1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:02,680 Speaker 1: The Citsy and with her with Kate Ritchie podcast. 2 00:00:03,200 --> 00:00:05,800 Speaker 2: Well, it is the story that everyone's been talking about 3 00:00:05,880 --> 00:00:07,360 Speaker 2: over the last twenty four hours. 4 00:00:07,560 --> 00:00:10,760 Speaker 1: This morning, Search Cruise racing against time to find that 5 00:00:10,840 --> 00:00:14,400 Speaker 1: missing submersible Roger Firefarm ready to do It takes about 6 00:00:14,440 --> 00:00:17,400 Speaker 1: two and a half hours to travel over two miles 7 00:00:17,480 --> 00:00:18,400 Speaker 1: deep under the sea. 8 00:00:18,640 --> 00:00:22,240 Speaker 3: The search has been refocused overnight after Cruise detected noises 9 00:00:22,440 --> 00:00:24,480 Speaker 3: and woul less than a day's worth of air. It 10 00:00:24,520 --> 00:00:28,120 Speaker 3: will require specialized equipment to reach and bring the vessel 11 00:00:28,280 --> 00:00:29,240 Speaker 3: back to the surface. 12 00:00:30,280 --> 00:00:34,040 Speaker 2: Channel seven News US bureau chief is David Woywater. He's 13 00:00:34,080 --> 00:00:36,640 Speaker 2: in Sint John's that is the town closest to the 14 00:00:36,680 --> 00:00:40,160 Speaker 2: search site, and he joins US Now, David, how much 15 00:00:40,240 --> 00:00:42,360 Speaker 2: time do they have left? How much oxygen do they 16 00:00:42,360 --> 00:00:42,840 Speaker 2: have left? 17 00:00:42,880 --> 00:00:46,600 Speaker 3: Dave according, guys, well, we're really entering into a fairly 18 00:00:46,760 --> 00:00:49,560 Speaker 3: critical phase of this operation now. It's kind of believe 19 00:00:49,600 --> 00:00:52,840 Speaker 3: that they probably have around twenty four hours or under 20 00:00:52,840 --> 00:00:54,920 Speaker 3: twenty four hours. Now, it's kind of hard to judge 21 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:58,560 Speaker 3: because we don't know exactly how much they had at 22 00:00:58,600 --> 00:01:00,680 Speaker 3: the very start and when they start and using that. 23 00:01:00,800 --> 00:01:03,400 Speaker 3: So we're sort of thinking around twenty four hours. Of course, 24 00:01:03,440 --> 00:01:06,920 Speaker 3: a lot of that is dependent on how much oxygen 25 00:01:06,959 --> 00:01:10,520 Speaker 3: they are using. Look, if they are agitated or panicked 26 00:01:10,560 --> 00:01:12,880 Speaker 3: in any way, they could be breathing faster and burning 27 00:01:12,880 --> 00:01:15,720 Speaker 3: through that supply a whole lot quicker. So it's incredibly 28 00:01:15,760 --> 00:01:19,240 Speaker 3: critical now that we have some form of breakthrough in this. 29 00:01:19,880 --> 00:01:22,080 Speaker 4: That's what was so disturbing when we saw the news 30 00:01:22,120 --> 00:01:24,920 Speaker 4: and we've been watching you obviously with all of your 31 00:01:24,920 --> 00:01:29,960 Speaker 4: crosses this morning, is the idea of trying to tell 32 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:34,760 Speaker 4: people that are trapped all that way down to stay calm. 33 00:01:34,840 --> 00:01:38,039 Speaker 4: I'm guessing those are the kind of conversations that would 34 00:01:38,080 --> 00:01:41,479 Speaker 4: be going on in there. What do you think would 35 00:01:41,520 --> 00:01:43,440 Speaker 4: be going on for them at the moment. They'd have 36 00:01:43,480 --> 00:01:46,240 Speaker 4: no idea what's going on above the surface. 37 00:01:46,920 --> 00:01:49,480 Speaker 3: No, that's right, okay, But look there's five of them 38 00:01:49,520 --> 00:01:53,400 Speaker 3: down there, and three of them are incredibly experienced ebotion 39 00:01:53,560 --> 00:01:57,120 Speaker 3: explorers and adventurers, so they sort of have a fairly 40 00:01:57,600 --> 00:02:00,280 Speaker 3: a good idea of what to do here. You the 41 00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:04,800 Speaker 3: risks going into this, so it's widely expected that they 42 00:02:04,840 --> 00:02:06,880 Speaker 3: will be doing all the right things to try and 43 00:02:06,920 --> 00:02:10,320 Speaker 3: preserve that oxygen supply right now, So little things like 44 00:02:10,520 --> 00:02:13,640 Speaker 3: just staying not moving too much. Of course, that the 45 00:02:13,680 --> 00:02:16,200 Speaker 3: craft itself is incredibly small, so there's not a lot 46 00:02:16,200 --> 00:02:18,440 Speaker 3: of movement to be had, but they will be coaching 47 00:02:18,480 --> 00:02:21,400 Speaker 3: each other through that they have been here before. In fact, 48 00:02:21,440 --> 00:02:24,200 Speaker 3: the British billionaire Hamish Harding, who's actually on board, he 49 00:02:24,440 --> 00:02:27,240 Speaker 3: was quoted in a podcast just a few weeks ago 50 00:02:27,280 --> 00:02:29,639 Speaker 3: actually saying, I know the risk if something goes wrong, 51 00:02:29,720 --> 00:02:32,639 Speaker 3: there's no one coming to get you. Well, something has 52 00:02:32,680 --> 00:02:34,720 Speaker 3: gone wrong and there's a whole lot of people out 53 00:02:34,720 --> 00:02:36,400 Speaker 3: there coming to get them, but whether or not they 54 00:02:36,400 --> 00:02:39,600 Speaker 3: can actually get to them is another matter right now. 55 00:02:39,639 --> 00:02:42,640 Speaker 3: So we've just seen in the last few hours one 56 00:02:42,680 --> 00:02:46,040 Speaker 3: of these Coast Guards ships carrying this specialized French equipment 57 00:02:46,080 --> 00:02:49,600 Speaker 3: that can actually get deep down enough to perhaps pick 58 00:02:49,639 --> 00:02:52,280 Speaker 3: them up. That has just taken off out through the 59 00:02:52,320 --> 00:02:54,320 Speaker 3: heads here. But that's going to be another twelve or 60 00:02:54,320 --> 00:02:57,120 Speaker 3: fifteen hours before it actually gets to the site. So 61 00:02:57,360 --> 00:03:00,120 Speaker 3: you say, race against the cloth. We're right there. We 62 00:03:00,160 --> 00:03:02,880 Speaker 3: still don't know exactly where they are. These crews. They're 63 00:03:02,919 --> 00:03:06,040 Speaker 3: searching this massive areas. That's why the size of the 64 00:03:06,120 --> 00:03:10,480 Speaker 3: US State of Connecticut stuff that's anything, It is absolutely 65 00:03:10,600 --> 00:03:13,400 Speaker 3: huge right now. But we have had a little bit 66 00:03:13,400 --> 00:03:16,000 Speaker 3: of a breakthrough. You might have seen these reports, these headlines. 67 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:18,960 Speaker 3: There's been some banging and knocking and other noises that 68 00:03:19,040 --> 00:03:22,280 Speaker 3: have been detected here. So that sort of helped to 69 00:03:22,320 --> 00:03:25,600 Speaker 3: hone and refine that search area just a little bit 70 00:03:26,120 --> 00:03:28,400 Speaker 3: and hopefully, you know, in the next few hours they 71 00:03:28,400 --> 00:03:30,600 Speaker 3: can get that breakthrough that they desperately need. 72 00:03:31,360 --> 00:03:34,280 Speaker 2: It's really interesting, David. I think that you know, with detection, 73 00:03:34,480 --> 00:03:37,400 Speaker 2: you would think it'd be quite easy with technology these days. 74 00:03:37,440 --> 00:03:40,920 Speaker 2: But there was a guy that's been down on this 75 00:03:41,040 --> 00:03:44,880 Speaker 2: submarine before, and he went down to the bottom to 76 00:03:44,960 --> 00:03:48,280 Speaker 2: see the Titanic, and he said, you're not even guaranteed 77 00:03:48,360 --> 00:03:51,400 Speaker 2: have a listened to this. This was his experience going 78 00:03:51,440 --> 00:03:53,600 Speaker 2: down on his expedition to the Titanic. 79 00:03:53,880 --> 00:03:56,440 Speaker 1: When we touch bottom, we had to spend the next 80 00:03:56,520 --> 00:03:59,960 Speaker 1: two and a half hours just sailing around the ocean 81 00:04:00,160 --> 00:04:02,320 Speaker 1: floor looking for the Titanic. 82 00:04:02,520 --> 00:04:05,600 Speaker 3: We had no real guide. You only get three. 83 00:04:05,360 --> 00:04:08,160 Speaker 1: Hours on the bottom of the ocean, so I didn't 84 00:04:08,160 --> 00:04:09,560 Speaker 1: get the full experience. 85 00:04:09,600 --> 00:04:11,160 Speaker 3: I got the photos. 86 00:04:11,400 --> 00:04:15,680 Speaker 2: So David, navigation systems under the waters. It must be 87 00:04:15,720 --> 00:04:17,839 Speaker 2: a lot harder because you can go down in this 88 00:04:18,360 --> 00:04:21,120 Speaker 2: expedition and not even see the Titanic. 89 00:04:21,680 --> 00:04:25,160 Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right, and because these waters are so treacherous, 90 00:04:25,160 --> 00:04:28,760 Speaker 3: so there's so many currents. It is so wild down there. 91 00:04:29,279 --> 00:04:32,039 Speaker 3: And there's been a lot of questions also raised about 92 00:04:32,040 --> 00:04:36,080 Speaker 3: the craft itself, like the company involves your ocean gate expeditions. 93 00:04:36,480 --> 00:04:39,200 Speaker 3: They're actually on records sort of quoting that you can 94 00:04:39,240 --> 00:04:41,720 Speaker 3: sort of put together this submarine with bits and pieces 95 00:04:41,720 --> 00:04:45,279 Speaker 3: that you can buy online at places like Amazon largely, 96 00:04:45,480 --> 00:04:47,880 Speaker 3: so it's sort of been cobbled together. It's got no 97 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:53,479 Speaker 3: certification and certainly not in Canada or America. It's communication 98 00:04:53,600 --> 00:04:56,080 Speaker 3: system is almost non existent. I spoke to a guy 99 00:04:56,080 --> 00:04:59,159 Speaker 3: who actually went down on it last year as well, 100 00:04:59,440 --> 00:05:01,960 Speaker 3: and you know, they control it with lot what looks 101 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:05,719 Speaker 3: like a PlayStation controller. They go down there, there's just 102 00:05:05,760 --> 00:05:09,080 Speaker 3: the one porthole, the one window. You lose communication. You 103 00:05:09,120 --> 00:05:11,440 Speaker 3: can only text message if you're close to the top, 104 00:05:11,520 --> 00:05:15,520 Speaker 3: otherwise sort of flying quite blind. So the whole thing 105 00:05:15,640 --> 00:05:18,520 Speaker 3: just sounds absolutely terrifying. Now they're locked in this think 106 00:05:18,560 --> 00:05:23,000 Speaker 3: and they're floating around somewhere, presumably still alive. Presumably that 107 00:05:23,080 --> 00:05:25,560 Speaker 3: is the banging noise that the coastguard is pointing to. 108 00:05:25,680 --> 00:05:27,919 Speaker 3: But there are so many things that could go wrong here. 109 00:05:28,720 --> 00:05:31,279 Speaker 2: David, what's the world media like there? Is it quite 110 00:05:31,279 --> 00:05:33,640 Speaker 2: a few merging there at the site where at the 111 00:05:33,720 --> 00:05:34,560 Speaker 2: rescue site. 112 00:05:34,839 --> 00:05:36,560 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a huge port down here, so we have 113 00:05:36,680 --> 00:05:39,160 Speaker 3: cuddainly seen a lot of international media, and of course 114 00:05:39,160 --> 00:05:42,880 Speaker 3: we've got about the site down in Boston where the 115 00:05:43,040 --> 00:05:45,760 Speaker 3: US Coast Guard, who's actually the lead agency on this, 116 00:05:45,960 --> 00:05:48,719 Speaker 3: are sort of taking control, although they are staging it 117 00:05:48,920 --> 00:05:52,440 Speaker 3: practically and physically out of this port here. So yeah, 118 00:05:52,480 --> 00:05:54,800 Speaker 3: all eyes sort of on this town. It's so close 119 00:05:54,839 --> 00:05:58,240 Speaker 3: to that area. We're only about six hundred k's from 120 00:05:58,240 --> 00:06:01,960 Speaker 3: that searchstone at the moment, a spot of land next 121 00:06:01,960 --> 00:06:04,680 Speaker 3: stop Titanic wreck kind of things. So yeah, everyone's sort 122 00:06:04,680 --> 00:06:06,880 Speaker 3: of coming down here now. This whole town's really feeling 123 00:06:06,960 --> 00:06:07,279 Speaker 3: it too. 124 00:06:07,560 --> 00:06:09,720 Speaker 2: We appreciate you time, mate, We know how busy you are. 125 00:06:09,760 --> 00:06:11,840 Speaker 2: You can tune into seven News for all the updates. 126 00:06:12,120 --> 00:06:14,800 Speaker 2: The US Bureau chief over there, David Wardward, thanks for 127 00:06:14,839 --> 00:06:15,279 Speaker 2: joining us. 128 00:06:15,320 --> 00:06:18,800 Speaker 1: Legend love stuff, Thank you, Thanks busy and WEFO with 129 00:06:18,880 --> 00:06:21,920 Speaker 1: Kate Ritchie is a Nova podcast. 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