find a creature 22 feet long Giant The submarine that went missing on June 18th is a desperate race against time. Equipped with four electric thrusters and traveling at a maximum speed of 3 knots, the ship lost contact with surface ships. polar prince, about 105 minutes go diving.of Giant was heading for the wreckage of Titanic, approximately 375 nautical miles from Newfoundland, Canada. If the submarine is still intact, she has only two days’ worth of air on board.
The ship is packed with five people. Stockton Rush is the president and founder of submarine exploration company Oceangate. Pilot Paul Nargiolet. British billionaire Hamish Harding. Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and her son Sulaiman.because GiantBy design, they are unable to free themselves. They are bolted to the ship from the outside. Rescuers therefore need to be spotted quickly as they may run out of oxygen even if they reach the surface.
“We know where we launched the submarine, the direction the submarine was going, and they were chasing it for an hour and a half,” said a former submarine officer and Australian Navy submarine escape and submariner. Frank Owen, the person responsible for the escape, said. He currently works for his Sonartech Atlas, a sonar expert. However, hunting remains difficult, both due to the search range and the capriciousness of the sea.
According to MarineTraffic data, just before 9am ET on June 20th: 60 types of ships They were patrolling locations off the coast of Nova Scotia in search of submarines. These ships are washing the surface of the sea. In addition to boats, the U.S. Coast Guard sent two C-130 Hercules aircraft to search for the submarine from above, alongside Canadian C-130 and P8 planes. “The aircraft fly up and down the legs, backing each other, performing a grid search pattern and watching for submarines,” says Neville Yard, a submarine rescue expert with experience in the Royal Navy and NATO. To tell.About the rescue operation of the Russian submarine Kursk in 2000.
According to Owen, techniques for spotting vessels on the surface of the water are well known and proven. Ships and aircraft have infrared sensors, thermal vision, radar, and good old sight at their disposal. However, the effectiveness of these methods is weather dependent. “If the situation is relatively calm, [Titan] Since the submarine was able to reach the surface, it will be equipped with radar reflectors, radio transmitters and strobe lights to aid in visual searches,” he said. “But it’s still hard to find anything on the surface, especially if the surface is rough.” Yard agrees. “It’s like looking for a needle in a haystack,” he says. Even if he identifies where to look, he “still has a lot to cover.”
But if Giant According to Owen, staying under the surface exacerbates the problem. Some of his ships and aircraft, his P8, are equipped with sonar, but most of these can only search within relatively shallow waters. Sonar and oceanographic survey expert Mohamed Sanhaj said the “sonar system that acoustically images the ocean floor” will work down to about 2.25 miles, or about half the depth of the ocean floor. Titanic Shipwreck. Giant is designed to drop more than four miles below the surface, far beyond what most sonars can reach. “This kind of system is not very good at looking for something on the ocean floor,” says Owen.
