Titanic tourist submersible goes missing with search under way

[Astro Galactic Megalul]

Concrete shoes would've been cheaper.

 

[Coccxys]

I work in the submarine industry and there isn't a single expert I've spoken to since Monday that doesn't just say "they're dead".

It's near impossible to find something like that at those depths, no matter how hard you bang you're going to find it very hard to be louder than all the ocean noises, if you went pinging away with active sonar there is a huge debris field down there which would show thousands of thay sized objects, even if you had a radio it wouldn’t work at those depths.

Then if they found it there are such limited assets with a long stand up time able to do anything about it.

A submarine that loses control of bodily weight is a grave. There is a positive feedback relationship for an uncontrolled dive and it is extremely difficult to recover once it kicks in.

 

[Cuckoman]

Well we're within the last 10 hours so if they rescue them it's now or never.

The ocean is very deep and very dark and very slow and difficult to search.
Unless they eventually find it by accident just next to the titanic itself my money is that they will never find it.
I mean, it took them forever to locate titanic itself and it is like hundreds of yards long, tens of stories high. They are never going to find this tiny, and by now probably flattened, tiny flat pizzabox.

 

[Zbk3VmLfujjzjxBd43tL]

Remember, these rich retards are dying (or more likely already dead) in a pathetic tin can about the size of a minivan inside, which doesn't even have seats so they're sitting cross-legged Indian style in this piece of shit, dying while staring at each other. They have billions of dollars on the surface, but under the ocean they're just fucking retards who paid $250,000 to die gasping.

WEF member Shahzada Dawood loves the idea of people living in pods, so it's only fitting he dies in one.

 

[Android raptor]

I'm guessing they were compressed into something resembling a stepped on beer can 1.75 hours into the voyage because that's the most likely outcome and also the most metal as fuck death a bunch of coddled richers could possibly hope for.

But also the nicest possible option for them since they would've been dead before realizing anything was wrong. Certainly a nicer death than the victims of the Titanic disaster got.

Also my personal bet on what happened. Load-bearing porthole/Xbox controller/etc failed and everyone was rendered into a few inches of goo before they realized anything was up. Banging noises are some unrelated ocean sounds (or orcas trying to drum up more billionare sacrifices).

Would be particularly wild if they tried to actually go inside the wreck and got stuck, though (and deeply karmatic).

 

[AnOminous]

The event is really top tier "Do you think this is funny?" Joker film meme.

"I do and I'm tired of pretending it's not!"

 

[Lowlife Adventures]

kinda gives the phrase "hoist by his own petard" a whole new horrific meaning.

"Hoist by his own retard" is what I prefer

 

[PaladinBoo]

WEF member Shahzada Dawood loves the idea of people living in pods, so it's only fitting he dies in one.

God truly does have a great sense of humor. If only all members of the WEF suffered his fate. Then we would live in a just world.

 

[GradeAGobbleDeeGook]

according to regular oxygen consumption, their oxygen has about 1 hour left
a UK article says the US Coast Guard confirmed the time, in the UK its 12:08 PM and google says its 11:05 AM

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/titanic-submersible-exact-time-oxygen-30293944

 

[Iron Jaguar]

I can't wait for Internet Historian to do a documentary on this.

 

[CaptainRockall]

according to regular oxygen consumption, their oxygen has about 1 hour left
a UK article says the US Coast Guard confirmed the time, in the UK its 12:08 PM and google says its 11:05 AM

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/titanic-submersible-exact-time-oxygen-30293944

Would playing Europe's big hit 'The Final Countdown' be too cheeky at this point?

 

[Blackstar]

Would playing Europe's big hit 'The Final Countdown' be too cheeky at this point?

no

 

[Coffee Mugshot]

Technically they were in the UTC -3 timezone if the maps are correct, which would mean they are already over 96 hours. They were kind of straddling the -3/-4 line though, so maybe they have another 30 minutes before the 96 hour mark if they were using the Nova Scotia time zone. Reports say they went under at 8am local time. In any case, they dead.

 

[Cuckoman]

It does not ma

according to regular oxygen consumption, their oxygen has about 1 hour left
a UK article says the US Coast Guard confirmed the time, in the UK its 12:08 PM and google says its 11:05 AM

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/titanic-submersible-exact-time-oxygen-30293944

It does not matter it they have 10 hour or 10.000 hours left.
At this depth it will take, at best, months to find the capsule, if they ever find it.
It took 70 years to find Titanic itself and that one is hundreds of yards long and tens of stories tall. And now we are looking for a flat box of book-case-Billy" somewhere within the nearest tens of kilometers o the titanic?

They will not find a flatpack pizzabox the size of an Ikea bookshelf hidden in the depths of the ocean in a few hours. Visibility is a few yards, at best. It takes hours to scan and clear an area just ten by ten yards.

We do not have the techology to reliably locate the wreck in months, and that is even if we go globally all out in the search. And even if we find the craft in less than many months, we do not have the technology to recover it in less than months more., because shit this deep, this cold and in so poor visibility takes a long time to plan and a long time to, slowly, execute.
Driving the fucking Mars-Rover is. more responsive and quicker to react and do shit than in eternal darkness at 400 atmoshperes.

Because if nothing else, the remote operator of the Mars Rover can actually see more than 3 feet in front of the vehicle at any time.

 

[Death of an Ego]

I didn't realize the viewport situation before, and the cut corner nature of the construction of this "vessel", now that I looked into it and all it's hubristic points of failure leads me to believe that they all died instantly not long after losing contact. That's why I said before that you couldn't pay me enough to set foot in the thing if it was going down. An hour down when they lost contact, any leak is not going to be a slow one into the pressure compartment. It's going to be like a laser beam before the whole hull crushes and the pressure turns you into pink goo nearly instantly after the oxygen ignites. These people are almost certainly very dead.

That leads to finding the remains of the sub. This is almost pointless. That's a tiny submersible in a submarine canyon 2 miles down, if it didn't drift far away on the currents, which can get very strong and unpredictable near the grand banks. Going even further, the weather and surface currents in the area at this time of year are even more unpredictable. In fair weather, you can count on maybe a week to do a dive of that nature, which is why nearly every effort to raise anything of significant weight from the titanic has resulted in failure, and the only real grave robbing has been small objects.

I've always been strongly against bringing artifacts up from the Titanic, like I said before, it has no useful archeological value, although it does have some scientific value in how it's deteriorating that far down. It's incredible that ROVs have been able to capture what they have, an 8k mosaic of the wreck site. Every manned dive on it now only further desecrates the mass grave the wreck is, as far as I'm concerned.

 

[Desu Mountain]

Lmao they should have a more nuanced "oxygen remaining" countdown depending on who has killed whom to preserve the oxygen supply. The oxygen supply meter should be based on how many people are left who didn't murder each other.

If you are stuck in a small space with limited oxygen the last thing you want there is a rotting corpse burning oxygen in order to fuel the decomposition process while at the same time poisoning the air with noxious and utterly foul-smelling gases.

 

[GradeAGobbleDeeGook]

It does not ma

It does not matter it they have 10 hour or 10.000 hours left.
At this depth it will take, at best, months to find the capsule, if they ever find it.
It took 70 years to find Titanic itself and that one is hundreds of yards long and tens of stories tall. And now we are looking for a flat box of book-case-Billy" somewhere within the nearest tens of kilometers o the titanic?

They will not find a flatpack pizzabox the size of an Ikea bookshelf hidden in the depths of the ocean in a few hours. Visibility is a few yards, at best. It takes hours to scan and clear an area just ten by ten yards.

We do not have the techology to reliably locate the wreck in months, and that is even if we go globally all out in the search. And even if we find the craft in less than many months, we do not have the technology to recover it in less than months, because shit this deep, this cold and in so poor visibility takes a long time to plan and a long time to, slowly, execute.
Driving the fucking Mars-Rover ir more responsive and quicker to react and do shit than in eternal darkness at 400 atmoshperes.

dead or not, its been on the headlines they have X time left if they are found, and now X time has run out
yes they probably died as soon as they lost contact
but as of now, even if they were alive, theyre dead now

 

[NSJAP]

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

So either they are 100% ded now, or it was one of the most elaborate cases of billionaires faking their own death. Anyways I was very much entertained.

 

[Iron Jaguar]

If they manage to find it, I'll be demanding an explanation as to the whereabouts of MH370.