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

One of the guys in there has been to the moon,

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i think tourists is the wrong word,
aside from the 19 year old son, they are experienced explorers

@notimagain sorry that wasn't clear! Hamish Harding is also an astronaut who has been into space!

This is my worst nightmare.

Hamish Harding has flown on a trip into space, amongst many other billionaire adventures. Sadly for him it looks like this adventure may be his last.

@Willmafrockfit they weren't there in any other capacity other than to be tourists though. The titanic has been explored so so much. This wasn't ground breaking exploration

And I'm not criticising - I'm not sure how I feel about this sort of tourism. But the trips in the sub are sold as tourist trips so I assume that's exactly what they are

I believe he has been to 'space' but not to the moon. No one has been to the moon since the last Apollo landing.

Yep I know that, it was the Moon bit that threw me but@TheOwlChronicles has clarified the comment.

Watching Race Across the Workd recently has been really helpful with the geography of this as they raced across Newfoundland to St John at the end.

I'm not sure there's going to be a successful outcome here so I hope that it was very quick for all involved.

I’m not supportive of this sort of extreme tourism for billionaires at all tbh.

You’ve now got lots of rescuers risking their lives looking for them.

I very much doubt the thing will ever be found

My 'woo' friend believes it is a spiritual revenge. I am not 'woo' in the slightest but I can see where he's coming from!

I am a bit "woo", and I also thought something similar. Not "spiritual revenge", but rather an area of death and despair where so many souls died in torment that it reaches out and draws in others - a sort of necro-magnetic field.

It should be sanctified, designated as a graveyard, and left undisturbed. Too many lives were cut short there.

I hope they don't suffer, but they knew the risks.

We know the risks getting into a car or on a plane. This submersible had never killed anyone before. Knowing there are risks, doesn't mean you can perceive them as happening to you and doesn't mean you're in any way prepared for the worst.

Really hope they are found asap

You literally just need to do the tiniest bit of googling to answer your questions

It's St John's in Newfoundland. St John is in Nova Scotia. (People get them mixed up).

A close friend of mine lived in St John's for quite a few years so I've visited him and spent a fair bit of time there. It's a rather unique place. Odd even. Like the film Deliverance sort of odd. One day while he was working, I went out on an fishing boat (iceberg hunting). It was early June and the weather was 'ok' (by local standards - grim by my standards). The ocean waves were massive and so cold and it made me very aware what a brutal place that part of the Atlantic is. Despite wearing waterproofs, by the time we got back to St John's, I was so soaked that even my knickers were wet through! My phone was too wet to work and I had to go into a shop I'd been in earlier that day and ask if they'd mind phoning my friend for me to come and pick me up.

Sounds like a silly little story but having seen the Atlantic there (and heard the stories of Titanic survivors brought ashore there), no way would I be setting foot in some submersible minivan there, billionaire or not. It's cold and wild and you are at the mercy of nature, and that's above the waves!

That’s not a silly little story. You wrote that very nicely, I can see it in my mind’s eye.

Agree! Watching all the 'experts' this morning.....even they seemed very uncertain they would be found. I'm still so shocked that anyone would do this...let alone hand over 250k. And it hadn't been put through an independent inspection process. I cannot imagine the horror of it all. And for the billionaire who has his son with him.....can't imagine it.

I'm not so sure. The CBS journalist who went last year said they were very explicit in their waivers about death and how many ways you could die. He said one page alone mentioned death 3 times and he actually quite scared.

I imagine it was water off a duck's back for Hamish "I've been to space" Billionaire and the CEO and the French x-expert but surely the Dad and his son would have thought WTF?! Especially when they saw the cobbled together submersible??

Are they actually steering it with a playstation pad?? This doesn't seem real

Who could blame them?

Countless whales, dolphins, seals and other sea creatures have drowned and suffocated in "ghost nets" - which is one of the things that it is being speculated could have caused the sub to sink.
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I don't think there is any chance those men will be rescued, though I hope I'm wrong. Like a PP earlier I am just praying that their end was quick, and they weren't even aware of it.

Bloody hell! I certainly agree that just because you can do it, doesn’t mean that you should

I think this is horrific, billionaires or no. But this gets a dedicated live news feed on the bbc. Did the recent migrant boat disasters get the same level of concern or dedicated coverage? I realise it’s a real time disaster so the comparison might be a bit unfair.. but I still feel uneasy about it.

Just to clarify yes, I am also hoping against hope for these people, it’s unimaginable.

Lol does Mumsnet pay you to police the responses on here? Do you know the amount of threads that wouldn’t exist because people could just do the ‘tiniest bit of googling?’

I’m happy to ask questions on a thread and have them answered clearly by very helpful posters. You are not one of them

If you have the opportunity and you want to, I think you accept the risk. I wouldn't personally, and I hope they are found and rescued but I am not optimistic for survivors, or even recovering the submersible.