News Titanic Tours Submersible missing in atlantic ocean

[Bobby Boulders]

 

[Kona Bear]

 

[BKMMAFAN]

Just heard this as well. Makes it all the more terrifying given the oxygen time left. Mercifully, I hope it's just noise and not the actual people. There's just no hope at this point.

 

[Loiosh]

The nutty putty story is nightmarish. People who crawl into passages that MIGHT not be wide enough.....I can't even comprehend WTF they might have been thinking. In fact, Spelunking in general is fucking stupid

I made the mistake of reading that story, I had a hard time sleeping for weeks.

 

[lsa]

Should never been have allowed to take place in the first place. It's insane there is not a greater degree of regulatory standards for these "trips". People always harp on government regulations, but there's a reason you don't fear for your life every time you get on an airplane. Just sheer absurdity. Hope they're somehow found alive but it seems unlikely.

Also, (dont know if its been mentioned) the contract you sign to go on the trip mentions death 5 times on the first page, according to a journo that did the trip a few years back.

So the people onboard knew how dangerous it can be.

 

[lsa]

This will make a good movie in a few years

I will wait for the porno version.

 

[BKMMAFAN]

Also, (dont know if its been mentioned) the contract you sign to go on the trip mentions death 5 times on the first page, according to a journo that did the trip a few years back.

So the people onboard knew how dangerous it can be.

That's standard with any contract regarding travel. It's the sheer disregard for safety standards that sets this apart. Read any airplane ticket language and you'll see the same risk jargon, but they are a regulated industry that adheres to regulations set by most 1st world governments.

This submersible was a disaster waiting to happen.

 

[TribalDrumz]

Wow that shit is rotting away not even epic anymore like when James Cameron went .

 

[Phlog]

Not the news show we wanted but the news show we need.

Terrible news hearing there's banging. No way to help them at all if they were unable to manually release the ballast.

The other possibility is they're on the surface, unable to escape their tomb, not found by the boat. Seas big. Maybe power failure meaning loss of GPS and Comms.

 

[Gene Tunney]

The underwater drone that can get to that depth isn't expected to be on site till tomorrow evening. About the same time as the Navy's salvage ship. On the 1% chance that they locate them and they're alive. There could only be mere hours to get them hoisted up. That 8 hours that Oceangate waited to notify the Coast Guard was crucial

You would think that a drone manned topside that follows the decent and ascent of the submersible would be a rudimentary safety measure.

 

[KnightTemplar]

That's just the Kraken breaking the sub open to get to the food

 

[PBAC]

It's the fact that the Titanic can actually be credited for starting the depression and partly WW1

 

[nonoob]

I will wait for the porno version.

Banging's been heard every 30 minutes. if the movie is correctly done, you'll likely need to do a lot of fast-forwarding to catch "the action".

 

[lsa]

It's the fact that the Titanic can actually be credited for starting the depression and partly WW1

So Titanic sank in 1912 and the depression started in 1929.
Talk about delayed reaction.

 

[SakurabasEar]

Wow that shit is rotting away not even epic anymore like when James Cameron went .

It's been overly exploited in my opinion, at least since the 90s. It was a terrible tragedy in 1912, and a cautionary tale of man's hubris

I hope these men are okay. But it appears the cautionary tale was completely lost on some of these individuals. G-d Bless

 

[PBAC]

So Titanic sank in 1912 and the depression started in 1929.
Talk about delayed reaction.

it was something I heard about recently. Apparently the high profile people/items on board caused or influenced an economic fallout. TBH I didn't follow through on it that much but it was a convincing idea.

 

[Phlog]

US Navy dude thinks it's stuck down there.

 

[PaleMoonlight]

1) Was this the first ever trip for a group?

2) why didn’t the billionaires use the same sub James Cameron used to shoot footage for Titanic? Or was that only a vehicle with camera?

 

[mozfonky]

I feel like the Titanic is unlucky.

that was exactly my thought, call me superstitious but doom is all over the history of that boat. I wouldn't want to get near it.

 

[mozfonky]

The tour costs $250k because you get a historically accurate Titanic experience down to every detail, it even ends in the same way as the original.

that was low, even for you, but ok, good one.