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

And yes, hyperthermia. How can you mitigate against that if the power has gone?

I agree with this. Some things are better left alone, especially if there is an element of danger involved. Awful for the people however and I hope there is a good outcome.

The gentleman I saw on Twitter earlier was part of the same expedition last year - I am not sure if he was on board the mothership or in the submersible and it went missing for 2.5 hours then, but they were still able to communicate with the “lost” submersible. The mothership apparently blocked the internet so that nobody on board could post/communicate anything about it.

It seems like such a basic instrument for such a dangerous dive.

I don't remember the sharks, but it's definitely a possibility. I am terrified of being underwater (did scuba to get over it, but it didn't work), so I'm afraid all I could think of was the depth of the water he was in. I kept forgetting to breath while I watched!

Yes, there was a lot of life where I dived @PurposefulBear but we specifically went to a geothermal area. There were lots of deep sea hydrothermal vents with tubeworms around them (in the Pacific, that Atlantic and Indian Ocean vent systems usually have gazillions of shrimp around the vents, not worms), there were also crabs and snails and fish, lots of bioluminescence on the way down, and a pod of pilot whales came to check us out while we were still bopping on the surface. Away from the geothermal areas, which are sites of primary production due to the microbes living there and can support more life, the seafloor is emptier.

There is one very small window according to several articles. Otherwise, yes, it would be pointless just to view surroundings on a screen https://www.geekwire.com/2021/oceangate-gets-titan-sub-ready-begin-expedition-titanic-shipwreck/

Aside, I so so hope they are rescued.

So options are;

1: it's resurfaced and bobbing in the sea somewhere waiting to be found.

2: it's floating about in the depths of the ocean, running out of oxygen on board.

3: It's descended too deep and been crushed like a coke can.

I mean, it's not looking good options wise.

How terrible, imagine being stuck in a tin can knowing your oxygen will run out, your going to die there and nobody will find you or see you ever again. 😳😬 It's the stuff of nightmares.

I don't really have anything useful to add but if it is just drifting around at the bottom of the ocean somewhere, how absolutely horrific for all involved.

I don't want anybody to suffer or worse, due. I hope very much they survive.

However, I find it disturbing the inordinate attention and efforts of multiple governments to spend millions trying to rescue a very few people, who voluntarily have put their lives in grave danger at huge cost, purely for their own entertainment.....

.... when contrasted with the thousands who die in seas who are desperately trying to seek asylum, have no choice, and are sometimes not rescued even when the coast guards know where they are and could pick them up with no problem.....

I don't think these billionaires' lives should be worth more, nor would their deaths be more horrifying or deserve more attention.

I think exactly like this.
I can bet alot of what they paid for was insurance.
Must be horrifically scary. 😖

I do somewhat agree that the organisers of truly frivolous adventures, such as this, should have to sign something to state that they acknowledge public resources won't be used to rescue them if it all goes shit shaped.

There's bugger all reason anyone needs to go poking around down there.

Or, these million and billionaires should be forced to set up a rescue fund deposit for such circs, before they descend/ascend sea or space.

Didn't they say that there was 5 on board and they were all crew?

Or maybe they just used the word crew to mean everyone, rather than staff and tourists etc.

No they aren't all staff. Just 1 I think.

I don't see how they could be rescued. There aren't many vessels that can submerge to those depths and even if they were able to locate them, how would they lift it? Most deep sea submersibles are fairly small. They are not like navy submarines.

This is a case of having more money than sense. The article linked earlier makes it very clear this was a very sketchy operation.

Apparently insurance not included in the ticket price according to the BBC.

It's just on Sky News now, there's 5 on board, one of whom is the founder of the company running the trip and another is a British billionaire.

Some things should be left alone and titanic is one. Shes been gone for over 100 years. Would start digging up a grave from 1914? No, so this is no difference.

I doubt the trip would be insurable, from moment the hatches sealed until they reopened.

I don't imagine it's insurable tbh. You pays your money, you takes your choice.

Billionaires are very often the people who fund scientific research. A lot of research projects and new inventions wouldn't take place at all without wealthy philanthropists.

Apparently the billionaire has also been in a Jeff Bezos space craft.

Huh? If it was a secret mission then they just wouldn't have bothered mentioning it was "missing" in the first place

And to think what we would not have in our lives if it weren't for them, no not in all cases but when I get a 'punish the rich' feeling from others I think what luxuries do people have because of them?

Mind you just because humans can explore everywhere doesn't mean we should, sad for them and their families but humans need to stop