Sonar picks up possible signs of life from Titan submersible

Sonar picked up sounds of banging during searches for the Titan submersible on Tuesday, CNN reported.

Other sounds were also picked up later in the day, giving hope that the five people lost on the sub could be located before their 96 hours of oxygen run out.

The OceanGate Expeditions sub, which carries tourists to see the Titanic shipwreck, was reported missing after it didn’t come back up when it was expected on Sunday, and a search and rescue mission was launched.

Who is on the sub?

Onboard the sub was OceanGate founder and CEO Stockton Rush, British billionaire Hamish Harding, Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman and French diver Paul-Henri Nargeolot.

The submersible is designed to allow passengers to survive underwater for 96 hours, meaning that in order to have a chance of being found alive, the passengers need to be rescued by the end of Wednesday.

Equipment that was flown in by U.S. Air Force transport planes is loaded onto the offshore vessel Horizon Arctic, before its deployment to the search area of a missing OceanGate Expeditions submersible which had been carrying five people to explore the sunken Titanic. (credit: REUTERS/DAVID HISCOCK)

The search and rescue mission is a joint operation of the US Coast Guard and the Canadian Coast Guard.

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