A significant update has emerged amid the race to find the missing Titanic deep-sea vessel.
U.S. Coast Guard officials have shared that a Canadian aircraft was redirected to a particular part of the search area after it “detected underwater noises in the search area.”
“As a result, ROV operations were relocated in an attempt to explore the origin of the noises,” their June 21 statement shared to Twitter read. “Those ROV searches have yielded negative results but continue.”
They continued, “Additionally, the data from the P-3 aircraft has been shared with our U.S. Navy experts for further analysis which will be considered in future search plans.”
The update from officials comes just hours after they held a briefing amid the search, with officials sharing that there’s an estimated 40 hours of oxygen left in the submarine as of June 20, based on an initial report.
The development in the rescue efforts comes three days after the 21-foot submersible and its five passengers disappeared during a mission to explore the wreckage of the RMS Titanic, which sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in 1912.
