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[Corbin]

I wouldn’t do this but it’s pretty interesting to hear they have 4 days left of oxygen left. They dived Sunday morning which means they have 2 days left now.


View: https://youtu.be/qDkYKV-CNxE

 

[Corbin]

Apparently tourist sub to view Titanic, 250k for a ticket.

 

[Selassie I]

I hate to say it... but this means those people are not going to be saved and are hopefully already dead.

If they have to sit in that tiny tube with their teeth chattering from the icy cold while they wait for the oxygen to run out... what a fucking nightmare of a death.

At least if the sub was crushed from the pressure they would have died in 1 second or less.

 

[RamsSince1969]

I'll never be able to hear the song "Yellow Submarine" without this crossing my mind. Just horrible if they are found dead.

 

[Dodgersrf]

They are running out of time.

They shouldn't have even done the dive.
I read that this was going to be the only dive this year, due to weather.
This one was almost canceled as well, but a break in the weather led them to believe it was a good idea to go ahead.

Looks like the Titanic, may not be done taking lives.

This is horrible.

 

[CGI_Ram]

It certainly looks grim and is an interesting story to see where it goes.

If they lost controls and are simply drifting, but maintained pressure... I wonder how far they would drift in ocean currents? Is that even a possible scenario, to drift losing controls like that?

Could they be tangled in wreckage?

If they depressurized and imploded, the wreckage should be on the bottom near the Titanic?

 

[Selassie I]

It certainly looks grim and is an interesting story to see where it goes.

If they lost controls and are simply drifting, but maintained pressure... I wonder how far they would drift in ocean currents? Is that even a possible scenario, to drift losing controls like that?

Could they be tangled in wreckage?

If they depressurized and imploded, the wreckage should be on the bottom near the Titanic?

Looks like the currents in the wreck area can be 4 knots... or 4.6 MPH.

When we are out diving we will drop a floating bouy that is attached to a line with an anchor like weight. We drop that first to mark the area we are trying to dive on. It helps the divers find the spot when they are dropping down to the bottom and it also serves as a nice reference point for the boat captain (especially if the boat is not anchored).

You'd be surprised how far away a diver can be from the spot they were trying to drop down on because of currents less than 4 knots... and only in 100ft or less of water. This experimentally built sub was going down 2 miles.

That thing could be miles away from the spot now and still traveling. Plus the boat on the surface may be facing current or wind trying to force it in a completely different direction.

I'm thinking it imploded due to design flaw. It is/was an experimentally built vehicle that had no certifications of any kind.

 

[CGI_Ram]

I'm thinking it imploded due to design flaw. It is/was an experimentally built vehicle that had no certifications of any kind.

That seems most likely.

Would something like this vehicle have a pinger? I am not caught up on many stories or videos, so not sure if this is known?

 

[TSFH Fan]

Lawsuit allegations from a former employee:

. . . the viewport at the forward of the submersible was only built to a certified pressure of 1,300 meters, although OceanGate intended to take passengers down to depths of 4,000 meters. Lochridge learned that the viewport manufacturer would only certify to a depth of 1,300 meters due to experimental design of the viewport supplied by OceanGate, which was out of the Pressure Vessels for Human Occupancy (“PVHO”) standards. OceanGate refused to pay for the manufacturer to build a viewport that would meet the required depth of 4,000 meters.

Missing Titanic Sub Once Faced Massive Lawsuit Over Depths It Could Safely Travel To

Court documents reveal a former OceanGate employee had several safety complaints over the tourist submersible—and then he was fired.

newrepublic.com

Not saying a blown window is what happened, but if costs were being cut there, it makes you wonder where else costs were cut (not counting the wireless logitech game controller). Safety tests were skipped for reasons that may have been true or not:

Lochridge was particularly concerned about “non-destructive testing performed on the hull of the Titan” but he was “repeatedly told that no scan of the hull or Bond Line could be done to check for delaminations, porosity and voids of sufficient adhesion of the glue being used due to the thickness of the hull.” He was also told there was no such equipment that could conduct a test like that.

The world has been weird lately. Maybe the tourists will pop up on some soundstage somewhere and we'll get a Capricorn One - Titanic cross-over movie epic.

 

[RamFan503]

Interesting that the sub was "only" rated for 13,000 ft and the dive was for 12,500. Seems like a pretty small window.

 

[rdlkgliders]

Agreed!

 

[oldnotdead]

I can't believe that they are bolted in. I also can't believe they are using a cheap game controller to operate the damn thing. So what if they died because the batteries in the game controller died. WTF.

Even if they found them right now they have no way of saving them. It's going to take over the time they have left just to get the equipment out to them. Why doesn't the mother ship have sonar equipment on board to locate them? Because they assumed it would never be needed?

Idiots who paid for a one way ticket. Just looking at that thing, a normal person would have serious doubts about it's safety. That company is out of business as of the day they went missing. Especially since it's come out that they fired the engineer who raised safety issues.

Well these bored thrill seeking rich people are getting their money's worth. A slow agonizing way to die, drawn out for days. If they were smart they would all go to sleep to save hours of O2. Scared people breathe faster so IMO if they aren't dead now they will be before the max time that's being quoted. Apparently they never even made it down to the wreck so the Gulf Current will wash them up on some Irish beach in a year or so or they will crash into some oil platform. Even if they made it to the surface there is no way for them to get out on their own. Totally stupid design. If you are going to bolt yourself in then why is it only accessible from outside? The bolting should have been from the inside. There should have been a failsafe for it to immediately surface if there was any problem and they could open up the damn thing and abandon it into an inflatable lifeboat.

Why would these rich idiots be completely blind to the obvious danger?

 

[Corbin]

I hate to say it... but this means those people are not going to be saved and are hopefully already dead.

If they have to sit in that tiny tube with their teeth chattering from the icy cold while they wait for the oxygen to run out... what a fucking nightmare of a death.

At least if the sub was crushed from the pressure they would have died in 1 second or less.

I'll never be able to hear the song "Yellow Submarine" without this crossing my mind. Just horrible if they are found dead.

They are running out of time.

They shouldn't have even done the dive.
I read that this was going to be the only dive this year, due to weather.
This one was almost canceled as well, but a break in the weather led them to believe it was a good idea to go ahead.

Looks like the Titanic, may not be done taking lives.

This is horrible.

It certainly looks grim and is an interesting story to see where it goes.

If they lost controls and are simply drifting, but maintained pressure... I wonder how far they would drift in ocean currents? Is that even a possible scenario, to drift losing controls like that?

Could they be tangled in wreckage?

If they depressurized and imploded, the wreckage should be on the bottom near the Titanic?

Very intriguing and interesting views.

It seems the chances of them surviving are slim to none honestly. The bottom of the ocean is equivalent to going to the moon. I’m very surprised the deep sea subs haven’t had a notable accident before as everything does eventually.

Can you imagine not being able to surface but being trapped down there? Fuck!!

 

[Corbin]

View: https://www.instagram.com/p/CturIk5SvHf/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

 

[Londoner]

Maybe I’m a heartless bastard, but I have no interest in this story whatsoever and cannot fathom (bad pun completely intended) why it’s the lead story on the news, at least here in the UK.

People with more money than sense have taken a risk and it looks like it has backfired. Boohoo.

 

[norcalramfan]

View: https://www.instagram.com/p/CturIk5SvHf/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Rich folk went down with the Titanic as well. Some conspiracy theorists think it was intentional because they opposed the central bank created by the Federal Reserve.
I wonder what this Billionaires business was and who inherits.

 

[Merlin]

Terrible story. Rich or not that's a nasty way to go and wouldn't wish it on anyone.

It's like losing a sailor overboard. The not knowing, and putting yourself in his shoes and what it would feel like with ocean to the horizon on all sides. If they don't make it I'll agree with @Selassie I in hoping they got crushed because at least that's a quick ticket out.

 

[Memento]

That's why I'll never go on a submarine. I'm sorry, I don't want it to be busted, knowing I'll be dead the second the oceanic pressure crushes me or - worse still - running out of oxygen in the dark.

Maybe other people can handle it. I know I can't.

 

[CGI_Ram]

Thats a long way down, 13,000ft. Over two miles. Yikes!

The more I read the more I think it was crushed under pressure.

It takes 2.5hrs to reach the bottom, according to link below. Contact was lost 1.5hrs into the trip which would be 7,800ft/2400m down.

The title of this trip was “Mission V”. I assume they had 4 previous trips. Stress fractures and no way to test for that is probably what doomed them.

Titan sub implosion: What we know about catastrophic event

The Titan submersible suffered a violent collapse inwards deep underwater in the North Atlantic.

www.bbc.com

https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/20/us/titanic-shipwreck-vessel-missing-tuesday/index.html#:~:text=A%20Titanic%20dive%20takes%20about,the%20bottom%2C%20the%20website%20says.

 

[XXXIVwin]

Lighting from Camping World? Steering via a PlayStation controller?

An "experimental submersible vessel that has not been approved or certified by any regulatory body"?

What could go wrong?

CBS Story On OceanGate’s Missing Titanic Sub Goes Viral After Reporter David Pogue Got Jitters Over Its “Jerry-Rigged” Design

CBS's David Pogue was submerged in the OceanGate submarine and raised questions about its safety months before it went missing on Titantic mission.

deadline.com