The search for the Titan submarine in the depths of the Atlantic, at the site of the Titanic, continues unabated. Anxiety continues to mount for the lives of those on board as time passes, with less than 30 hours remaining until the submarine runs out of oxygen.
The submarine, which is owned by OceanGate Expeditions, began its dive on Sunday before losing contact two hours later, authorities said. Scenarios for what happened vary and experts speculate. However, as time passes and searches remain fruitless, the hope of finding them alive diminishes. On his part, Dr. David Gallo, an American oceanographer who is regarded worldwide as an authority on underwater exploration and a close friend of Paul-Henri Narzolet, Titan's operator, said that "it is very likely that it was torn apart from the inside, so that an explosion, which would be catastrophic ".
As noted by Dr. Gallo, since Titan's communication with the support ship was lost 1 hour and 45 minutes after it plunged toward the wreck of the Titanic at a depth of about 3,800 meters, "it is likely that something unexpected happened in the middle of the Titan's dive, as it would it took about 2 hours to reach the remains of the Titanic. So something happened that caused the Titan to lose communication or even power before reaching the ruins. Even from something like this, that is, an intervention, at such great depths, there is no return", added the scientist. As he said, it's broken, but as a scientist he has to highlight the most likely interpretation of the data so far.
“Unfortunately, the destruction of Titan by some kind of material failure might just be the No. 1 scenario right now, as unpleasant as you think. Personally, I don't know any other way in which the submarine could have disappeared so quickly."