Missing Titanic Submarine- new thread

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I see the first one is full, is there a new one?

The whole idea of being bolted into a tiny vessel from the outside seems incredibly scary to me. You could not pay me to be in there for 5 minutes. Forgive my ignorance but I haven't seen in any articles - how long was the original trip meant to take?

I hope they find them, I can't imagine what their families must be going through

They haven't been found because the bottom of the ocean is absolutely vast. Like looking for a needle in a haystack.

Surely you can still fund research and development without going on the craft yourself?

That guy who survived a similar incident 20 years ago was on Newsnight last night. Will be on iPlayer.

It should have been around 8 hours in total.

always one 🙄

And there are plenty of people actively working in ocean research and development who never get to actually go in a submersible to visit the Titanic. It's just a massive rich guy flex where this time the risk didn't pay off.

Yes I read that. I think 2.5 hours down and the same back from memory.

Surely you can still fund research and development without going on the craft yourself?

Surely you can understand that people have the right to spend money the way they want?

This, from the stepson, four hours ago.

“Ladies I’m single 💙”

They aren't funding the huge rescue mission themselves though are they?

And the French explorer and the Titanic expert are just "rich guys" flexing?

Spending a lot of energy banging on the hull would also use up oxygen faster. Although you would think they might still do it occasionally, just far more spaced out, in case someone picks up the sound. Anyway if they have no power they have likely been overcome by hypothermia.

if it isn’t found by tomorrow morning / when the air runs out will searches stop and everyone on board be declared dead? or will they keep looking for it?

Because the only comms they had no board were a very basic text system, needing other ship directly above and was very slow. The only other thing was a ping every 15 minutes. Even after losing the sub for 5 hours in their last dive, they still didn't even install a distress beacon.

i imagine they will keep searching but after tomorrow less likely to find them alive

I imagine they will keep looking for the sub even when they know the oxygen has run out, and the occupants are dead. Maybe the urgency of the searching would scale down, though. Recovery phase rather than rescue.

This banging noise is being heat by drones in the search area? Is it not surprising that they can hear banging from 11000ft underwater when they are in planes in the sky? Does this perhaps indicate the sun is not actually that deep?

No - I don't believe this.

If you read the thread you will see that my comment was in response to another which said that they were very aware of the state of the submersible and the risk they took.

And if that is true, and they still got onto the craft, and particularly, that man took his son on board, then that was criminally reckless.

He actually did an interview, and posted pics last night from the concert. Said his dad would want him to go, so why not enjoy himself.

Bizarre.

*Sorry sub

Thing is there are lots of situations where it could be questioned whether money (and lives) should be spent on rescuing people.

People who go out surfing when the tides are high and there are weather warnings about.

People who go ice scating on frozen lakes when we know the ice is not thick enough to support them.

People who climb mountains when advised against doing so.

The list is endless, and in all these situations other people have to put up the resources, often risking their own lives to rescue them.

And most of those people aren’t rich, they’re just stupid, and the risks they put themselves in are entirely avoidable.

But we rescue them because we see the bigger picture beyond just saying “they were idiots, let them die.” That’s not how humanity works.

And even with money the people in this sub are still human, capable of human fear, human terror, human suffering, with human relatives on the outside.

The amount of money they spend hasn’t changed that.

I am speechless at how crass this man is.

They drop sonar buoys into the sea. They can detect sounds down to 13,000 feet, then relay them to the aircraft.

I think it’s also likely that the families would fund a private search.

Thanks onlyopenmouthtochangefeet

the banging noises is a really unsettling development