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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 FlaChief58:
None of the pics I've seen show the actual crew compartment, just the cap with the window
Even still. All of the discussion and images show the implosion to be incredibly violent. That's a lot of wholly intact components. Couldn't be too violent. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Detoxing:
Even still. All of the discussion and images show the implosion to be incredibly violent. That's a lot of wholly intact components. Couldn't be too violent.
It probably just separated immediately and thus didn’t have the air pocket needed to collapse. [Reply]
There’s a video somewhere of them making the sub but I can’t find it now. Those 2 titanium end caps were glued onto the carbon fiber hull with epoxy. Water probably got into that flange where the 2 metals meet and blew the entire thing apart. Death certainly wouldn’t be any slower. They probably found bone fragments [Reply]
Originally Posted by B_Ambuehl:
There’s a video somewhere of them making the sub but I can’t find it now. Those 2 titanium end caps were glued onto the carbon fiber hull with epoxy. Water probably got into that flange where the 2 metals meet and blew the entire thing apart. Death certainly wouldn’t be any slower. They probably found bone fragments
there was a Mythbusters where they took a diving suit and put a pig in it or something like that, and took it down to a certain depth (a fraction of this depth I'm sure) before depressurizing it. The pig just splurted and the helmet filled with blood [Reply]
Originally Posted by Detoxing:
Even still. All of the discussion and images show the implosion to be incredibly violent. That's a lot of wholly intact components. Couldn't be too violent.
To be fair, they were still descending when they lost contact. They were what, halfway down? It's clear now they never survived to reach the bottom. If they had, I think it would look a lot more violent. [Reply]
Anyone familiar with that epoxy resin and how durable it is? I bet that's what failed. I read another expert saying if you get so much as a leak tiny enough to fit a human hair that would be enough to trigger a massive implosion at depth. [Reply]