The submersible is predicted to have approximately 9 hours and 30 minutes of oxygen remaining. What’s even more disheartening is that the journey back to the surface is expected to take around 8 hours, so there may only be 1 hour and 30 minutes left before even a rescue operation wouldn’t save the passengers.
Additional Info:
– Banging noises were also heard on Wednesday, as well as Tuesday.
– There is NO hatch on the inside of the submersible, meaning that even if the sub is floating on the surface, they cannot get out.
– If a miraculous rescue were to occur, it would be the deepest ocean rescue operation in HISTORY.
– The wife of the missing OceanGate CEO, Wendy Rush, is the great-great-grandchild of Titanic victims Isidor and Ida Straus.
– The stepson of the British Billionaire, Hamish Harding, who went missing, posted a tweet of himself at a Blink 182 concert and asked an OnlyFans star to sit on his face, while his stepfather is MISSING. This has led to him receiving heavy backlash, as many people believe he’s showing a lack of remorse.
– One theory is that Nargeloet, one of the people onboard the sub, who has previously made 37 dives to the wreck, may have convinced the crew to sleep and make a banging noise every 30 minutes. He would do this in order to show rescue teams that the noise had a regular pattern, therefore likely indicating human activity, and also the sleeping would preserve oxygen in the submersible.
– The image of the missing submersible along with the CEO, who’s part of the missing crew, is shown below. The image demonstrates how small it is. It’s only 22 feet by 9.2 feet by 8.3. You have to sit crisscross applesauce with your shoes off.
– It has a carpeted floor instead of seats and barely enough room inside for more than one person at a time to stretch out. There is a “toilet” with a curtain for privacy.
– It’s constructed of multiple different materials that all expand and contract differently depending on temperature (subs are usually built using one material for this reason).
– Reports have mentioned the handles and railings inside the submersible were purchased at a camping store.
While the situation is extremely saddening, do you still have faith in the passengers BEING FOUND ALIVE?