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A search and rescue operation is currently underway to locate a submarine that went missing during an expedition to the Titanic.
The U.S. Coast Guard was looking for the submarine Monday morning after it disappeared during the expedition from St. John's, N.L. The infamous 1912 wreck is located more than 600 kilometres southeast of the province in the North Atlantic Ocean.
The trip to the Titanic was being run by OceanGate Expeditions, a U.S.-based company. It uses a five-person submersible named Titan to reach the wreckage 3,800 metres below the surface. OceanGate's website advertises a seven-night voyage to the Titanic for US$250,000 per person, or approximately CA$330,000.
"We are exploring and mobilizing all options to bring the crew back safely," an OceanGate spokesperson said in an email to CTV News. "Our entire focus is on the crewmembers in the submersible and their families."
Those tours are a series of five eight-day missions to the Titanic with the money raised by tourists going towards Titanic research. Posts on social media show the ship launched from the St. John's area last week.
Did they really have 5 people in this?? Or do they have a larger version??
I haven't seen it in this thread, but you know what the best part about this is? They're literally bolted into this god damn thing from the outside lmao. What a bunch of clowns. [Reply]
Originally Posted by dlphg9:
I haven't seen it in this thread, but you know what the best part about this is? They're literally bolted into this god damn thing from the outside lmao. What a bunch of clowns.
When you have so much money common sense evades you. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Kiimosabi:
Cracking open and drowning sounds awful
but preferable to some of the other ways to go down there
At those pressures, if it 'cracks' it's going to implode instananeously. Or the water pressure will blast water in there so hard that the parties inside are essentially vaporized by it.
Again, the pressures at those depths are just beyond comprehension. There wasn't some slow drip and a drowning like The Abyss. If anything went even a little bit wrong and the hull was breached, those guys were dead within a couple seconds - TOPS. [Reply]
Originally Posted by DJ's left nut:
At those pressures, if it 'cracks' it's going to implode instananeously. Or the water pressure will blast water in there so hard that the parties inside are essentially vaporized by it.
Again, the pressures at those depths are just beyond comprehension. There wasn't some slow drip and a drowning like The Abyss. If anything went even a little bit wrong and the hull was breached, those guys were dead within a couple seconds - TOPS.
Originally Posted by DJ's left nut:
At those pressures, if it 'cracks' it's going to implode instananeously. Or the water pressure will blast water in there so hard that the parties inside are essentially vaporized by it.
Again, the pressures at those depths are just beyond comprehension. There wasn't some slow drip and a drowning like The Abyss. If anything went even a little bit wrong and the hull was breached, those guys were dead within a couple seconds - TOPS.
And somehow this dude was able to get several rich people to pay a quarter of a mil to jump in this hunk of shit. [Reply]
Here's what I don't get - don't we have extremely powerful sonar sensors all over the place out there?
If it imploded, those sensors are gonna pick up the noise. It's not gonna be a gentle squish.
Yet it seems like governments (us included) are still sending help out there. So wouldn't that suggest that we don't think it crumpled up like a beer can?
The absolute worst possibility would seem to be getting to the surface, being lost because your tether snapped and slowly asphyxiating while you're literally above the water. [Reply]
I was thinking of the scene where Ed Harris's ex wife (mary elizabeth mastrantino or something like that) drown herself to get towed.
I mean c'mon - if you've got water coming in through an opening like that, how's a compromised hull not gonna buckle like it's made of tinfoil? [Reply]
Originally Posted by DJ's left nut:
Here's what I don't get - don't we have extremely powerful sonar sensors all over the place out there?
If it imploded, those sensors are gonna pick up the noise. It's not gonna be a gentle squish.
Yet it seems like governments (us included) are still sending help out there. So wouldn't that suggest that we don't think it crumpled up like a beer can?
The absolute worst possibility would seem to be getting to the surface, being lost because your tether snapped and slowly asphyxiating while you're literally above the water.
They're stuck inside the Titanic like a septic tank! [Reply]
What is there to research? Seriously. You know everything about the ship and the history. And unless you're planning on raising that sucker off the bottom of the ocean, I just don't get what you're going to further research.
exactly
"yeah lets spend our lives researching how fast ships rust by going under the ocean 2 miles instead of just putting some metal in salt water and doing math" [Reply]
That dude also has posts where he says, the sub got lost for 5 hours when he did the piece on it..he was in the control room and their response was to turn off the wifi so they couldn't tweet about it..
Yea that certainly seems A-ok uh huh.
Weirdest part is how this dude didn't think to you know talk about that at all.
this tweet makes me think there was a catastrophic hull breach
they had 7 different ways to surface, and the final 7th should have been an automatic surface by time, using a sand clock which wouldnt fail due to electric issues.....so if the ballasts failed and the sand clock failed i think it has to be a hull failure [Reply]
Originally Posted by DJ's left nut:
At those pressures, if it 'cracks' it's going to implode instananeously. Or the water pressure will blast water in there so hard that the parties inside are essentially vaporized by it.
Again, the pressures at those depths are just beyond comprehension. There wasn't some slow drip and a drowning like The Abyss. If anything went even a little bit wrong and the hull was breached, those guys were dead within a couple seconds - TOPS.
They said the hull was carbon fiber. And while that is stupid strong it is also brittle in a way steel isnt. Part of me wonders if they had an issue upon decent and it just imploded. It's strange that comms went off and just never came back. Could be an implosion or a total power failure. Could be a publicity stunt to get the worlds attention. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Pawnmower:
this tweet makes me think there was a catastrophic hull breach
they had 7 different ways to surface, and the final 7th should have been an automatic surface by time, using a sand clock which wouldnt fail due to electric issues.....so if the ballasts failed and the sand clock failed i think it has to be a hull failure
Yeah, at this point, I find it very unlikely that the submersible will make it to the surface. And even if it does, it would still have to be retrieved to be unsealed to let oxygen in so they don't suffocate since it was bolted down...
I don't think it's likely that it's caught on debris near the Titanic and I believe that at some point between Sunday and now that it imploded due to a breach, which to be quite honest, would be the most merciful way to go out in this instance.
What DJLN said would be the absolute worst way, or being stuck at the bottom with virtually no possible chance at anyone being able to recover the vessel and pop it open in time. [Reply]
