Tourist submersible missing on visit to Titanic

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I would love for there to be a happy ending to this horror story, but if there aren’t going to be any survivors, I hope they died really early on. Depressurization would be preferable to slowly running out of oxygen in a cramped space.

If you were going to go on a super risky excursion like this, would you bring a suicide method with you? Can you even buy cyanide pills?

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Anonymous wrote:May I ask a dumb question?

We have pics of the Titanic wreck, so clearly someone has been down there before? How did they live to tell the tale?

I think the first to take photos was an unmanned sub. But there have been manned subs, like Alvin, which is a spherical sub made out of titanium. The lost titan is different because it’s a tourist sub, not made by a huge research institution like Wood’s hole like Alvin.

Then why can't one of the subs like Alvin go down and get them.

A) they don’t know where the Titan is and B) it would probably take days to get a properly equipped research vessel out there.

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Anonymous wrote:If ever you want someone to die, pay for them to go on one of these submarine adventures. It will be a forever bon voyage.

Literally they couldn’t pay me to do this. Any amount. Boggles the mind that someone would pay 250k to take such a risk

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Anonymous wrote:I would love for there to be a happy ending to this horror story, but if there aren’t going to be any survivors, I hope they died really early on. Depressurization would be preferable to slowly running out of oxygen in a cramped space.

If you were going to go on a super risky excursion like this, would you bring a suicide method with you? Can you even buy cyanide pills?

Hasn't it been four days as of now? I think time has run out.

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Anonymous wrote:May I ask a dumb question?

We have pics of the Titanic wreck, so clearly someone has been down there before? How did they live to tell the tale?

Those pics were taken with a remote rover.

They may have been but everyone who watched Titanic when it came out knows James Cameron has been down there plenty of times. And he’s not the only one.

What did he go down in?

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Anonymous wrote:I would love for there to be a happy ending to this horror story, but if there aren’t going to be any survivors, I hope they died really early on. Depressurization would be preferable to slowly running out of oxygen in a cramped space.

If you were going to go on a super risky excursion like this, would you bring a suicide method with you? Can you even buy cyanide pills?

Hasn't it been four days as of now? I think time has run out.

It was said that they might possibly have enough oxygen to last into tomorrow. They had 4 days worth and started out on Sunday morning.

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If billionaires want to play like this then the cost is $250k and a bond of $1 bln to pay for search and rescue efforts.

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Anonymous wrote:Why doesn't a military sub assist?

How? A “normal” sub cannot dive that deep. And if there are military subs that can and do, I don’t think their governments would want that publicly known.

Military subs can descend to 3000ft. These guys are 12000fy below.

If you think its as simple as sending down a sub to scoop up the capsule or tether a sonar beacon to a submarine and drag it around hoping to detect a ping, then I have a bridge to sell to you.

It would be like flying a kite to catch a space shuttle.

How can a military sub only go to 3000 feet, but these capsules can go to 12,000? Just wondering why the technology is so different.

I don't know, why can't commercial airplanes go to space?

Because we can't send orcas to rescue them. Orcas can't fly.

I'm the PP to whom you're responding and I just spit out my water.

[Anonymous]

"because the passengers were sealed inside the vessel by bolts applied from the outside, "There's no way to escape, even if you rise to the surface by yourself. You cannot get out of the sub without a crew on the outside letting you out."

What? I can't believe they would do that.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65953872

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Anonymous wrote:Wendy Rush, the wife of Stockton Rush, is a descendant of the Ida and Isador Straus. Isador Straus is the founder of Macy’s and he and his wife died aboard the Titanic. I would link the nyt article, but there is a paywall

Misinformation!

R H Macy was the founder of what we know as the iconic Macy's dept store. He died of some disease in the late 1800s.
The store stayed in the Macy family for a bit, but was eventually acquired by the Strauss Brothers- the one brother and his wife died with the Titanic sinking.

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Anonymous wrote:May I ask a dumb question?

We have pics of the Titanic wreck, so clearly someone has been down there before? How did they live to tell the tale?

Those pics were taken with a remote rover.

They may have been but everyone who watched Titanic when it came out knows James Cameron has been down there plenty of times. And he’s not the only one.

What did he go down in?

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/james-cameron-said-diving-titanic-184618767.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall

There’s literally articles all over the net about this today. He’s even been to the Mariana Trench.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Stop FTLOG referring to the window as a portal.

It is spelled porthole!

WAIT, have we discussed the option of using a portal to get them out yet?!?

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Anonymous wrote:May I ask a dumb question?

We have pics of the Titanic wreck, so clearly someone has been down there before? How did they live to tell the tale?

Those pics were taken with a remote rover.

They may have been but everyone who watched Titanic when it came out knows James Cameron has been down there plenty of times. And he’s not the only one.

James Cameron went down some 33 times to see the wreckage of the Titanic, and on one of them he was also trapped for 16 hours...

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone think the vessel will actually ever be found? It's a literal needle in a huge haystack.

It's a FIGURATIVE needle in a haystack. A literal needle in a haystack would be a needle in a haystack.

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Anonymous wrote:I disagree that this isn't a traumatizing story. Obviously levels of trauma vary significantly and many many people are able to read (and even laugh ) about it without feeling any personal impact. But this is really tough to know about for "deep feeling" people, and it absolutely has a negative collective impact on mental health.

I hope these people are found and rescued, and that with their billions they will pay back the costs of being rescued from what I agree was entirely a vanity project at now great financial and emotional cost to the public. It's horrifying and I hope they are able to be saved. I can't imagine what their families are going through.

This is the best post and I agree 100%

Some people here should be ashamed of themselves.

The teen on board is especially upsetting.

Ok, but question for you two - how do you manage to get out of bed much less function on a daily basis with the amount of suffering and death that occurs every second around the world? I can think of many, many situations that are far worse for people (especially because they didn't put themselves in those situations!), that break my heart more than this. Yes, this is sad, it's sad when (almost anyone) dies, especially in a manner like this. But it's not remotely as sad as children dying of starvation, children being sold off into sex slavery, migrants dying trying to cross a body of water. I could go on and on. So if THIS is what you want to categorize as traumatizing, how do you handle everything else that's going on?