Experts, however, said it was possible that the diesel-electric submarine's oxygen supply might last as many as 10 days in the case of a battery failure as reported by the boat's captain in his last communication. Balbi agreed. "The seven days is not dogmatic. It varies according to the...
run out of oxygen this morning. This estimate of 96 hours is coming from an assumption of an average consumption rate. There's not very many things average about being stuck in a submarine. The search area on the surface doubled in size yesterday to roughly 20,000 square miles. It's li...
If the submersible remains submerged, then it is in water that is 2.5 miles deep. Airplanes can drop sonobuoys—small buoys that detect sound or emit sonar to locate objects developed for anti-submarine warfare—to help their search. But the submersible appears to not be emitting any signal, ...