Washington (EFE) , when the initially estimated period for the ship’s oxygen to run out has passed.
According to the US coast guard, these are remotely controlled vehicles (ROV) from the Canadian ship “Horizon Arctic”, which is already on the seabed and is searching for the missing submersible, and the one provided by France on board the ship “The Atalante”
The French ROV, the Victor 6000, from the French Ifremer Research Institute has already arrived in the area together with a group of operators from the Toulon maritime base. It is capable of reaching 4,000 meters deep.
No oxygen inside the submersible
The lights and cameras that the Victor 6000 has on board will allow the team on the surface of the ship to see in real time what is at the bottom of the ocean and it has two mechanical arms capable of even removing debris.
After a Canadian P3 maritime patrol plane detected sounds of unknown origin, rescue teams decided to use these types of robot vehicles to analyze the seabed.
The operations take place 900 miles -1,448 kilometers- from Cape Cod (Massachussets, USA) and 400 -about 644 kilometers- from San Juan de Newfoundland (Canada).
In it, troops and resources from the US, Canada, France and the United Kingdom participate, with planes, boats and underwater drones.
The deployment of these new vehicles occurs when, theoretically, the oxygen inside the Titan submersible should have run out.