Submarine tour of the Titanic goes missing

[actaeon277]

 

[actaeon277]

 

[Sigblitz]

So did they cash the checks?

 

[Jsomerset]

CBS reported that each seat’s rental was $250,000 for the tour. Non refundable I bet. Just goes to show some people have more money than sense.

 

[Wolfhound]

Who would have known submarines could be dangerous?





Everyone……

 

[MrSmitty]

I have a sinking feeling all might not be good.......

 

[Shadow01]

Wonder if their liability waiver was water tight?

 

[DoggyDaddy]

That would be a horrific way to go. Of all the ways I wouldn't want to die, drowning (or being crushed by the water pressure) and burning are at the top of my list.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

Oddly enough, I've always loved being on the water, and as a kid I was a bit of a pyromaniac.

 

[littletommy]

I’m just trying to imagine being a billionaire, like the British guy that’s on there, and thinking “damn, I’m not buying my way out of this”. And I don’t mean that to sound snarky.

That would be terrible. I’m hoping by some miracle they make it out.

 

[Sigblitz]

No news yet.

 

[Ark]

I'm a huge Titanic nerd. Been following this story all day.

They seem to have abruptly lost contact about an hour and 45 minutes into the dive, or around 15 minutes from the bottom. The submersible has multiple options for dumping ballast, including one that decays in seawater and automatically releases at around 16 hours. It has 96 hours of life support for 5 people, nominally. I am hopeful it will turn up on the surface somewhere, but the crew is bolted inside and cannot exit without topside support.

The submersible is a carbon fiber reinforced cylinder with titanium domes at either end. All previous deep submersibles have been simple spheres. It has successfully completed dives to Titanic before, but is overall a very new system.

Prayers they'll still turn up, but over 24 hours without contact is a dire situation. It's worth noting that in many hundreds of dives on Titanic, no vehicles or lives have ever been lost.

 

[tbhausen]

I read several articles on this. It takes about two hours to get down to the wreck, and they lost comms an hour and 45 minutes into the voyage. Whatever happened, happened in deep water. Not looking good for them.

Edit: Ark and I posted at the same time… it is looking to me like RMS Titanic is still claiming victims over 100 years later.

 

[bwframe]

Jesse Waters just interviewed another sub captain who has been to the Titanic. He was graceful, but not at all positive on the outcome of this


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[Ark]

I read several articles on this. It takes about two hours to get down to the wreck, and they lost comms an hour and 45 minutes into the voyage. Whatever happened, happened in deep water. Not looking good for them.

Edit: Ark and I posted at the same time… it is looking to me like RMS Titanic is still claiming victims over 100 years later.

That time of loss and what sounds like TOTAL loss of all contact of any kind including possible emergency beacons is...bad. Real bad. A hull failure would have gone off like a bomb. The tender ship likely didn't have hydrophones recording that would have conclusively picked it up, just sonar and the gertrude.

I saw a video tour of that sub. It's kinda janky. Maybe an electrical failure could have killed everything. But if they're bobbing on the surface with no power they're freezing and sick and scared right now. Hopes...

 

[bwframe]

British billionaire and French diver feared among Titanic submarine missing

Hamish Harding’s stepson confirmed that his stepfather is missing on board the OceanGate Expeditions submersible

www.independent.co.uk

 

[JCSR]

 

[actaeon277]

If there was a failure of the pressure boundary, at that depth death would be instantaneous.

If the pressure boundary didn't fail, and they're at the bottom, the auto surface system MIGHT bring them back.
If it doesn't then it's freezing cold, until the O2 or the CO2 gets to you.

 

[actaeon277]

As for how much a seat costs....

If you have the money to buy your father a flight on a B-17, should other's judge how you spend your money?

 

[actaeon277]

Oxygen use is not going to be an exact estimate, different people use different amounts.
And different actions, and stress, use different amounts.
Their estimate is, a generic healthy adult of average size, probably in their 20s or 30s, will use X amount of air.


And let's not forget about CO2.
They probably don't have a scrubber/burner unit.
So they spread an absorbent.
Assuming the absorbent is all good, how much did they bring?