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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??
Man all these billionaires are great with libertarian principles until their submarine dies 13k feet down then they expect all those services they don't wanna pay for to save them. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Mecca:
Man all these billionaires are great with libertarian principles until their submarine dies 13k feet down then they expect all those services they don't wanna pay for to save them.
I thought I was in the RIP Gangsta Boon thread and was sincerely confused by this. [Reply]
Originally Posted by ReynardMuldrake:
Meanwhile the occupants get tossed around like shoes in a dryer, covered in puke and shit while waiting days to slowly suffocate in the darkness.
I really tried to hold in my laughter but I just couldn't do it. God damn it. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Mecca:
Man all these billionaires are great with libertarian principles until their submarine dies 13k feet down then they expect all those services they don't wanna pay for to save them.
The families should have to pay back everything that was spent to try and rescue them. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Mecca:
Man all these billionaires are great with libertarian principles until their submarine dies 13k feet down then they expect all those services they don't wanna pay for to save them.
The same lack of regulations that made them rich also built them a watery grave lol. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Kiimosabi:
The water temperature is apparently 34 degrees down there. So add that to the misery
Go ahead and that to this post.
Originally Posted by ReynardMuldrake:
Meanwhile the occupants get tossed around like shoes in a dryer, covered in puke and shit while waiting days to slowly suffocate in the darkness.
Tossed around in your own shit, vomit and piss in total darkness at the bottom of the ocean while freezing your frickin' nads off. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Mecca:
Man all these billionaires are great with libertarian principles until their submarine dies 13k feet down then they expect all those services they don't wanna pay for to save them.
Originally Posted by PunkinDrublic:
The same lack of regulations that made them rich also built them a watery grave lol.
Originally Posted by PunkinDrublic:
The same lack of regulations that made them rich also built them a watery grave lol.
They were well aware of the risks of going 2.5 miles under the Atlantic Ocean in a carbon fiber and titanium trash can with an Xbox controller. [Reply]
Originally Posted by lcarus:
They were well aware of the risks of going 2.5 miles under the Atlantic Ocean in a carbon fiber and titanium trash can with an Xbox controller.
"They knew what they were getting into! I say, let em crash!" [Reply]
