Titanic tourist submersible goes missing with search under way

[The Nothingness]

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

Did anyone tell him they were using a video game controller?

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

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

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[RodgerDodger]

Watching the media coverage of this... it's just staggering how fucking dumb TV talking heads are. And where do they keep finding all these old salty British ex Royal Navy Officers who look like they last set to sea during the age of sail?

Edit; Apparently what they found was parts of the rear faring and landing frame.
From Skynews

Debris is 'landing frame and rear cover from sub', expert says​

A rescue expert says the debris found in the search for Titan was "a landing frame and a rear cover from the submersible".
David Mearns, who is friends with two of the passengers on board Titan, says he is part of a WhatsApp group involving The Explorers Club.
Mr Mearns told Sky News the president of the club, who is "directly connected" to the ships on the site, said to the group: "It was a landing frame and a rear cover from the submersible."
Mr Mearns says: "Again this is an unconventional submarine, that rear cover is the pointy end of it and the landing frame is the little frame that it seems to sit on."
He says this confirms that it is the submersible.
Mr Mearns says he knows both British billionaire Hamish Harding and the French sub pilot Paul-Henri Nargeolet.
"It means the hull hasn't yet been found but two very important parts of the whole system have been discovered and that would not be found unless its fragmented," he added.
Mr Mearns also spoke about the fairing of the submarine - shaped like a fishtail - and said: "If the faring is off and the frame is off - then something really bad has happened to the entire structure."
"On the news that we have yet, they haven't found the hull of which the men are inside."

https://news.sky.com/story/titanic-submarine-missing-live-updates-submersible-cannot-be-opened-from-inside-time-running-out-on-oxygen-supply-waiver-mentions-death-three-times-12905748#6086594

 

[Betonhaus]

https://www.news.uscg.mil/Press-Releases/Article/3435752/media-availability-coast-guard-to-hold-press-briefing-to-discuss-rov-findings/

 

[God of Nothing]

Meanwhile, Iron lung's Dev:

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

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man, quit being a bitch
You're raking it in on a bunch of useless assholes' deaths. That's a win-win.

 

[Feathers McGraw]

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.

The worst case scenario would've been if a flotation device was deployed and raised them to the surface, then they spent 4+ days being rocked by waves and knocked over 24/7, flinging the contents of the chemical toilet around the tiny cabin while nobody found them because they didn't put a fucking locator beacon on it.

You'd have to be a complete retard to willingly go inside that thing and I have no sympathy for any of them.

 

[Meat Target]

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

I never said I'm not fucked up in the head.

He's not wrong, he's just allergic to laughter or mirth. The whole thing is a black comedy of errors.

 

[Keggo]

I don't know anything about submersible engineering, but I do know that the controller they've used to steer that deathpipe is a turd, 'cause I have one.
Logitech f710 has no driver for windows 7 and up, you have to use the xbox360 driver instead, which wouldn't be an issue if it detected properly, on some win10 versions it gets the wrong registry key assigned to it and windows won't let you pair the correct driver before you go to regedit and fix it.
It would be funny if that was what ended up killing them in the end, I'd imagine that it's hard to google a solution for your driver issues when you're deep underwater.

 

[Otis Mallebrok]

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

You generally cannot communicate with submerged submarines by radio, unless using extremely long wavelengths with correspondingly gigantic antennas (and they are truly gigantic). And even then, it is one way communication of very short text messages, and only in the upper part of the water column.

The two way communication device they use, is a type of sonar. Which essentially means a big loudspeakers on both ends. This works because sounds propagate well under water. But apparently, sometimes it does not work.

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

Yes, perhaps we are. But then again, we are not flat as pancakes on the ocean floor.

 

[RodgerDodger]

I never said I'm not fucked up in the head.

He's not wrong, he's just allergic to laughter or mirth. The whole thing is a black comedy of errors.

It's the billionaire equivalent to stupid redneck tricks. HEY EVERYBODY WATCH THIS!

 

[Procrastinhater]

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"

"We don't need all those lifeboats, they make the deck look crowded.
The ships unsinkable anyway"

 

[PixarsTedKennedy]

Logitech f710 has no driver for windows 7 and up, you have to use the xbox360 driver instead

You had to install drivers? I just plugged mine into Windows 11 and it was good to go. Works on Linux as well out of the box.

I can't believe these millionaires didn't do any research on this company. I figured businessmen were more savvy than that.

 

[2020chan]

Amazon reviews are savage

 

[Spergichu]

I think we all know where they ended up.

 

[xX_rAcE_wAr_420_Xx]

"We don't need all those lifeboats, they make the deck look crowded.
The ships unsinkable anyway"

You'd think someone planning this kind of excursion would at least safeguard against dramatic irony. Literally "oh we're gonna go gawk at the sunken boat where rich people died because retards didn't build or stock a watercraft properly; yes it does cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to do so, and yes the CEO of this thing publicly said safety is for faggots, why do you ask?"

 

[Zoobles]

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

Every era of human history is filled with people indulging in the death of their fellow man. Even Matt Walsh himself enjoys seeing people die under certain circumstances

 

[shameful existence]

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.

The toilet seemed to be the best part of Titan. It had a view and music.
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[Blue Miaplacidus]

Yes, perhaps we are. But then again, we are not flat as pancakes on the ocean floor.

Not flat, probably a fine mist and whatever chunks of bone and flesh survived the implosion have already been consumed and shit out by prawns, amphipods, and sea cucumbers

 

[Astro Galactic Megalul]

Did Linus Tech Tips design the submarine?

I zoomed in on the debris and this is what I found:
We know the real culprit now.

 

[Retink Retunk]

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.

That's objectively wrong.

Never trust anything at face value as no amount of regulation or restriction will ever prevent a creative person from pulling some bullshit. Hell, just recently the whole FTX thing happened and they had tons of celebrities and big investment firms backing them when there was plenty of chatter going on pointing out all the insane shit that didn't make sense about them. Same with Enron, who was constantly getting great audits from agencies but independent investors were pointing out really simple shit like "why is Enron the only company that can't produce a balance sheet?" It was even captured on a conference call, and still people kept putting money into Enron.

Never ever trust anything based on regulation, unless you want to be injected full of retard juice.

Meanwhile, Iron lung's Dev:

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

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Meanwhile, vtubers; "Let's Goooooo! Content!"