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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??
The more one reads about this, the more baffling it is that it wasn't illegal
No official maritime agency approved it, and of course their own whistle blowing employee spelled out the problems with its design and the inadequate tech they used to test its structural integrity
No reliable comms
No location beacon
Video game controls
On and on and on the list goes
May these people all find themselves in Heaven, but man alive you'd have to be an absolute fucking fool to climb aboard that thing [Reply]
Originally Posted by Chief Ten Beers:
The more one reads about this, the more baffling it is that it wasn't illegal
No official maritime agency approved it, and of course their own whistle blowing employee spelled out the problems with its design and the inadequate tech they used to test its structural integrity
No reliable comms
No location beacon
Video game controls
On and on and on the list goes
May these people all find themselves in Heaven, but man alive you'd have to be an absolute ****ing fool to climb aboard that thing
I'm not sure who is supposed to approve it out in international waters though
Also it just keeps getting weirder
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June 21, 2023, 5:56 p.m. ET
Anushka Patil
The submersible pilot’s spouse is descended from a famous couple who died on the Titanic.
Wendy Rush, the wife of Stockton Rush, the OceanGate chief executive who was piloting the submersible that disappeared Sunday during a dive to the Titanic wreckage, is a descendant of two first-class passengers who died when the ocean liner sank in 1912, archival records show.
Ms. Rush is a great-great-granddaughter of the retailing magnate Isidor Straus and his wife, Ida, two of the wealthiest people aboard the Titanic for its first voyage. Mr. Straus, born in 1845, was a co-owner of Macy’s department store.
Ms. Rush, born Wendy Hollings Weil, married Stockton Rush in 1986, according to a New York Times wedding announcement. Her LinkedIn page says that she has participated in three OceanGate expeditions to the Titanic wreckage in the last two years; that she serves as the company’s communications director; and that she is a longtime board member of the company’s charitable foundation.
Ms. Rush could not immediately be reached for comment for this item.
I wouldn't trust that dude just based on his face and voice alone. Sounds silly to say but.....he doesn't come off as a man who knows wtf he's doing. He sounds like a dreamer, not a doer, if that makes any sense.
He doesn't give off, "Im a precise structural engineer" vibes.
He talks like a wishy-washy DIYer.
I know the type. The same type of college educated guy who thinks he can work on his RestoMod in the garage, and then brings us mismatched, half-assed piles of shit to fix all the problems he created. [Reply]
I want to hear more about the person who took a look at the sub and demanded their money back and didn't go because that person has to feel like an absolute king of Good Decisions right now [Reply]
Originally Posted by Detoxing:
I wouldn't trust that dude just based on his face and voice alone. Sounds silly to say but.....he doesn't come off as a man who knows wtf he's doing. He sounds like a dreamer, not a doer, if that makes any sense.
He doesn't give off, "Im a precise structural engineer" vibes.
He talks like a wishy-washy DIYer.
I know the type. The same type of college educated guy who thinks he can work on his RestoMod in the garage, and then brings us mismatched, half-assed piles of shit to fix all the problems he created.
His home made sub worked about as well as the home hair cut he gave himself. [Reply]
