Tourist submersible missing on visit to Titanic

[Anonymous]

https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2023/6/19/search-underway-as-titanic-tourist-sub-goes-missing-in-atlantic


This is terrifying.

David Concannon, an adviser to the company, said OceanGate lost contact with the sub on Sunday morning. It had a 96-hour oxygen supply, he said in an email to The Associated Press news agency on Monday afternoon.

“Now 32 hours since sub left surface,” said Concannon, adding that officials are working to get a remotely operated vehicle that can reach a depth of 6,000m (about 20,000 feet) to the site as soon as possible.

[Anonymous]

All this news on the sub and I suspect anyone reading thinks the same thing: they are not returning alive. That depth and something goes wrong either they run out of oxygen or they are crushed. It's been a full day since they went down.

[Anonymous]

This story is insane. But how are they going to rescue this sub? Send a military sub after it and tow it to the surface?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This story is insane. But how are they going to rescue this sub? Send a military sub after it and tow it to the surface?

The US Coast Guard and Halifax are sending search planes to look for the submersible now.

[Anonymous]

What a dumb thing to do.

[Anonymous]

They’re definitely dead.

[Anonymous]

I did not know this was even a thing.

[Anonymous]

I was reading an article on CBS and one of the guys who went down in it commented on how everything was basically off-the-shelf, i.e. they were using a video game controller as a means of steering the sub.

[Anonymous]

People have been visiting Titanic since Ballard found it. There is zero scientific value to the wreckage.

If you have the funds, it is no different than visiting the Library at Ephesus or the tomb of the holy sepelchure.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People have been visiting Titanic since Ballard found it. There is zero scientific value to the wreckage.

If you have the funds, it is no different than visiting the Library at Ephesus or the tomb of the holy sepelchure.

This, sad that they are lost but I don't understand why you would need to go.

[Anonymous]

I was reading that they have apparently 96hrs of oxygen supply. If the sub still has oxygen. It can’t return to the surface that sounds like a slow and excruciating death.

[Anonymous]

Because you can say you visited the site of the Titanic. If someone said that at a dinner party, I'm sure you'd say "Wow, how interesting. How was it?". One of the paying guests was a UK billionaire who had also gone to space. He must be the sort who lives for those special thrills that hardly anybody gets to do. It's a known pyschological thing that very wealthy people who've done all the usual thrills tend to seek out extreme experiences.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was reading that they have apparently 96hrs of oxygen supply. If the sub still has oxygen. It can’t return to the surface that sounds like a slow and excruciating death.

I hate to say it, but they’re better off being crushed.

[Anonymous]

They should have put an air tag in it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was reading that they have apparently 96hrs of oxygen supply. If the sub still has oxygen. It can’t return to the surface that sounds like a slow and excruciating death.

I hate to say it, but they’re better off being crushed.

I think in this case you just get sleepy. It is t like being strangled or drowning.