The search for a small submersible that was heading to the site of the wreck of the Titanic is continuing on Monday, with additional resources being brought in to help.
Posted: Jun 19, 2023 10:06 AM EDT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago
"Our entire focus is on the crew members in the submersible and their families," OceanGate wrote in a statement earlie on Monday.The submersible was reported missing after it was overdue by a couple of hours on Sunday evening, according to Chief Mi'sel Joe, head of the Mi'kmaq band that owns the Polar Prince, the ship that launched it"Your mind wanders to what could have happened, but we just don't know," Joe said. "We just pray that everyone is OK.
"My thoughts and prayers are with everyone … all the people in the sub and the people that are out there looking," Daley said Monday afternoon. "I'm very optimistic that this will come to a very happy ending, and I'm hopeful that it will." "It is a challenge to conduct a search in that remote area. But we are deploying all available assets to make sure that we can locate the craft and rescue the people on board," he said.
"We're using that time, making the best use of every moment of that time to locate the vessel," he said."The energy level is high. The adrenaline is through the roof. Everybody is up on dock and on watch using every available piece of equipment and all eyes," he said. "Everybody is looking."He spoke with CBC News in April, saying it was the earliest the expeditions had gone ahead.
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