News Titanic Tours Submersible missing in atlantic ocean

davidlemonparty said:
Probably had a haywire turbo mode experience on the descent control button lol.

Good for beating bosses but not so much when your life is at stake
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What the hell is Madonnas bra doing on the analogs brother?
 
if there was system failure and they are legit just sitting there at the ocean bottom waiting to die, damn thats horrible.
 
MicroBrew said:
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In 2022, CBS reporter David Pogue ventured on the Titan to see the Titanic—he had to sign a waiver before diving that said the submersible was “experimental” and “had not been approved by any regulatory body.”

Inside, the 22-foot-long submersible is about the size of a minivan, Pogue reported, and has a single porthole at one end through which passengers can view the wreckage.

The Titan is operated from the inside by a single round button that turns from red to green when pushed: “It should be like an elevator,” CEO Stockton Rush told Pogue in 2022, adding: “It shouldn’t take a lot of skill.”

Later in the video, Rush points to some piping inside the vessel saying he purchased it from RV supplier Camping World, and says “we run the whole thing” using a video game controller—Pogue also shows the vessel uses construction pipes as ballast.

Rush clarifies the pressure vessel, which maintains pressure and air quality to sustain human life miles under the sea, is “not macgyvered at all” and is developed with the help of Boeing and NASA.

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2nd to last paragraph makes this vessel sound janky as eff.
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thats the first thing that comes to mind seeing it, it looks glued together and "oh, I forgot to add that here, I'll just screw it on" . Nasa right...
Looks like someone made it in the shed in their backyard. Hopefully those poor folks are ok.

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Bushpig said:
If he wasnt a billionaire there would be no rescue attempt.
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TBF broadly speaking people get saved at sea regardless of creed, colour or class. There's a, if you can help you do, policy broadly.

Normally I'd agree with you though!

ICHEERTHEBULL said:
Have the media blamed the orcas yet?
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I sailed through those waters a couple weeks back, saw the sunk boats etc. Still moored there. Was pretty wild talking to the people that were attacked.
 
TTech said:
thats the first thing that comes to mind seeing it, it looks glued together and "oh, I forgot to add that here, I'll just screw it on" . Nasa right...
Looks like someone made it in the shed in their backyard. Hopefully those poor folks are ok.

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That thing looks like a it was assembled by carnies. I wouldn't ride that across a creek.
 
Doughie99 said:
yeah but they're now 1.5days in.....so now down to maybe 60hrs remaining. IF they're still all currently alive. (big assumption).
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I'm thinking it's all alive or all dead, don't see a fatal accident occurring to only one or two.
 
I thought their only chance was that the backup systems pumped air into the ballast tanks and brought it to the surface? After which they still had to be located before their oxygen ran out, as there's no way of opening it from the inside. There's no plan B. It's not like there's another vessel to go down there on a recovery mission.
Hate to say it, but I don't give them any real chance at this stage.
I was looking for info on the titanium and carbon fibre construction and the backup systems, but couldn't find anything particularly informative. It's a one off.
 
HeffDoesWant said:
I'm thinking it's all alive or all dead, don't see a fatal accident occurring to only one or two.
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yes I agree -- either they'll get them all back to the surface alive, or all dead.

Personally I hold out very little hope for the 5 people on board.

They need :
1) another submersible that can reach those depths (13,000ft approx) on-site TODAY or at absolute latest tomorrow morning.
2) the 2nd submersible needs to be able to latch onto the first one somehow (unlikely capability) and drag it to surface or attach a very very long cable.
3) obviously for no.2 to happen they first need to find the exact location.

I'd say 90% probability they're already dead OR will die due to suffocation and/or hypothermia. If power has failed, it'll be extremely cold.

Note : IF one or more crew die before the others (heart attack / whatever) then this will obviously stretch the "hours of O2 remaining" for the remaining crew.
 
Kardashians said:
Listen hun, I’ve been obsessed with the Titanic since I was a wee one. Also from Nova Scotia, so got the ocean in my veins.

But I’ma tell you right now, for all the money in the world I’d never hop on in a submarine and go scout that wreckage out. That’s dimwit hours right there. Don’t fuck with the ocean, don’t go testing fate like that, and especially not in a shoddy ass tin can like these twats hopped into.
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Any sailor will tell you the same thing: the moment you don't treat the sea with absolute respect, it kills you.
 
Ruprecht said:
I thought their only chance was that the backup systems pumped air into the ballast tanks and brought it to the surface, after which they still had to be located before their oxygen ran out, as there's no way of opening it from the inside.
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Whoa...that is frankly INSANE. No amount of rationalization or safety features makes that intelligent engineering. You barely achieve surface in emergency and then run out of air on top of water. FFS... Only reason that would make a lick of sense would be if the submarine was constantly cable attached and/or the host ability to reach it at any time as to open it from outside. Any other reason is bonkers.
 
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