Missing Titan Sub! Thread 3

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OP of the last thread has said she has to pop out so making this one as we’re almost full on the 2nd thread.

I cannot stop thinking about these poor men.

But Magellan were ready to fly over on Mon afternoon - they had UK clearance and a transporter plane on standby but the US refused to give them clearance. They would have been in St John's on Mon evening and could have been onsite today.

I think that step son's Mum met Hamish Harding later in life. He lives in San Diego and she lived in Dubai. So it may be that he's not had much of a relationship with him. It also seems from his Facebook that he's had some significant challenges in his life. Not making excuses....

This old chestnut again...

Sadly people die in tragic circumstances everyday. Sadly not everything can be reported.

I'd imagine if the weather conditions are bad (which I think they are, since there was only a small window of good weather for the sub to go down to the wreck in the first place) then yes, it wouldn't be smooth. :(

Oops. My apologies. Ignore me.

In 1987, an 18-month old girl named Jessica fell down an eight-inch-diameter well in her aunt’s back yard in Texas.
The entire United States became captivated over the next 58 hours of her rescue.
There’s something fascinating about people who go missing or who get trapped and need rescuing to the public at large.
It happens every time. Remember the Thai cave boys?
https://www.biography.com/celebrities/baby-jessica

I was thinking the same. I'm going to sleep soon and if there's no good news upon waking, I think most will accept we've run out of time (although I know it realistically is already hopeless...I'm still hoping for a miracle).

Hamish Harding is dying/dead on a submersible and meanwhile Brian’s out here at a Blink 182 gig, picking fights with Cardi B, and shooting his shot at only fans models on twitter.

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Oh this is like ZSL’s “Zoo keeper for a day” experiences. Which are for 8 year olds. The customers will not be doing anything unsupervised, and a trained mechanic will go back and do it all again properly afterwards. It is just marketing fluff.

Theory I've heard on that (so right/wrong, don't know) is that the thinking a day or two back was at best is there might potentially be one shot at a rescue.

Out of all the possible assets world wide y chance the French vessel L'Atlante (?) was best placed to get to the scene PDQ with all on board that might be required.

OTOH getting Magellan on site was supposedly logistically much more complex, and all that had the potential to absorb effort/time that would be better used assisting the French vessel.

Unlike most of MN I'm far from an expert but there are some key differences - the Kursk's crew almost certainly could have been rescued if the Russians had a accepted international help where as it seem the odds of even finding the Titan are pretty slim. It also appears that the Russians were not protecting an unknown bit of tech whereas it seems from the previous recovery of aircraft from the sea floor that the US do have something that they perhaps don't want to reveal to other nations. I'm not saying this is the right approach (I don't know enough to make that call) I was just speculating as to why they may be reluctant to expose their rescue efforts to all comers.

For Brian it seems he's living his best life.

For Hamish, not so much.

Brian is behaving repulsively. It's actually very disturbing.

You couldn't pay me to be bolted into that thing on dry land, never mind diving to the depths of the ocean. Oh my god

Am I correct in thinking that Brian wasn't raised by Hamish? ie I'm wondering how close they are?

Brian has said on Twitter that he has ASD. I wonder if now would be the time for someone to suggest that he steps away from Twitter. I can't see the tweets he's receiving getting any kinder especially as people are uncovering details about his jail time.

HH is obviously just his mother’s husband. He doesn’t see him as a father or even a family member.
Still bad form though.

What's his @?

I think Brian has issues and shouldn't be given additional exposure.

Yes, and the fact they're in trouble at the Titanic wreck site, the Titanic disaster has fascinated many people for a long time. It was a very common belief for a long time (and still is for some people) that Titanic was cursed, this feeds into that narrative.

It's really is disturbing because the thought of the torment they must be going through makes me feel panicky just as a stranger. I can't imagine actually knowing the people and being so cold-hearted about it. He sounds unhinged

Currents could have carried it in almost any direction. It is pitch black down there, too, and the subm may have drifted under part of the Titanic itself, and not be in open view even if they are in the right area.

Supposedly radio communications went dark less than two hours into the journey. Would they have reached the wreck in that time?

One very likely outcome is that they never find the Titan.

Perhaps it's his way of coping but he would be better off doing it privately. Regardless of his feelings towards Hamish, surely his behaviour is piling even more pain and distress on his mother?