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

Oh so why can't they winch it back up?!

You couldn’t pay me to go an excursion like that never mind forking out £250k! Despite this horrible incident there will still be people queuing up to pay god knows how much to go to Mars if Elon Musk fulfils his dream. I think sometimes that people with so much money just want to keep pushing the excitement barrier to an extreme level.

I really hope they can be rescued but I fear it is too big a job even if located. The Titanic should be left alone now.

Yes - it has to to reach the surface unassisted (even when everything is going perfectly)

Posts last night said they had 7 systems for that

It's not tethered.

Horrific and totally unnecessary deaths.

The British navy was desperate to go and help, and the Russians wouldn't allow it. My dad was a marine engineer. My heart ached for those men and their families.

Also it's worth noting that a submersible is tethered to the mothership and winched up and down whereas a submarine is autonomous and can go up and down on its own accord. This is a submersible. but this poster said it should be.

This is confusing has something happened to the cable?

Hmmm. One on board is a 19 year old lad. An adult, for sure, but someone still too young to really know what it is to accept the risk (and probably with a warped sense of risk and danger based on a priviledged upbringing that is likely to have protected him from some of life's knocks).

The 73 year old expert diver and sub expert? Sure, he knew what he was getting into (though I still feel desperately sorry for him, as I do for them all).

A 19 year old who has been an adult for a year? No bloody way he was able to fully comprehend what he was getting himself into. imo.

Oh so why can't they winch it back up?!

The submersible isn't tethered. So no chance of pulling it back.

In the Good Old Days, ridiculously wealthy people used to spend money for the benefit of their societies - libraries, schools, hospitals etc.

I wish they'd do that again.

Did the tether break or was it never tethered? If it was never tethered then it's a submarine?

Either way this has got to be so frightening I hope they locate the sub. Can they put sonar in the water to find it?

I really don't know @rileynexttime it depends on so many things. If they released the weights it should come back up but we don't even know if they have. Tagging @SinnerBoy for this question.

Did the tether break or was it never tethered? If it was never tethered then it's a submarine?

Not sure whether it was tethered at the outset, but at some point released, or whether it has been untethered the whole journey. It's not a submarine, though. It's incapable of long submersion and cannot navigate independently (has to be directed by the ship above).

I think you have to bear in mind just how deep this is. It's 2.5 miles down the abyss, on the ocean floor. Why do you think it took so long for the Titanic's wreck to be discovered? I suppose you could think of it like the Death zone on Mt Everest.

Not a nice thing to do but urine can be drunk.

Apparently there is no hatch - I've just found this out from this thread myself.

Their prospects are horrible. The poor men.

Yes they may be floating upwards, of course the ocean's currents will make them drift but I presume someone with knowledge of these things could make some kind of prediction as to the most likely place the sub may be found.

Yeah, because no rich people give money to charity anymore, and also, it’s impossible to both give money to charity AND spend some on yourself too, isn’t it?

From the BBC

Mike Reiss is a New York-based writer and producer, who has worked on the Simpsons, and took a trip on the Titan sub last year.
He told BBC Breakfast: "You sign a massive waiver that lists one way after another that you could die on the trip. They mention death three times on page one so it's never far from your mind."
"As I was getting onto the sub my thought was this could be the end.
"So nobody who's in this situation was caught off guard. You all know what you are getting into.

Sorry - there will be a hatch, but it can't be opened from inside

This news is tremendously sad and it's making me feel anxious just thinking about what they are going through.
I don't agree with pp's saying the wealthy onboard should have to pay for the operation, that's extremely biased thinking. Perhaps if rich people wasn't on board then people would show more empathy.
Also we put our lives in the hands of technology everyday.
I hope it's a positive outcome and everyone is found safe and well within the limited time they have left for any chance of survival.

You can only do this once before urine becomes toxic.
Heard they need to be found before 11am UK time on Thursday before their oxygen runs out. Haven't stopped thinking about them and what they must be going through 😔

@Skinnermarink oh really?
I thought and understood that they were dropped off by the mothership in the ocean above the wreck and had 8 days to make various dives, hence I couldn’t work out how they sleep or go toilet in there..
It makes sense now.

Technology has moved on a great deal since then so I hope they would be able to find the submarine much quicker.

The whole thing makes me feel sick and anxious to be honest. As bad as it sounds, I’m going to be avoiding opening the news (and this thread now) where possible for a few days. I will be thinking of them and praying they are found.

The 19 yr old was probably persuaded by his father. Who must now be consumed with guilt. Truly horrible.