is still
a livable space in there.
Can you bring it up?
I mean, it's a very practical question.
Can you and if you can, how quickly
Okay.
So the U.S.
Navy, who is out there,
supervisor salvage
officers out there,
they have experience doing this
and a lot of experience
in the last two years.
They recovered a f 35 from
like 12,500 feet of water.
That's a fighter jet
in an MH 60 helicopter from 19,000
feet of water.
So they
basically both aircraft were intact
and they recovered them.
They normally don't go real fast
when they're doing it that they
they don't go slow
because they're not
there's normally
not a case of someone being alive
and in what they're recovering.
And so it's a pretty
step by step process.
The way they do that is that they search,
find the item that they're looking for,
which again, is the key in this situation
right now
with the submersible,
inspect it with an ROV
and then probably hook a line on to it
and recover it with a line again.
Let's
make sure we understand that it's two
and a half miles deep.
Very few vehicles
manned or unmanned can go down that deep.
When you
put a
line down there on it, it's
a two and a half mile long line.
And so the surface
ship is going up and down.
And so the Navy has a special system
that that line is routed around
a poorly on top of a basically
a big shock absorber.
So so there's not
a snap load on the line.
And again,
they have a lot of experience doing that.
It's just a matter of timing.
I believe that Photosystem is out there.
I believe the Navy's
vehicle, again,
there's other vehicles
that can work at depths.
These underwater vehicles are designed
to do certain things that
so the Navy's vehicle
is designed to do cell recovery
at certain at depths.
Let me ask you this.
Other people's
ROV is
may not be designed
to do that sort of thing.
You say they've done this before
with an F 35 with it, with a helicopter.
But but those did not have living human
beings on them.
Has anyone ever successfully covert
recovered people from
depths this far down
I don't believe from death.
I know the boy I'm trying to remember.
Back in the seventies,
there was a submersible down in Florida.
Boy, and I'm sorry
for drawing a blank on this,
but I think they
recovered the people from that
No, not not at this.
That again,
there's very few things
that can go down there
to get them.
And it's very time
consuming to get all the
equipment on site,
put it on board a ship
secure it to the ship, basically.
Well, shut down
so that when you go out
to sea, these things don't fall around.
You got a lot of equipment,
kind of thick cargo boxes of stuff.
You know, the ROV is the size of a
a small cargo van or a cargo van
is cable is, you know, 20,000 feet
and the cables,
two inches,
an inch
and half of two inches in diameter.
And you got, you know,
three and a half miles of that.
So all these things add up to a large
surface area on board
the ship
that it's got to be loaded on to it.
Yeah. Listen, those are the challenge.
And then once you get it on in the fourth
there's steam out to the side.
Yeah.
Well, we know it's difficult.
We can only
we know they're doing their best
and we can only hope they're successful.
Captain Chip McCord, thanks so much.