The diving specialist brought in to find missing mum Nicola Bulley earlier this year has offered a potential theory about the Titanic submarine's location as the search-and-rescue operation continues.
Peter Faulding's specialist services were called upon when Nicola went missing in St Michael's on Wyre, Lancashire, back in January.
His team arrived in the village on February 6 but called off their search on February 8 after failing to find anything, leading him to conclude: "I don’t think she fell in the water."
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She was, however, later found in the water.
And now the man who runs Specialist Group International has claimed that the missing OceanGate Explorations vessel containing five people – including one British national and two British residents – could be in one of two places.
When asked on Twitter about the possibility of the submarine drift in the sea currents, despite potentially being very deep in the ocean, he replied: “If it still has buoyancy the ocean will move it. “Submarines are not my area of expertise.
“If it has lost power it’s probably on the seabed, a very difficult search and recovery operation.
“Let’s keep our fingers crossed for the poor people on board.”
He also shed some light on the kind of equipment being used by experts to find the vessel, which went missing on Sunday (June 18).
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A social media user told him that he should get his team over to the site and help out.
But, he replied: “Unfortunately…this is not our speciality.
“The sonar along will require 1000s of feet of cable and and a remotely operated vehicle that can work at the same depth.
“Let’s hope the @uscoastguard and @USNavy along with other oceanographic specialists can pull it off.”
According to an internal US government memo on the search, Sonar picked up banging sounds on Tuesday from underneath the water in the North Atlantic Ocean.
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Obtained by Rolling Stone, the Department of Homeland Security e-mails read: “The P8 (a Canadian aircraft with underwater detection capabilities) heard banging sounds in the area every 30 minutes.
"Four hours later additional sonar was deployed and banging was still heard.”
At this moment, the vessel carrying the five-person crew has yet to be found.
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