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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??
If they were actually alive and just sitting there, then I wonder if they killed the owner lol. I could only imagine the heated discussions as you sit and wait for death. [Reply]
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A Canadian aircraft searching for the missing Titan submersible detected “banging” in 30-minute intervals coming from the area the divers disappeared
wow, the all-male crew comes out, just in time for pride month! [Reply]
Originally Posted by dlphg9:
If they were actually alive and just sitting there, then I wonder if they killed the owner lol. I could only imagine the heated discussions as you sit and wait for death.
Yeah, I don't know.
Curious, if they're still alive, if they're battling each other for survival or if they all have accepted their fate together.
i can’t believe this is a real sentence but fyi: the stepson of the billionaire who is stuck on the titanic sub that is coping by going to blink-182 concerts was recently in jail on stalking and harassment charges and also threatened to shoot up an edm festival
If the bubble didn't pop and they have roughly 40 hours of oxygen left. They would almost need to have equipment now and descending to them. Just seems there won't be time other than the recovery of bodies. Hell, who knows if the carbon dioxide is even being scrubbed? They could be already dead or asleep but dying.
Originally Posted by BigRedChief:
If you are paying $100K-$250K for a day cruise in a cramped tube just to glimpse the Titanic, if you are not a billionaire, why are you paying that much for fun?
Type II fun. Awful while it's happening, but sublime when you get to entertain your rich friends with stories about it later. [Reply]
Originally Posted by srvy:
If the bubble didn't pop and they have roughly 40 hours oxygen left. They would almost need to have equipment now and depending too them. Just seems there won't be time other than recovery of bodies. He'll who knows if the carbon dioxide is even being scrubed. They could be already dead or asleep but dieing.
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Yeah, they have oxygen until early Thursday afternoon in a best-case scenario. And say they were found Thursday morning, it's still going to take hours to get equipment out there + additional hours to bring the sub to the surface AND open it. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Rams Fan:
Yeah, they have oxygen until early Thursday afternoon in a best-case scenario. And say they were found Thursday morning, it's still going to take hours to get equipment out there + additional hours to bring the sub to the surface AND open it.
But if one of them kills the other four, that's a lot more oxygen. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Rams Fan:
Yeah, they have oxygen until early Thursday afternoon in a best-case scenario. And say they were found Thursday morning, it's still going to take hours to get equipment out there + additional hours to bring the sub to the surface AND open it.
Could you imagine if they had enough air to reach the surface but not enough to last through decompression? Suffocating on the surface of the ocean because you can't wait for the air pressure to stabilize? Like a starving man surrounded by food. [Reply]
