Titanic tourist submersible goes missing with search under way

[not william stenchever]

Might be a bit conspiratorial but at this stage, there's so many stupid fuckups in this whole thing that it makes me wonder whether this is essentially a coverup to make the guy and a few paying customers "disappear" and setup life elsewhere for some reason.

How would these (not actually) dead rich guys access their riches after becoming not-alive?

 

[Things Once Remembered]

To be fair, any reasonable person getting into a submarine would assume it's been extensively tested with safety measures in place in case anything happens.

Then again, they did see the Logitech controller at the helm. That should've at least raised a couple of red flags.

The fact that they have to be bolted in from the outside instead of having a hatch should have told them everything

 

[MS Paint Gigachad]

OceanGate is certainly going to sink following this titanic blunder.

Everyone should have seen this coming, they even literally named their company after the stock snowclone name for big controversies, what were they thinking to try?

 

[Zookerton]

They hired diversity and they produced a one way trip to the afterlife. The worst part is we have diversity hires in the medical institutions, academia, and basically every other industry so the question is when do we see flying coffins become the norm.

 

[Procrastinhater]

Titanic is fucking cursed.
I'm amazed this hasnt happened before now.
That ship makes ghosts.

 

[Friendly Primarina]

Everyone calling this guy a retard for not having a radio: don't you need gigantic miles-long antennae to communicate with subs? Could this guy have put communications in even if he had wanted to?

I'm just curious if there's a source for the "he could have had communication but didn't want updates" claim.

Relevant:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communication_with_submarines

 

[Anasa Tristis]

To be fair, any reasonable person getting into a submarine would assume it's been extensively tested with safety measures in place in case anything happens.

I was just reading on a CNN page that since they're intended for international waters there are no uniform regulations for those kinds of submersibles. And since since Titian was "so advanced" in its design, existing standards didn't apply. https://archive.ph/2NFfG

Rules & regs are for the slow moving little people. Doing little things. Not for globe straddling colossi.

 

[Coccxys]

I don't know why everyone is harping on the "choice" of no radio. Without a permanent tether there couldn't be any voice communication. Salt water is a ridiculously poor medium to transmit EM waves, to talk to a relatively shallow military sub you need such long waves that it takes multiple seconds to send a single letter, at 4000m you ain't transmitting shit.

As for navigation, that isn't trivial. No GPS signals getting there, you're reliant on charts, inertial sensors, and some sort of speed measurement system

 

[Sinner's Sandwich]

Might be a bit conspiratorial but at this stage, there's so many stupid fuckups in this whole thing that it makes me wonder whether this is essentially a coverup to make the guy and a few paying customers "disappear" and setup life elsewhere for some reason.

Why would the leading Titanic researcher, who went to the ship multiple times, pay $ 250.000 to go as a tourist to the Titanic again?
Or was he a guide & got paid? But the sub is garbage and he had to know just from seeing it because he knows what a fucking sub should be like. Also you can't even see where the fuck you are going in this thing.

It's weird.

 

[ForgedBlades]

Sky News: Debris has been confirmed to be part of Titan.

 

[Collections Agent]

Everyone calling this guy a retard for not having a radio: don't you need gigantic miles-long antennae to communicate with subs? Could this guy have put communications in even if he had wanted to?

I'm just curious if there's a source for the "he could have had communication but didn't want updates" claim.

Relevant:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communication_with_submarines

I mean he could've had several fail-safes including but not limited to:
-Radio
-Backup controller
-A separation failsafe (essentially a safe self destruct that drops a ton of crap so the part with the people can float)
-A goddam reinforced cable tied to it
-SOS Buoys to give a general area of distress to look for
- Redundancies for critical systems like life support and pressure management
- A planned route that they stuck to

Literally this is the kind of guy that would take the parachutes off of a plane "cuz we're not gonna crash bro"

 

[I am batman]

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Imagine tempting fate like this lol.

Did Linus Tech Tips design the submarine?

 

[Victim2988]

As a person with a very sensitive stomach (if I eat something wrong like a tomato slice I need to rush to the toilets) my first reaction was "do they have toilets in that thing?". What I understand is that they don't, meaning that if the 4-days death was slow, they were sitting in feces and urine in a closed metal tube until the end. It sounds like medieval torture.

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

Matt Walsh says we're sickly people for joking about the sinking of the sub.

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

I feel awful for the little boy.

 

[God of Nothing]

Total retarded billlionaire death

 

[Goofy Logic]

Whelp, That fired-and-sued operations manager was vindicated.

 

[Buster Scruggs]

What the fuck is wrong with those people?

 

[1962s Godzilla]

Meanwhile, Iron lung's Dev:

https://twitter.com/DUSKdev/status/1671498543771574273

 

[Slur Generator]

As a person with a very sensitive stomach (if I eat something wrong like a tomato slice I need to rush to the toilets) my first reaction was "do they have toilets in that thing?". What I understand is that they don't, meaning that if the 4-days death was slow, they were sitting in feces and urine in a closed metal tube until the end. It sounds like medieval torture.

They did,