Missing Titanic submarine

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How horrifying that a submarine carrying 5 people has gone missing. Apparently there’s only 96 hours of air on the submarine when it sets off.

The people on board must be terrified!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-65953872.amp

Just awful. 96 hours is quite a lot though - several days. How long has it been missing?

fingers crossed they are located safe and well

The thought of something like this happening is what would put me off ever wanting to do anything like this (not that I could afford it anyway!). I hope it is found soon.

I can’t imagine how they will even begin to get them back to surface, assuming they can locate them in time. I feel claustrophobic just thinking about it, it must be terrifying.

Awful. I just saw that it cost £250k per ticket.

Those people must be so terrified. How can it go missing?

The news reported that it possibly set off at 4am this morning.

I could think of nothing worse than going on such an excursion. The wreckage is so deep in the ocean which would be a big no from me (I couldn’t afford it anyway at $250k a ticket!)

Good point! How do you rescue a submarine once it’s found?!

This has made me feel physically sick in terms of the panic, terror and claustrophobia that the passengers must be feeling.
It is something that should only happen in a movie and I'm struggling with the idea that it is a real thing. Jesus. The poor people.

Apparently you can float it as long as it hasn’t lost pressure. If it has, well I don’t think there’s much to be done. You can’t exactly pop open the hatch at that pressure and pull them out.

Ugh. That’s horrific! You’d have to pay me a lot more than £250k to go inside that in the first place.
Terrifying-poor people

Utterly horrifying. Hope they are found safe and soon.

Oh my goodness- How terrifying.
Saw a film of those tiny Submarines
It looked incredibly claustrophobic and the chap being filmed was clearly agitated at times - and seasick at the end of journey.
No lavatories onboard-
Can’t be pleasant breathing each other’s air, even when all is going well.

Hope they are located ASAP

These things should be tethered to something. If that's not feasible then people just shouldn't be allowed to get in them for fun. I can imagine nothing worse and you'd never get me in such a vessel.

I wouldn't go to space either.

Hopefully they're found.

Do the passengers know they are missing?
It's terrifying.

Wow that sounds absolutely awful. Those poor people.

@MillicentTrilbyHiggins hopefully not, hopefully they’re blissfully unaware

imho there would be so many better ways to spend $250k!!!

Can a submarine not resurface on its own? Is it just missing as in the tracker isn't working and it may well just come back up on its own? How is it deemed missing and yes do the passengers know?

Just read this on Sky News

“The vessel operates by pinging back a message every 15 minutes to signal to those ashore that it is safe, however Sky News understands that those pings have not been heard from this vessel for more than seven hours.”

So something technical has happened to stop it communicating with it’s mother ship. Hopefully it’s just a transmission error but even still, the Atlantic is massive, they could be anywhere!

@doingitalllagain the news have reported there has been no contact for 7 hours. Hopefully it has just resurfaced somewhere.

There are pictures online of the inside of the submarine. It looks so claustrophobic

Assuming their oxygen hasn't malfunctioned, I'd imagine so, yes.

Presumably they come back up to the surface each day.

It's the stuff nightmares are made of.

@doingitalllagain its not actually a submarine, it’s a submersible. The submarine can go under water and resurface on its own power but a submersible needs a mother ship to launch and recover it.

I read this, but don't really understand what that means. Does a mother ship physically gather its satellite vessels, or does it signal(?) them in somehow?

I don't think it can resurface on its own. It needs the mothership.

This is just horrific, and if it can’t be located I do hope there’s a problem with the oxygen and that they are all unaware of what’s happening.

This is so scary, I really hope those on board can be found

I'm hyperventilating just thinking about this !