News Titanic Tours Submersible missing in atlantic ocean

[KnightTemplar]

pretty sure the billionaire’s family can’t wait to hear he tragically passed

What a disgustingly accu - I mean cynical - thing to say!

 

[Doughie99]

According to the Daily Mail - so take it with a Siberian mine's worth of salt - their air runs out at 12 noon GMT on Thursday.

that sounds about right, it more or less corresponds with a 4am ET launch Sunday morning.

- assuming the 96hours of air at mission start is accurate for FIVE people. I'd say at best the "96hours" is a rough estimate. Different people consume different amounts of O2.

If anyone has already died (older folk potentially) from a medical condition or the cold or fading O2, then the air supply would last correspondingly longer for the remaining people. All of which is academic unless a rescue vehicle is available and I haven't heard of one being there or being on the way.
- I suspect there IS no other submersible rescue vehicle available in the time-frame remaining and so it's likely that the crew of 5 are probably already doomed.

 

[Uber_Noober]

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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[Ruprecht]

One would think that for 250k a piece, the company would have a drone/remote controled submersible that would observe their descent for safety. Or at the very least maintain a communication open all the time that is not dependant on the submarines power. Its 2023, it shouldnt be a problem, if nothing else, dont they have range extenders like one has for wifi, only underwater to bounce and amplify the signal off.

4000m of cable is likely to get pretty tangled. Can't really have any form of radio communication otherwise while submersed under all that seawater.

 

[HereticBD]

$250,000 to risk your life to go look at some hunk of rusted metal, through a tiny window in a tin can...

Just go watch the movie, folks. James Cameron gets you right up close and personal to the wreckage, when it was actually still worth looking at.

 

[Cool Hand Luke]

How many hours has it been now?

tree fiddy?

 

[Ruprecht]

US navy apparently has a CURV 21 salvage sub which can go to 20,000 feet and can be flown around.
No idea if they would or could get it there in time to try and find or recover the Titan.

 

[HereticBD]

One would think that for 250k a piece, the company would have a drone/remote controled submersible that would observe their descent for safety. Or at the very least maintain a communication open all the time that is not dependant on the submarines power. Its 2023, it shouldnt be a problem, if nothing else, dont they have range extenders like one has for wifi, only underwater to bounce and amplify the signal off.

It's apparently insanely difficult and risky to get to those depths, and communication becomes more and more difficult the further you go down, no matter what equipment you're using. It's not a typical dive. Probably why you shouldn't go down there on some wealthy quack's sub he cobbled together, and controls with a 3rd party Playstation controller.

 

[Dream Evil]

Not true..
I once pissed in it, and it did nothing!

Only once? The ocean is like 40% my pee. Local swimming pools about 98%.

 

[Ruprecht]

It's apparently insanely difficult and risky to get to those depths, and communication becomes more and more difficult the further you go down, no matter what equipment you're using. It's not a typical dive. Probably why you shouldn't go down there on some wealthy quack's sub he cobbled together, and controls with a 3rd party Playstation controller.

The reports of having to beef up earlier hull iterations due to discovering "cyclic fatigue" can't exactly fill anyone with confidence.
Exactly how many carbon fibre deep sea subs have ever been made I wonder?

 

[GordoBarraBJJ]

250k?



Hope they're rescued and then slapped.

Yeah,

Hope they're found but beyond that can't feel sorry for the super rich. 250k could have gone to so many other things (shelters, kids programs, animal shelters, etc).

 

[Corona]

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

turbo mode was the goat. You had no idea what was gonna happen, could freeze your game or pull off some epic combo lol

 

[GordoBarraBJJ]

Also, this is a harbinger of what's going to happen when and if the super rich start being shuttled to mars.

 

[C-UNiT]

Always fall asleep during that film

 

[DizzySpells25]

Yeah,

Hope they're found but beyond that can't feel sorry for the super rich. 250k could have gone to so many other things (shelters, kids programs, animal shelters, etc).

I always love when people start playing this game.

 

[Jar of Flies]

There's nothing valuable down there.

I saw a documentary once that indicated there are well-preserved Picasso paintings and a rare blue diamond down there.

 

[Cielo_]

I always love when people start playing this game.

Makes no sense. People buy 100k-200k cars all the time. Are we supposed to just not do what we want anymore?

Let’s stop pushing the boundaries of technology and what humans are capable of because there are drug addicts shitting on the streets in San Francisco.

Shouldn’t people be more upset with the billions spent each year on homelessness in California with seemingly no benefit?

 

[Thai Domi]

UK billionaire confirmed to be on board.

Is the situation somehow more dire because of this?

 

[Rhood]

Attention Sherdog:
You seein' this shit?

wait........






wait......

 

[Doughie99]

The reports of having to beef up earlier hull iterations due to discovering "cyclic fatigue" can't exactly fill anyone with confidence.
Exactly how many carbon fibre deep sea subs have ever been made I wonder?

i'm sure the hull is only titanium or an alloy of titanium. Carbon-fibre i'd guess was used for certain parts to save weight etc but I very much doubt carbon-fibre was used for the hull. Certainly from the video of Stockton Rush showing the Titan sub, the hull looks 100% metal.

My view is they'd really have to get the U.S. Navy's rescue submersible there TODAY if they're gonna have any chance of :
1) finding Titan
2) getting it back to surface.