imagine in 100 years some rich billionaires are going to spend $100 million to go down and view the sub wreck
Titanic tourist sub goes missing
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As a billionaire myself I would have had the best engineers build a decent submarine, and then staffed it with hotties and had a 4 on 1 during the dive to the Titanic.
Ironic…just like the Titanic
They said the sub could be inside titanic in an article I read.
Any chance the pilot got a little too comfortable with the danger?
Titanic tourist submersible goes missing with search under way
Rescuers are searching for a submersible used to take tourists and experts to view the famous wreck.www.bbc.com
A submersible craft used to take people to see the wreck of the Titanic has gone missing in the Atlantic Ocean with its crew on board, sparking a major search and rescue operation.
Tour firm OceanGate, which runs $250,000-a-seat expeditions to the wreck, said it was exploring all options to get the crew back safely.
It said government agencies and deep sea firms were helping the operation.
The Titanic sank in 1912 and lies some 3,800m (12,500ft) beneath the waves.
The missing craft is believed to be OceanGate's Titan submersible, a truck-sized sub that holds five people and usually dives with a four-day supply of oxygen.
It is not known when contact with the craft was lost, but the vessel was reported overdue on Sunday evening about 435 miles (700km) south of St John's, Newfoundland.
Hamish Harding, a 59-year-old British billionaire businessman and explorer, is among those on the missing submarine, his family said.
On social media at the weekend, Mr Harding said he was "proud to finally announce" that he would be aboard the mission to the wreck of the Titanic - but added that due to the "worst winter in Newfoundland in 40 years, this mission is likely to be the first and only manned mission to the Titanic in 2023".
He wrote on Sunday: "A weather window has just opened up and we are going to attempt a dive tomorrow."
OceanGate said in a statement that its "entire focus is on the crewmembers in the submersible and their families".
"We are deeply thankful for the extensive assistance we have received from several government agencies and deep sea companies in our efforts to re-establish contact with the submersible," it added.
The company bills the eight-day trip on its carbon-fibre submersible as a "chance to step outside of everyday life and discover something truly extraordinary".
According to its website, one expedition is ongoing and two more have been planned for June 2024.
The submersible usually carries a pilot, three paying guests, and what the company calls a "content expert".
The trip sets sail from St John's in Newfoundland, which is around 370 miles (600km) from the wreckage site. Each full dive to the wreck, including the descent and ascent, reportedly takes around eight hours.
The OceanGate website lists three submersibles it owns, and only the Titan is capable of diving deep enough to reach the Titanic wreckage.
The vessel weighs 10,432 kg (23,000 lbs) and, according to the website, can reach depths of up to 4,000m and has 96 hours of life support available for a crew of five.
A vessel called the Polar Prince, which is used to transport submersibles to the wreckage site, was involved in the expedition, its owner told the BBC.
The Titanic, which was the largest ship of its time, hit an iceberg on its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York in 1912. Of the 2,200 passengers and crew onboard, more than 1,500 died.
Its wreckage has been extensively explored since it was discovered in 1985.
The wreck lies in two parts, with the bow and the stern separated by about 800m (2,600ft). A huge debris field surrounds the broken vessel.
Last month, the first full-sized digital scan of the wreck was created using deep-sea mapping. The scan shows both the scale of the ship, as well as some minute details, such as the serial number on one of the propellers.
#MostExpensiveCoffinEver
Stockton Rush, ”damn it, the batteries just went dead on the controller, Hamish hand me the spare batteries”.
Hamish, “Umm, I thought you grabbed them”.
Most hydraulic presses are rated under 5,000 psi, the heaviest duty ones up to 10,000 psi or even higher depending on the platform size being utilized. The only thing I’ve ever seen survive a hydraulic press is a neodymium magnet and even that suffered an internal crack. Those presses can easily crack 3 kg. solid anvils in half. If the hull failed it would be both catastrophic and instantaneous, which in a way would be a blessing. Better that than to sit there and wait until your oxygen runs out and you suffocate inside that tin can. Thoughts and prayers to their families and friends.
It also confirms the fact that some extremely rich people are not necessarily extremely smart people.
It also confirms the fact that some extremely rich people are not necessarily extremely smart people.
Lol...the BBC is reporting that the CEO, who is on the sub, fired the sub expert they had because he kept warning it wasn't safe.
Yup.... only had to reach in up to the shoulder.....well above crush depth.
She kept looking at me like I was Al Bundy and she was Peg and saying, "If you can't get it back you are going to be it's replacement". I was ready to die trying !!!
On Facebook I was getting a lot of videos in my feed of hydraulic presses just crushing shit. Clicked a video apparently one time and then they kept setting me up with them. Whenever there was something cool in the thumbnail image Id fall for the click bait and watch hydraulic presses just destroy random items. Based on the number of views I'm guessing dude was actually making good coin putting these videos up. Not for everyone but I thought they were pretty cool.
That waiver the passengers signed is going to be put to the test.
If this has a bad ending it will depend on what they find in the wreckage. If it's not found, there will be some sort of settlement. It would never go to court would it HORT lawyers?
Who is paying for all this search and rescue/recovery? This has got to be expensive, someone needs to pay for this.
Possible, but what is the point of billionaires suing for financial compensation?
The very rich will sue if it nets them a few extra dollars to use to wipe their ass.
They keep lawyers staffed whose jobs are to make sure they can do whatever the hell they want and get richer while doing it.
Maybe not all, but after being involved in a handful of projects where billionaires were involved, that’s the impression I have.
Could be coming from Op's mom's
unless they can locate them today I fear this doesn’t have a happy ending
Hammerhead sharks trying to get in...
If they did fire the engineer because they didn’t like his safety warnings that would be gross negligence, which I imagine would excepted for public policy reasons or statute in the applicable jurisdiction.
Already been done (in a different context) > Aries 11
My cousin produced this movie. His brother helped finance it, and in return got a bit part - which partly explains the 3.6 IMDB rating.
If your house catches fire and the fire department puts it out, do expect the fire department to send you a bill?
Absolutely. Whomever is freaking out and can’t handle it and has a racing heartbeat / high O2 consumption…you tell him to turn around to look for something and cap him with the PS2 controller.
How about if you are in your 50s and your teen son is on board. Do you off yourself as oxygen dwindles to maximize his chance to survive?
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Can’t imagine this turning out good.
The banging sounds is unexpected…not sure what type of emergency would strand them on the bottom, with no way to communicate and surface…but also not crush them.
The banging sounds is unexpected…not sure what type of emergency would strand them on the bottom, with no way to communicate and surface…but also not crush them.
On my drive into work the thought was if this is them banging then they must have lost all power and be sitting on the ocean floor in total darkness since Sunday morning just waiting to die.
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I suppose the upshot is that it would be very cold, slowing their breathing and heartrate, and hopefully prolonging the oxygen supply for a rescue.
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Yeah, but then I thought different articles said they had the ability to manually surface in an emergency like that?
I suppose that system could have failed, or they got caught on something maybe?
Either way, wouldn’t hypothermia have set in a while ago? (I genuinely have no idea how long that takes)
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