https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-20/titanic-tourist-submersible-goes-missing/102498454 Hit an iceberg?
Saw something that said a ride to see the Titanic went for $250,000. That kind of money should have bought a lot of safety.
250k each. Money back guarantee? I also saw that virgin will be doing its first flight to the brink of space. 450k per person.
They're likely already dead. This sounds like an electrical failure which likely would have shutdown all the systems (heat and air) they need to survive at depths. RIP. The reasoning BTW goes: loss of communications would likely have triggered an attempt by the crew to surface. No communications, no attempt to surface, likely loss of electrical operations aboard the sub.
Either that or even a minor leak which would’ve caused an instant implosion. They wouldn’t have felt a thing if that were the case as the pressure would’ve just crushed their air supply instantly. I don’t understand how these things ever got clearance to do this and more importantly, why any of these bazillionaires would feel comfortable squeezing 5 people into a tube the size of a double bed. The US navy only has nuclear submarines capable of maybe getting to this depth in a perfect world and it doesn’t sound like they’d get their in time if they are still alive.
International waters. Nobody has jurisdiction except under a few treaties in these areas. International Whaling Commission, things like that.
If I’m a billionaire I want to take a fucking enclosed yacht down to that site. Not a metal death tube.
Anytime I see an article about something like this, I always think of my dad…. I hope he was on that sub.
There was a video floating around yesterday of a report CBS did a few years back on this depth trap... apparently the owner was the guy in the video and he was on the sub that is missing. It was as low budget as it gets. Seemed like of the 5 people on board only 2 were paying customers and one of them belonged to one of the richest families in Pakistan.
I was named after a relative that perished in a submarine that was lost at depth... It used to freak me out when I was a kid thinking about it... probably why I have a bit of claustrophobia to this day.
My father was 6'6" and they stuck him in a sub for like 2 months in the 60s. Then they took pity on him and reassigned him to the Essex and a short while after that he was in the Cuban blockade. That has nothing to do with anything.
The thing I don't understand is why anybody would run a service with no recovery plan and why anybody would pay to use that service? The only outfits in the world that can conduct rescue operations at a depth of 12.5K feet are military and likely classified. These are the people who tap undersea communications and very occasionally go down to retrieve a piece of sensitive technology that was lost at sea. There is no way they're going to assist in a purely commercial rescue. I mean who in their right mind would get on a vehicle headed down into the unknown with no chance of rescue when something inevitably went wrong?
Rescuing the missing craft from the ocean depths would require a second, more specialized vehicle known as the Flyaway Deep Ocean Salvage System, he said. FADOSS includes specialized shock absorbers to handle lifting loads of up to 60,000 pounds without snapping its cable to the surface. The US Navy said that it is sending a FADOSS to assist in the search and rescue efforts. It is expected to arrive in St. Johns Tuesday night, a spokesperson said. https://www.cnn.com/americas/live-news/titanic-submersible-missing-search-06-20-23/index.html
The mentioned that at the press conference this afternoon but also that getting it there and ready to go was a multi-day process. The other issue is that all of the oxygen-hour predictions are based on perfect scenarios. It doesn’t factor in panic, anxiety, etc. which likely sucks up more oxygen. Too much carbon dioxide can also become poisonous. I hope in a completely humane way, that if these folks died, they were crushed by the pressure instantly. The idea of them suffocating to death while knowing what’s happening makes me sick. It makes me even more sick if that thing surface and those dumbfuck engineers didn’t put any safeties into place to open it from the inside after surfacing. Imagine they surfaced right away because of technical failures and died drifting away at sea because they couldn’t open the thing?
