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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??
Originally Posted by ReynardMuldrake:
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.
I think that would be the worst way to go out.
Implosion would mean they don't feel anything and aren't suffering.
If they're stuck at the bottom knowing they have little hope...I'm not sure if that's any better than surfacing and dying. At least maybe, if they were to perish, it would be through hypothermia instead of asphyxiation?
I really hope they make it, but things aren't looking good... [Reply]
Originally Posted by Rams Fan:
I think that would be the worst way to go out.
Implosion would mean they don't feel anything and aren't suffering.
If they're stuck at the bottom knowing they have little hope...I'm not sure if that's any better than surfacing and dying. At least maybe, if they were to perish, it would be through hypothermia instead of asphyxiation?
I really hope they make it, but things aren't looking good...
The damn thing could even be on the surface and no one can see it. They literally have no way to open it.
From what I read they could suffocate on the surface waiting for rescue. [Reply]
I may be missing a few, but in this thread we've developed theories of death by...
Crushed by ocean pressure
Asphyxiated in the deep sea
Asphyxiated on the surface
Bends
Murder
Hypothermia in the deep sea
Overheating on the surface
I'll throw in suicide if a person can sharpen a game controller into a blade.
What else do we have? Was there a tiger in the sub? Does it having spinning mixer blades that periodically sweep through the passenger cabin?
I hope these guys get out somehow, but if they do, they should never ever take any kind of risk again. They will have used up all of their luck. [Reply]
Thank God my claustrophobia and acrophobia keep me from doing stupid extreme shit like going to the bottom of the ocean in a 55 gallon drum jammed in with 5 other idiots only to die of oxygen deprivation or climbing Mt Everest with 5 other idiots sleeping in polar conditions only to die from oxygen deprivation.
I would rather be a rapper...........oh shit I just got shot. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Rain Man:
I may be missing a few, but in this thread we've developed theories of death by...
Crushed by ocean pressure
Asphyxiated in the deep sea
Asphyxiated on the surface
Bends
Murder
Hypothermia in the deep sea
Overheating on the surface
I'll throw in suicide if a person can sharpen a game controller into a blade.
What else do we have? Was there a tiger in the sub? Does it having spinning mixer blades that periodically sweep through the passenger cabin?
I hope these guys get out somehow, but if they do, they should never ever take any kind of risk again. They will have used up all of their luck.
The one and only time I went deep scuba diving and had to de-compress I told a joke about how Indians got into a war with each other over casinos and curry powder while in the decompression chamber.
I thought I cracked the other guys up but it turned out they had the bends.
Originally Posted by Rain Man:
I may be missing a few, but in this thread we've developed theories of death by...
Crushed by ocean pressure
Asphyxiated in the deep sea
Asphyxiated on the surface
Bends
Murder
Hypothermia in the deep sea
Overheating on the surface
I'll throw in suicide if a person can sharpen a game controller into a blade.
What else do we have? Was there a tiger in the sub? Does it having spinning mixer blades that periodically sweep through the passenger cabin?
I hope these guys get out somehow, but if they do, they should never ever take any kind of risk again. They will have used up all of their luck.
How bout a Megaladon swallowing the capsule. They're soon to be whale shit. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Rain Man:
I may be missing a few, but in this thread we've developed theories of death by...
Crushed by ocean pressure
Asphyxiated in the deep sea
Asphyxiated on the surface
Bends
Murder
Hypothermia in the deep sea
Overheating on the surface
I'll throw in suicide if a person can sharpen a game controller into a blade.
What else do we have? Was there a tiger in the sub? Does it having spinning mixer blades that periodically sweep through the passenger cabin?
I hope these guys get out somehow, but if they do, they should never ever take any kind of risk again. They will have used up all of their luck.
If that thing sprung a leak at depth, the pressure could create a water jet that could cut a person in half.
