The Coast Guard is not sure what was making the noise detected by aircraft searching for the missing submarine, meaning it is not yet known whether the trapped crew members on board the submarine had made the noise.
Capt. Jamie Frederick delivered an update on the missing submarine during a press briefing on Wednesday afternoon and stated that a Canadian aircraft had detected noises in the missing submarine's search area on Tuesday. The Coast Guard has since relocated its operations to explore the origins of the noises, according to NTD News.
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"With respect to the noises specifically, we don't know what they are, to be frank with you," Frederick said. "The P3 detected noises, that's why they're up there, that's why they're doing what they're doing, that's why they put sonar buoys in the water."
Frederick added that the searchers for the missing sub will "continue" to look in the area where the sounds were located and that additional remote operated vehicles will arrive at the area on Thursday morning. Additionally, Frederick said the Coast Guard is hoping they can get additional remote operated vehicles to search in the area where the search was originally taking place.
The Coast Guard's statement comes after emails sent to Department of Homeland Security leadership revealed that a rescue operation by a Canadian aircraft with underwater detection capabilities detected "banging" in 30-minute intervals coming from the area where the divers disappeared. Additional sonar was deployed, and banging was still heard four hours later.
Frederick said he "hadn't heard" 30-minute intervals when asked about the intervals by a reporter, noting that "the important piece" is that the searchers are looking in the place where the noise was detected.
Titan, the Cyclops-class manned submersible that has gone missing, was designed and built by OceanGate, Inc., for "site survey and inspection, research and data collection, film and media production, and deep sea testing of hardware and software," according to the company.
While it has been touted by the company as a state-of-the-art machine, experts and observers expressed concerns about several technical features, including in a letter sent by the Marine Technology Society in which it expressed its "unanimous concern" regarding OceanGate's decision to forgo DNV-GL class rules.
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The remains of the Titanic are located in the Atlantic Ocean, roughly 370 miles south of Newfoundland, Canada, and the shipwreck is about 2.4 miles underneath the surface of the water. The submersible left for its expedition on Sunday morning, but it lost contact with a Canadian research vessel roughly 1 hour and 45 minutes after the dive began.
The five people on board the vessel include Hamish Harding, the chairman of Action Aviation; Shahzada Dawood, the vice chairman of Engro Corporation Limited; Dawood's son Suleman; Paul-Henri Nargeolet, a diver and Titanic researcher and director of underwater research at RMS Titanic; and OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush.