OT Rescue mission launched for Titanic submarine with five people aboard after it went missing.

[SlyPokerDog]

Rescue mission launched for Titanic submarine with five people aboard after it went missing on voyage to see wreck of liner 12,500ft below Atlantic Ocean: Tourists pay $250k a ticket

• The Boston Coastguard is trying to locate the Titan submersible
• The Titanic wreckage sits in the ocean bed around 370 miles from Newfoundland
• OceanGate Expeditions is one of the only companies that runs the tours

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...ing-groups-Titanic-wreckage-goes-missing.html

 

[Voodoo]

And this is why I would never ever board one of these things for any reason, good luck finding that thing. Sad news for the people on board but yeah good luck.

 

[Phatguysrule]

And this is why I would never ever board one of these things for any reason, good luck finding that thing. Sad news for the people on board but yeah good luck.

Yeah, doesn't sound good.

Should be able to float it unless it somehow lost structural integrity. And once it reached the surface they should be able to make contact.

If it hasn't surfaced yet... That seems bad..

 

[riverman]

I'm claustrophobic so these stories really freak me out. I was offered submarine duty in the navy and told them no way...I hope they find these folks

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Was reading that the sub can't navigate on its own, it has to receive text messages from the surface.

 

[Phatguysrule]

Was reading that the sub can't navigate on its own, it has to receive text messages from the surface.

That's insane...

 

[Shaboid]

Was reading that the sub can't navigate on its own, it has to receive text messages from the surface.

Talk about a design flaw. Geez

 

[Natebishop3]

Was reading that the sub can't navigate on its own, it has to receive text messages from the surface.

 

[Voodoo]

Was reading that the sub can't navigate on its own, it has to receive text messages from the surface.

Hope they don’t have T-Mobile, my service sucks!

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Titanic tourist submarine with five aboard including billionaire was just above wreck when communications suddenly went dead - amid fears it is stuck on seabed 12,500ft down with air to last until 7am Thursday

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Race to get drone to Titanic wreck and search for missing tourist sub in operation that would be 11,000 feet deeper than the deepest successful undersea rescue operation

 

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[riverman]

Am I to understand that they named a submarine "Titanic?"

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Am I to understand that they named a submarine "Titanic?"

Titan.

 

[Phatguysrule]

How does this sub not have an inflatable buoy that just inflates and brings the sub to the surface in case of an emergency?

 

[Phatguysrule]

 

[SlyPokerDog]

How does this sub not have an inflatable buoy that just inflates and brings the sub to the surface in case of an emergency?

Read the article, to save money they made this sub with "off-the-shelf parts."

I guess Home Depot and Harbor Freight didn't have any damn inflatable buoys.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Read the article, to save money they made this sub with "off-the-shelf parts."

I guess Home Depot and Harbor Freight didn't have any damn inflatable buoys.

 

[Phatguysrule]

Read the article, to save money they made this sub with "off-the-shelf parts."

I guess Home Depot and Harbor Freight didn't have any damn inflatable buoys.

At $250k per ticket I guess you have to cut corners.... Imagine having to pay $260k per ticket to have a low tech proven system (a balloon) which would almost certainly save your life in every emergency short of instantaneous implosion...

That extra $10k would just be too much of a cross to bear...

 

[Chris Craig]

Titan.

The name of the ship in The Wreck of the Titan by Morgan Robertson, a prophetic book that detailed a ship like the Titanic sinking, almost exactly how, where, and when it sank, written 14 years before the famous tragedy.

 

[Chris Craig]

Read the article, to save money they made this sub with "off-the-shelf parts."

I guess Home Depot and Harbor Freight didn't have any damn inflatable buoys.

If that's true they are out of business. About to be sued to all hell anyway.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

The name of the ship in The Wreck of the Titan by Morgan Robertson, a prophetic book that detailed a ship like the Titanic sinking, almost exactly how, where, and when it sunk, written 14 years before the famous tragedy.

Nice trivia pull, I forgot all about that!

 

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[julius]

I'm not eve sure I'd want to ride in something like that *above* the water let alone in the ocean down 3K meters. Hell, I wouldn't want to ride in that thing in Firwood Lake (the name of the pond at Laurelhurst Park).

 

[yankeesince59]

And this is why I would never ever board one of these things for any reason, good luck finding that thing. Sad news for the people on board but yeah good luck.

Yeah, I haven't heard if there was a distress signal or any other communication had been made. But at that depth, if there was a sudden structural failure, death would come instantly.

 

[yankeesince59]

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According to this, everyone signed a "massive waiver" before being allowed on the craft;

https://apple.news/AlT5fSt0xRJWxCa48Mmjp6g (scroll down for video)

 

[SlyPokerDog]

They have one window so that's where they put the toilet.

There is no way I could sit cross-legged like that for hours and/or days. I'd be using the pooping window a lot!

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Read the article, to save money they made this sub with "off-the-shelf parts."

I guess Home Depot and Harbor Freight didn't have any damn inflatable buoys.

I was kidding about getting parts from Home Depot and Harbor Freight but I was just watching an old interview on CNN with the dude who designed the sub and he used parts from... Camping World.

 

[THE HCP]

Hey kinda’ on this same subject…..the other day I got back to my hotel from our job site….only about 2 miles. Couldn’t find my Apple Watch. I rarely take it off, but must have sat it down. I used my FINDMY app on my phone and saw it moving a couple blocks away from work…. I started pinging it like crazy. All of a sudden on the map I could see it was heading back to work. Got a call from one of the guys in charge and said they found it. So somebody stole my watch and got freaked out when it was making all that noise and returned it. Phew!
So maybe on the next one they strap an AppleWatch on the side and this wouldn’t even be a story?
#iSub

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Hey kinda’ on this same subject…..the other day I got back to my hotel from our job site….only about 2 miles. Couldn’t find my Apple Watch. I rarely take it off, but must have sat it down. I used my FINDMY app on my phone and saw it moving a couple blocks away from work…. I started pinging it like crazy. All of a sudden on the map I could see it was heading back to work. Got a call from one of the guys in charge and said they found it. So somebody stole my watch and got freaked out when it was making all that noise and returned it. Phew!
So maybe on the next one they strap an AppleWatch on the side and this wouldn’t even be a story?
#iSub

I LIKE THIS IDEA!

But we need proof of concept that it will work.

Put the watch on and jump into the ocean, when you reach 12,ooo ft send me a text message.