MISSING TITAN SUB - THREAD 5

[tortoishelll]

Thread 5 - a continuation.

My heart aches for those poor men and their families. 💔😔

Implosion is preferable to the alternative tbh. At least it was quick.

I knew what SirChenjins meant, but I’ve decided I prefer to believe that her uncle is in fact either Methuselah, or the the Count of Saint Germain (who switched his field of scientific study from alchemy to marine biology).

What I don't understand is if it imploded it would have shattered into a million pieces as shown on that animation, how have they been able to find specific bits of it?

I think the difference is that the majority of passengers and crew of the Titanic died on the surface because the sea was freezing.

A few days later their bodies were pulled out, some to be taken to Canada for burial but most bodies were wrapped in sheets, weighted and buried at sea.

What has made me sadder is learning they detected the anomaly thought to be the Titan's implosion on Monday. So they were trapped down there to some degree, and without comms, for some amount of time. Awful for all concerned.

Some parts were not inside the pressurised capsule - for example the landing gear underneath and the tail fin area. They would just come off when the central capsule imploded.

Totally incorrect

Agreed. What is wrong with people?

How so? The different time zones this is all reported in make it hard to grasp, but I read the US navy detected an anomaly on Monday, and the Titan went missing on Sunday morning.

@milkyaqua

The US Navy detected sounds "consistent with an implosion" shortly after OceanGate's Titan submersible lost contact, a navy official has said.

Eh? No, they weren’t at all. It was immediate, less than a fraction of a second.

Most reputable sources are saying the observed acoustic anomaly happened at pretty much the same time the sub stopped communicating...

Good. I have scanned the page that reported they heard the anomaly on Monday and they have removed that timeframe. I think it was a reporter confused by timezones.

No, they weren’t trapped. The implosion will have meant they died instantly and wouldn’t have had a clue what was happening.

Yes, I understand how sub implosions occur, and that is merciful in terms of their awareness of suffering - it was a news report that mentioned Monday, and it has now been ammended/removed as the time of occurrence.

Although sadly and not widely reported at the time on Challenger was the crew capsule was intact and fell to the ocean floor at very high speed.

Yes. Awful.

Gosh, so if fell to the floor before imploding! That's horrific. They'd have known they were falling, I imagine.

If I were that boy's mother, my grief for my husband would be wiped out by my sheer rage that he had effectively killed my beautiful child.

Irrational, maybe - but I don't think I could forgive this.

Very interesting - thank you.

Sky News website is still crammed full of articles about this right now, the cynic in me is thinking this tragedy has been dragged out to distract us especially considering the Us Navy knew pretty much that an implosion had happened.

The question is…distract us from what? 🧐

Indeed.

They are people.

Would anyone be making any comments about someone being blond, having blue eyes, being overweight, whatever? If appearance isn't relevant to the discussion, there's no need to mention it.

Because it's virtual signalling, the only value that some posters are capable of.

The opportunity to demonstrate superiority, on a thread that has generally been very respectful. The main distasteful interludes have been from the scolders popping in.
The opening of thread 4 was an unfortunate response to the drive by scoldings.

I find the infantilisation of the 19 year old really odd. Over 11,000 of America’s dead soldiers in Vietnam were 19 years or younger (average age of dead soldiers was 23).

It is young, and it is a tragedy, but he was not a child. He was the age at which a lot of young men find they are full of testosterone and bravado and willingness to take risks.

Some people here almost seem to be want it to be true that he was “terrified” or that his father made him do it. I think it is unlikely that a terrified young man would have been allowed in the sub as he would have been perceived as a danger to everyone else on there.

Countless 19 year old young men have died through misadventure, and countless more will continue to do so. In that sense this young man’s death is tragic but sadly not that unusual.

The US Navy didn’t “know.”

It seems they detected a sound but they won’t have turned around to the Coastguard (USCG) and said “it’s definitely the submersible so don’t bother rushing and searching”, chance are the USCG would have said oh, thanks and factored the info into the continuing search.

The USCG themselves were issuing fairly bare bones/objective statements so therewas plenty of room left in the news cycle for other stories.

You’ll have to ask the media about why they chose to cover the story in the way they did.