Titanic tourist submersible goes missing with search under way

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wtfNeedSignUp said:
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.
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Twist ending - it was all part of a plan for the group to defect to russia and putin sent a sub to extract them and take them back to russia in secret

and then just to fuck with the world when the sub is found the russians then placed 5 dead coyotes in the sub dressed in the clothing the passengers were wearing at the time. or 5 dead seals

The media would have a field day with that one, as would the conspiracy nuts
 
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frozen_runner said:
That's part of what I was (vaguely) referring to. Imagine having the responsibility to keep people safe in a dangerous situation, and, instead of taking your job seriously, you cut corners. What the fuck is wrong with those people?
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Narcissistic Personality Disorder.

Some narcs are incredibly charming and motivated and persuasive. And the thing is, they believe every single fucking thing that comes out of their mouth. No matter how obviously stupid, no matter how you try to explain it, no matter how much fucking peer reviewed data you put in front of the pig arrogant cunts, they will not believe you. And because they're so charming and persuasive and certain, there is nothing you can do to convince their followers that they're in a fucking death cult.

A motivated, high IQ, charming narc who has been nothing but affirmed for years is the most dangerous monster you will ever meet, especially if he has a shitton of followers too young and too stupid to realise that the emperor has no clothes.

It's marvellous that for once the emperor got himself killed. As for the people he took with him, they were carbon copies of himself, out to show the commoners how the superior caste is above their meaningless 'rules' and 'regulations' and 'safety'. Have you ever met a high caste man from any country? They are the most pig arrogant, idiodic motherfuckers you will ever have the misfortune to ever meet. They are raised to be narcs.

The whole 'ordinary man saves the brilliant but flawed genius from his out of control creation' is the most bullshit genre of movies that there is. Because there's absolutely nothing anyone can to to save someone who is convinced that they are God.
 
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Rome's rightful successor said:
Well we're within the last 10 hours so if they rescue them it's now or never.
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Strong Mark Wahlberg "with me aboard, 9/11 hijackers would have been stopped" vibe. Also a really dumb take because a decomposing body would not only still use oxygen, but emit all kinds of different gases that would make sitting in that tube very uncomfortable very quickly.
Also the chances are the sub will never be found. It took like 73 years to find Titanic even though the location of sinking was known and it was a big ass ship. Even that nuclear sub Thresher took over a year to find with Navy pretty much putting its full force behind the mission. So even if the sub is sitting on the seabed and didn't implode at some point, no way they are going to find a 22 ft metal can there.
 
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Another point to add the oxygen system was effectively an Apollo 1 situation, if a spark was made that actually caught fire then most likely the thing went off like a pipe bomb.

This sub was literally a death trap. It had no navigation tools, it didn't actually have a black box to ping potential rescuers. It literally was some rich cunt cutting corners at every opportunities. There is three possible realities of what happened: sub got crushed because the carbon fiber weave formed gaps after repeated dives, a spark from their shitty homebrew electrical set-up flash fried them, or they're freezing to death whilst eating the CEO next to the remains of the Titanic.
 
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Forget the people who might be dead in the ocean, nobody is asking the truly important questions.

Are young people being inspired to pursue this line of work now? I mean, they used a vidya game controller! Isn't that what all the kewl kids know about? And young people work there! Isn't that super important when it comes to safety?
 
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MembersSchoolPizza said:
Couldn't, like, 90% of this whole FUBAR situation been avoided by a few hundred dollars of high-test cable on a spool, so that there was always a tether to the mothership?

Wouldn't have stopped them from imploding if their hull failed, but at least they would know where they were.
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Even if it's very thin 1/8" cable that's an extra ~375lbs they'd be dragging around at depth. It's enough of a cross-section currents can affect it too. It'd be too weak to do much more than retrieve a free-floating vessel with neutral buoyancy. At the same time, it would be more than strong enough to stop mechanical workings cold if they got tangled up. They also elected against things like communications which would be vital to actually making a tether work.

They've eschewed so many norms of safety and shipbuilding a lot of the "obvious" band-aid solutions introduce more potential failure modes than they'd actually resolve. Since people usually aren't dumb enough to do that, there isn't even a lot of reference data that'd be useful.
 
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if a couple are dead they may have more time. It will be no more than a couple of degrees above freezing, and decomposition is not fast at those temps.
What a strange episode. I had a weird dream last night that Abyss type aliens surfaced it and the world went nuts which shows I’m spending too much time on here …
 
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BelUwUga said:
Even if it's very thin 1/8" cable that's an extra ~375lbs they'd be dragging around at depth. It's enough of a cross-section currents can affect it too. It'd be too weak to do much more than retrieve a free-floating vessel with neutral buoyancy. At the same time, it would be more than strong enough to stop mechanical workings cold if they got tangled up. They also elected against things like communications which would be vital to actually making a tether work.
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Yeah, I wasn't so much thinking about a cable in the sense of being able to haul it back up, more just a bread crumb type system so you could always find the damned thing if something went wrong.
 
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Dude on sky news was going to use the as part of Expedition Unknown for discovery channel and decided against it due to lack of feeling safe. He states the waiver they form has an entire first page discussing the many ways they could die and they are required to sign it to state the company won't be reliable since its "experimental"
 
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