Navy Sending Deep Ocean Lifting System to Find Missing Submarine With Less Than 40 Hours Left Before Oxygen Runs Out

The U.S. Navy is up against the clock as they work hard to locate the missing submarine that disappeared while on a mission to explore the wreckage of the Titanic.

In an effort to get prepared, a Navy spokesperson confirmed that it has deployed Flyaway Deep Ocean Salvage System, a deep ocean lifting system, along with experts in the field with hopes that the vessel is found and can be retrieved.

The lift system is designed to provide “reliable deep ocean lifting capacity for the recovery of large, bulky, and heavy undersea objects such as aircraft or small vessels,” the Navy said.

The system and experts are expected to arrive in the area as soon as Tuesday night.

The five people aboard the vessel include a space-traveling British billionaire, one of Pakistan’s wealthiest men, and a retired commander in the French navy who led the first expedition to the site of the “unsinkable” ship, the New York Post reported.

OceanGate Expeditions’ missing submersible lost contact with its support crew Sunday about an hour and 45 minutes after descending on its mission to look at wreckage from the 1912 disaster, which is 12,500 feet underwater–some 370 miles off the coast of Newfoundland.

The submarine has been running out of emergency oxygen, with about 40 hours left Tuesday morning, Former Coast Guard Captain Andrew Norris said on “TMZ Live” Tuesday.