Titanic Tour Submarine Missing.

[Looking Glass]

A "Mini-Sub" with 5 people on board, intended to tour the "Titanic Wreckage" is missing without communication for several hours. The Coast Guard has begun a search and rescue plan. The spokesman for the Tour Company says there is approx. 70 hours of Oxygen remaining. The fear s that the "SUB" is Caught on a Fishing Net, or some of the jagged Titanic surfaces and can not break free.

 

[RiverDave]

Good lord

 

[hallett21]

That would be horrifying

 

[Racey]

There is no fuckin way i'd get in one of those things.

Also i figued they would have a tether?

 

[Looking Glass]

FOX, has been covering the story, and reports, now communication was lost approx, 1 Hour after it launched. The Sub is designed so that in an Emergency it can surface without power, and the reason for being caught is the feeling. The Coast Guard is gathering equipment and personnel to begin the actual on-site Rescue Operation.

 

[hallett21]

There is no fuckin way i'd get in one of those things.

Also i figued they would have a tether?

250k a seat according to BBC lol

 

[brecht]

Billionaire problems lol

Explorer Hamish Harding ID’d by family as among the 5 missing on Titanic tourist submarine

World-renowned explorer Hamish Harding is among the five people who went missing aboard a tourist submarine visiting the shipwreck of the Titanic Monday morning, his family has confirmed.

nypost.com

 

[monkeyswrench]

Call me odd, but not touring that. Standing above the Arizona was about as close to a maritime grave as I'd go.

 

[Xtrmwakeboarder]

Man. Hope they are OK. I’d do it if I was rich…

 

[RadMan]

The Titanic only sits in 12,500 feet of water.
Screw that, the passengers were crazy to trust it and the company that thinks it’s a good idea to take passengers to that depth, crazy too.

Me thinks Davy Jones’ Locker has added 5 more.

 

[Bpracing1127]

do these subs have constant comms the entire time?

 

[riverroyal]

obviously someone dying is tragic. But am I alone in thinking this is some how amusing? This has bad idea all over it.

 

[Racey]

do these subs have constant comms the entire time?

Only via a cable i believe. Radio waves don't go through water, at least not ones at a frequency that are capable of meaningful information transfer

 

[crzy2bealive]

So to have enough oxygen to survive longer you must kill the other passengers

 

[69hondo]

If they are stranded without communication I couldnt imagine. If one of them starts to freak out they all die.

 

[rivergames]

“Promise me you'll survive. That you won't give up, no matter what happens. No matter how hopeless.” — Jack.

Hopefully they can be rescued!

 

[DarkHorseRacing]

Maybe they got caught on that necklace with the blue stone?

 

[RadMan]

Another article I read says that sub was designed for 13,123-ft, they are only diving to 95% of that depth at 12,500-ft

 

[DarkHorseRacing]

If you watched Michael Biehn in Abyss you know exactly how this turns out.

 

[Outdrive1]

Billionaire problems lol

Explorer Hamish Harding ID’d by family as among the 5 missing on Titanic tourist submarine

World-renowned explorer Hamish Harding is among the five people who went missing aboard a tourist submarine visiting the shipwreck of the Titanic Monday morning, his family has confirmed.

nypost.com

Exactly

 

[Runs2rch]

Another article I read says that sub was designed for 13,123-ft, they are only diving to 95% of that depth at 12,500-ft

I would prefer a little more cushion. Like 70-75 percent of max.

 

[mjc]

They have 96 hours of air, hope it is enough.

 

[petie6464]

Geeze... Talk about getting the Titanic experience!

Not for me if it were free..

 

[white tortilla]

Bill Paxton would have been able to save them

 

[mbrown2]

Wonder how many hours this sub has operated at that depth...

 

[poncho]

That would be a horrible way to die.

 

[beerrun]

Even if they find it how do they get it up or them out in time? And if it just free fell to the bottom wouldn't it have been crushed on the way down?

 

[Mandelon]

 

[Sleek-Jet]

That would be a horrible way to die.

Other than having two days to think about it, dieing of hypoxia is a pretty comfortable way to slip this mortal coil... or so I've been told. Everything is fine and then You just go night night.

 

[Tooms22]

Looks like something that I would never try under any circumstances.

A documentary with a moderately similar story is Last Breath.

 

[Crazyhippy]

Even if they find it how do they get it up or them out in time? And if it just free fell to the bottom wouldn't it have been crushed on the way down?

It's designed to operate at the depth of the bottom... Shouldn't be crushed.

That said, one tiny little imperfection in a piece of glass, and the pressure would be an instant death.

 

[beerrun]

It's designed to operate at the depth of the bottom... Shouldn't be crushed.

That said, one tiny little imperfection in a piece of glass, and the pressure would be an instant death.

But wouldn't it need to pressurize its self on the way down? And if it failed and went down like a rock wouldn't that crush it on the way down

 

[rivrrts429]

That would be a horrible way to die.

If the submarine was compromised they never felt a thing. It would be instantaneous death.

Worse would be if it lost power and sunk to the sea floor. Pretty sure you would slowly die of hypothermia.

 

[RadMan]

Meh, it’s only 5,585 psi down there

 

[RVR SWPR]

 

[Mototrig]

So have enough oxygen to survive longer you must kill the other passengers

You know dam well one of them dudes is thinking it

 

[shintoooo]

 

[monkeyswrench]

“Promise me you'll survive. That you won't give up, no matter what happens. No matter how hopeless.” — Jack.

Hopefully they can be rescued!

As horrible as the concept is...this made me laugh. Then I thought to myself, "Damn, how gay am I for knowing what he's talking about?"

Wanna go out for Bud Lights later?

 

[rivergames]

As horrible as the concept is...this made me laugh. Then I thought to myself, "Damn, how gay am I for knowing what he's talking about?"

Wanna go out for Bud Lights later?

I quickly searched on google 'Quotes from Titanic'.

I didn't remember the quote, but that was a good movie!

 

[ChumpChange]

Other than having two days to think about it, dieing of hypoxia is a pretty comfortable way to slip this mortal coil... or so I've been told. Everything is fine and then You just go night night.

Tony Stark almost dies this way at the beginning of End Game. They made it look peaceful.

 

[ElAzul]

The Titanic was closed for good and no more further dives allowed a few short year's ago to let the dead rest in peace. I see that's changed

 

[whiteworks]

Leaving the earths surface in either direction is not a natural place for the humans to be. Best of luck sea dwellers.

 

[rrrr]

Meh, it’s only 5,585 psi down there

The sub is a crushed blob on the ocean floor, and the occupants didn't suffer. It was instantaneous.

 

[Brokeboatin221]

That’s my guess is that it imploded and what a shitty way to go. Hope they find them safe and I’m wrong….

 

[HBCraig]

Bill Paxton would have been able to save them

I see what you did there

 

[DaytonaBabe]

Yeah, but the real question is, which one of the occupants had dirt on Killary?

 

[monkeyswrench]

The Titanic was closed for good and no more further dives allowed a few short year's ago to let the dead rest in peace. I see that's changed

I'd thought I'd read that as well. Apparently money opens doors. Sadly, some doors should really remain closed

 

[arch stanton]

i think that you could die of hypothermia before run run out of air i think at that depth it’s about 24 degrees

 

[Looking Glass]

The sub is a crushed blob on the ocean floor, and the occupants didn't suffer. It was instantaneous.

"IF", it indeed meets this fate, it will be the same as a Navy Submarine, "The Thresher" in 1963.

 

[4Waters]

I would have volunteered to go up on a shuttle the day after the Challenger exploded before I would take a sub down to the Titanic