Tourist submersible missing on visit to Titanic

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Anonymous wrote:It took Ballard 73 years to find the wreck. If you think they are going to find them if they did implode within weeks, you are sorely mistaken.

Exploration and discovery are not without risk be it on the ocean floor or in space.

after a certain number of days - i assume they won't keep looking. is there any point in finding the vessel once weeks have passed? even if they do find its location - i don't think there is any way to raise it.

Can a radar on a boat even identify something that far down? Or do you mean researchers might send down an unmanned device to look for it.

no idea how they are searching the depths. i really think we're never going to find them and will just have to assume what happened.

Post article had a good summary of how they are searching the depths (and why they can't bring it up from the bottom if found there)
There's also the point that those 7 surfacing safety features may have worked and they still can't find it because the ocean is just that big. If everyone is unconscious they are locked in and will have no way to open the door or call for help

https://wapo.st/3pdxssC

The door bolts from the outside. They may be on the surface looking out at clear skies while they suffocate

Why doesn't it have a locator beacon?

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I would think long and hard about this if I was there: enough air for 5 people for 40 hours. Or perhaps 200 hours for one. Sort of a what would you do puzzle.

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Anonymous wrote:It is the same excess of wealth, hubris, and reliance on flawed, yet cutting edge technology that led to the sinking of the Titanic. The parallels give me chills. What an unnecessary nightmare. I hope for a good outcome.

Although well-intentioned, this kind of tourism should stop. The parallels drawn in other posts to Gettysburg, etc., aren't the same because those are far more accessible- no great wealth required.

Why should it stop? These people spent their own money and went in voluntarily having assessed the risks and resolved them to their satisfaction. Presumably, with the kind of money the spent on a frolic, they were pretty sophisticated.

If it turns out they guessed wrong, that’s on them. People have a right to decide things for themselves.

Great, but what about the people who are rescuing them? and the taxpayers paying that bill? It's not all about the people who went.

You have a valid point about the rescuers but not the tax money spent. That is not an important consideration when we are talking about peoples' lives. Regardless of what you think got them into that situation.

You people are soulless a$$holes.

Funny because we don’t pull out all the stops to quell the violence in the inner city that is destroying thousands of young black kids who just had the misfortune to be born there, but sure, let’s spend millions to rescue a bunch of privileged people who willingly put themselves in this pickle. Maybe if they were as careful with their lives as they were with their businesses, this wouldn’t have happened. No one else’s life should be put in jeopardy for this kind of nonsense.

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Anonymous wrote:I would think long and hard about this if I was there: enough air for 5 people for 40 hours. Or perhaps 200 hours for one. Sort of a what would you do puzzle.

I mean if you’re at the bottom of the ocean with no wah to track you from above it could’ve been 2000 hours and it wouldn’t matter. I’d rather we all die together, holding hands, than murder them all and die a week later with their literal rotting corpses next to me. Can you even imagine the smell.

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No matter the incredible risk-taking, I really hope death came quickly. I also hope nobody else risks their lives to recover them.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I would think long and hard about this if I was there: enough air for 5 people for 40 hours. Or perhaps 200 hours for one. Sort of a what would you do puzzle.

I mean if you’re at the bottom of the ocean with no wah to track you from above it could’ve been 2000 hours and it wouldn’t matter. I’d rather we all die together, holding hands, than murder them all and die a week later with their literal rotting corpses next to me. Can you even imagine the smell.

I can’t imagine the smell if I was there after a meal.

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Anonymous wrote:I would think long and hard about this if I was there: enough air for 5 people for 40 hours. Or perhaps 200 hours for one. Sort of a what would you do puzzle.

I mean if you’re at the bottom of the ocean with no wah to track you from above it could’ve been 2000 hours and it wouldn’t matter. I’d rather we all die together, holding hands, than murder them all and die a week later with their literal rotting corpses next to me. Can you even imagine the smell.

It’s very cold in the submersible, so the smell would not be that bad.

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Lots of unconfirmed reports on Twitter about tapping sounds being picked up by sonar

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Anonymous wrote:I would think long and hard about this if I was there: enough air for 5 people for 40 hours. Or perhaps 200 hours for one. Sort of a what would you do puzzle.

I agree but wasn't going to say it. The billionaire father might let his son live longer.

[Anonymous]

At least they have each other to hug and maybe hold hands with. Better than being alone. So sad. Yes they took risks doing this but they’re still people with families and friends who love them and want them home. I hope they are not suffering. Just goes to show how vast our oceans are. They’re somewhere adrift amongst the titanic yet that is merely a grain of sand in the vastness of the ocean floor. It’s hard to even comprehend. I didn’t really understand the vastness of the ocean until the MH370 disappearance

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Anonymous wrote:Lmao at the CEO being aboard. This is like the guy who bought the Segway company and died 9 months later when he rode one off a cliff.

Or the architect of the "unsinkable" Titanic, Mr. Andrews, going down with it when it sank.

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Anonymous wrote:Lots of unconfirmed reports on Twitter about tapping sounds being picked up by sonar

They have to be smart enough to tap and not shout. But the interesting thing is they have an extremely knowledgeable deep sea diving expert with them who might help them get found and/or survive longer.

You never know. Odds look small but remember the Chilean miners and the Thai kids in the cave.

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Anonymous wrote:At least they have each other to hug and maybe hold hands with. Better than being alone. So sad. Yes they took risks doing this but they’re still people with families and friends who love them and want them home. I hope they are not suffering. Just goes to show how vast our oceans are. They’re somewhere adrift amongst the titanic yet that is merely a grain of sand in the vastness of the ocean floor. It’s hard to even comprehend. I didn’t really understand the vastness of the ocean until the MH370 disappearance

If you want to understand the vastness of the ocean consider that we put like twenty tons of garbage in to it every day.

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Anonymous wrote:Lots of unconfirmed reports on Twitter about tapping sounds being picked up by sonar

This is why I hate social media. You can say anything, cause a frenzy, and get away with it.

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Anonymous wrote:Lmao at the CEO being aboard. This is like the guy who bought the Segway company and died 9 months later when he rode one off a cliff.

Or the architect of the "unsinkable" Titanic, Mr. Andrews, going down with it when it sank.

Can you even imagine how he felt about making the bulkheads not go all the way to the ceiling.