A former Navy submarine commander explains the challenges that the rescuers are up against in their search for the missing submarine near the Titanic.
NEW YORK --Former Navy Submarine Commander David Marquet told Eyewitness News, "I fear a catastrophic failure has incapacitated the crew because if they lost communication, the protocol would have been to go back up to the surface.""I'm thinking they are down on the bottom in the vicinity of the Titanic," Marquet said.If they had a power failure, they would be making sounds, "human-sounding sounds," Marquet said.
Then at the bottom, the sub wouldn't have gone too far from the Titanic, Marquet said, "But it's pitch black and you can't see very far." His comparison of the situation was bleak. "It's like taking a magnifying glass and walking down a football field looking at blades of grass on your hands and knees," he said.He said that the people aboard have no seats, and are sitting or laying uncomfortably on the ground.
However, there is a wind system device that they can mount to a boat with a long cable and he says that it is designed to pick up things that are heavier and deeper than the submarine. So that is at least a glimmer of hope.
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