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kristin dahlgren joins us from boston. what are we learning about the rescue efforts now?scue efforts are being directed. at 1:00 p.m., over there will be where the presser is being held, so we are hoping to learn more. to this point, we know they have aircraft and vessels on their way out to the area searching. they have used sonar buoys trying to listen for any sign of the submersible, which was headed down to the titanic wreck, 13,000 feet beneath the ocean. let's talk about the some of the risks. the pressure there is about the equivalent of being beneath an empire state building made of solid lead, and so extreme pressure is what they are dealing with. this is a difficult rescue operation. this is what my colleague, tom costello, talked to the admiral running this operation talked about. >> we put all the assets on finding the submersible and the people in it. when something happens on the high seas it gets complicated, and that's why we pressed hard to get aerial assets to search for it. >> reporter: a very difficult operation going on. as for the people who were onb

overnight after crews detected noises in the area >> kristen dahlgren joins us from boston with more on that and what it's like to be inside that sub kristinah so the banging was first detected on tuesday night. the coast guard says four hours later it was still going so while that submersible hasn't been located this morning, this may be the first sliver of hope. this morning, search crews racing against time to find that missing submersible after the u.s. coast guard confirmed overnight that underwater noises have been detected in the area the sonar buoys that found the noises part of a massive search effort that would face a challenging rescue very few vessels and instruments are able to work at such extreme ocean depths the titanic sits 13,000 feet under the sea. that's more than nine times the length of the empire state building only a small group of people have ventured that far it is part of the reason why oceangate pitches passengers a once in a lifetime experience for the price of $250,000. an eight-day journey, about 900 miles off the coast of cape cod. ocean gate's ceo, one of those onboard the titan now, told nbc in 2022, passe