Titanic tourist submersible goes missing with search under way

[zyclonPD]

 

[Hall of Cost Payer]

German wife of Paki billionaire says she was supposed to visit the Titanic with him, but their son wanted to go (and get into Guinness book of world records)
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Mrs Dawood told the BBC she was initially planning to visit the Titanic wreck alongside her husband, but their trip was cancelled due to the COVID pandemic, and she later "stepped back" because her son "really wanted to go".

And about the Guinness book:

Mrs Dawood said her son "did not go anywhere without his Rubik's Cube" and had applied to the Guinness World Records. "He said, 'I'm going to solve the Rubik's Cube 3,700 metres below sea at the Titanic'," she told the BBC.

 

[Procrastinhater]

German wife of Paki billionaire says she was supposed to visit the Titanic with him, but their son wanted to go (and get into Guinness book of world records)
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And about the Guinness Book:

So much for Globohomo Paki Mk2 being a tragic victim who was only there for his slaveowning Dad.
And so much for the Guinness Book.
He got into the Darwin Book of Hillarious Dead Retards instead.

 

[Astro Galactic Megalul]

Gud vid

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Fake btw https://9gag.com/gag/agoEXG6#cs_comment_id=c_168753104604203420

 

[I'm Retarded?]

I get the whole stupid games/stupid prizes thing, but holy fucking shit what a horrifying way to die. I guess it was quick, but like, every time I see a pic of that tiny little tube where they were all just crammed in next to each other, sitting Indian style, not enough room to stand up or really even move anywhere, just sitting on that shitty little mat on the floor of that shitty little metal tube, that they were literally bolted into, it makes my stomach tighten. can you even imagine being trapped in there for eight fucking hours? I keep wondering if they heard it coming. like, if the hull was making noises before it collapsed. being trapped in a metal tube barely big enough to sit in, shoulder-to-shoulder with strangers, buried under thousands of meters of water, and then the walls around you start creaking under the pressure... I'd rather get my head fucked clean off by an enraged nigger gorilla

 

[Hall of Cost Payer]

I keep wondering if they heard it coming. like, if the hull was making noises before it collapsed.

In one of the billion interviews they made with previous passengers, one said he heard the carbon fiber pressure hull make a lot of cracking noises, which likely was it delaminating to which Stockton Rush replied "there are 5 inches of it that have to crack, we're good".

So probably yes, they likely heard cracking noises.

 

[I'm Retarded?]

In one of the billion interviews they made with previous passengers, one said he heard the carbon fiber pressure hull make a lot of cracking noises, which likely was it delaminating to which Stockton Rush replied "there are 5 inches of it that have to crack, we're good".

So probably yes, they likely heard cracking noises.

 

[AnOminous]

5 rich people died on a shit tier submarine! Illegal migrants [that sink their own ships and end up killing themselves] most effected

Proving yet again journos are the lowest trash there is

But the rich people died on some completely frivolous endeavor that they had no need to do, while the migrants were traveling to fulfill a fundamental biological imperative, the need to spread their genes by gang raping white women.

to which Stockton Rush replied "there are 5 inches of it that have to crack, we're good".

That's just how a genius talks, man. I just bet you've never talked to a genius before if you think that's strange.

So much for Globohomo Paki Mk2 being a tragic victim who was only there for his slaveowning Dad.

You're seriously trusting the gold-digging bitch who is the only person who turned a huge profit from this.

(Still nice Django)

 

[Betonhaus]

In one of the billion interviews they made with previous passengers, one said he heard the carbon fiber pressure hull make a lot of cracking noises, which likely was it delaminating to which Stockton Rush replied "there are 5 inches of it that have to crack, we're good".

So probably yes, they likely heard cracking noises.

So they had sufficient warning that the pressure vessel has been failing. Which is still pretty on brand for this guy.

 

[Hall of Cost Payer]

So much for Globohomo Paki Mk2 being a tragic victim who was only there for his slaveowning Dad.

You're seriously trusting the gold-digging bitch who is the only pe

On one hand: Why would a professional gold digger like her miss out on the biggest "I'm better and richer than you" event possible? Not without a good reason.

But on the other hand her selling this as being another one who almost was on this fatal trip sounds like seriously playing the newspapers and journos. They love a good drama of barely surviving.

I also think him being "terrified" is not a contradiction to him going on this trip for bragging rights. I know, when I was younger I did plenty of things I was terrified of, but also knew I'd probably make. So he'd play the bragging to his friends and show his scared site to his aunty.

 

[AnOminous]

I also think him being "terrified" is not a contradiction to him going on this trip for bragging rights. I know, when I was younger I did plenty of things I was terrified of, but also knew I'd probably make. So he'd play the bragging to his friends and show his scared site to his aunty.

When you're that age you think you're fucking immortal and can do anything and do shit that when you look back at it decades later you are astounded you did anything that idiotic. But sad that you no longer have such initiative. You think every dumb thing you do, even if it turns out disastrous, is going to be some story to tell, not your death forever.

It's excusable for a kid to die this way, not so much the asshole who got them all killed for his hubris.

 

[Drain Todger]

In one of the billion interviews they made with previous passengers, one said he heard the carbon fiber pressure hull make a lot of cracking noises, which likely was it delaminating to which Stockton Rush replied "there are 5 inches of it that have to crack, we're good".

So probably yes, they likely heard cracking noises.

What makes this worse is that we've known that composites are inappropriate for pressure vessels for ages:

Fiber-reinforced composites are great in tension, which is why they make excellent compressed gas tanks, as any paintballer or firefighter can attest. But when placed under compression loads from the outside, most of the strength is coming from the epoxy or plastic or whatever the carbon fiber is impregnated with. CFRP, for example, has a compressive strength that is about half of its tensile strength. When it fails, it cracks, deforms, and buckles catastrophically:

https://www.iccm-central.org/Proceedings/ICCM18proceedings/data/2.%20Oral%20Presentation/Aug22(Monday)/M35%20Damage%20and%20Fracture/M35-3-IF0862.pdf

The idiocy of choosing carbon fiber for a deep-diving submersible's pressure vessel is comparable to trying to hold up a suspension bridge with cables hanging from the underside. You're taking a material that is widely known among engineers to have relatively poor compressive strength, and you're putting it under the most extreme pressures that this planet can muster. A material that, when it fails, can delaminate with complete layer separation in the middle and have hidden cracks and voids that could never be detected without fucking X-Raying the whole thing.

Stockton Rush was a real-life Cave Johnson.

 

[Safir]

Proving yet again journos are the lowest trash there is

but unlike with deep dives, there is no hard limit to how low they can get, observe:

German wife of Paki billionaire says she was supposed to visit the Titanic with him, but their son wanted to go (and get into Guinness book of world records)

(1. another autistic large adult son, cmon what are the chances)
2. the Daily Mail article article | archive relays the same facts but has this gem

When asked by the BBC: 'You gave up your space for him, how does that make you feel?', an emotional Mrs Dawood bowed her head in grief and said as her voice broke: 'Let's just skip that'.

HOW DOES IT MAKE YOU FEEL

Guinness world record for lowest depth

 

[RodgerDodger]

In one of the billion interviews they made with previous passengers, one said he heard the carbon fiber pressure hull make a lot of cracking noises, which likely was it delaminating to which Stockton Rush replied "there are 5 inches of it that have to crack, we're good". So probably yes, they likely heard cracking noises.

Yeah. Unlike a steel hull, where creaking and groaning is normal as things expand and contract. This doesn't really happen with composites like carbon fiber. If you're hearing cracking or crackling noises damage is happening. And its not gonna get better. This is why everybody else viewed carbon fibre submarines as single use.

 

[BikeLock]

What makes this worse is that we've known that composites are inappropriate for pressure vessels for ages:

Fiber-reinforced composites are great in tension, which is why they make excellent compressed gas tanks, as any paintballer or firefighter can attest. But when placed under compression loads from the outside, most of the strength is coming from the epoxy or plastic or whatever the carbon fiber is impregnated with. CFRP, for example, has a compressive strength that is about half of its tensile strength. When it fails, it cracks, deforms, and buckles catastrophically:

https://www.iccm-central.org/Proceedings/ICCM18proceedings/data/2.%20Oral%20Presentation/Aug22(Monday)/M35%20Damage%20and%20Fracture/M35-3-IF0862.pdf

The idiocy of choosing carbon fiber for a deep-diving submersible's pressure vessel is comparable to trying to hold up a suspension bridge with cables hanging from the underside. You're taking a material that is widely known among engineers to have relatively poor compressive strength, and you're putting it under the most extreme pressures that this planet can muster. A material that, when it fails, can delaminate with complete layer separation in the middle and have hidden cracks and voids that could never be detected without fucking X-Raying the whole thing.

Stockton Rush was a real-life Cave Johnson.

"Mr. Rush, why are there lemons drawn on the submersible patent documents?"

 

[Sinner's Sandwich]

Famous last words:

"Mr. Rush, what are these weird noises?"

 

[AnOminous]

"Mr. Rush, why are there lemons drawn on the submersible patent documents?"

He says what we're all thinking!

 

[Falcon Sebben]

They died instantly. They didn't experience any pain, because the moment the sub imploded, they were all mashed potatoes in under a millisecond.

This is literally the only good part of it all. They died without any fear or pain. It was just over. The idea of being trapped in a sub as it slowly sinks and you hear it creaking and buckling would be absolutely terrifying.

I came across this ship while reading more about the Titianic.

It managed to ram a German U-Boat and even at a very slow speed, unintentionally ripped a small ship in half as well.

I guess this was the true "unsinkable" ship that was named after Mount Olympus.

Why is there no movie on this ship?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Olympic

Maybe this should be a good point to add to the comment earlier about the novel "Futility" about the ship, like the Titanic in every way named the "Titan" was said to be unsinkable and eventually hit an iceberg and sunk? Well partway through it's voyage... it hit a smaller ship, cut it in two and of course there was no damage to it.

Anyone even thinking about nitrox for Blue Hole is a fucking idiot. "I guess I won't give myself oxygen toxicity when I'm going deeper than I'm supposed to'" doesn't make it any better.

What about heliox? From what I understand when doing deep dives that like that you use a mixture of helium and oxygen as it's better at deep depths than nitrogen.

I can't really verify this, but apparently Rick Stanton has wiggled through some really small holes in underwater caves, once with only a bailout bottle (he dumped all his other gear). He also built a home made fully manually controlled rebreather because the normal ones were too big for the tiny holes he wanted to go through. He also apparently went into an also very small hole no one had ever gone into before, without correctly setting up a line to follow when he wanted to go back out. He promptly got lost and was unable to find his way out by himself because many parts of the cave walls looked similar.

I'll take, "what's a fucking stupid way to die for $500".

Seriously. That's just idiotic and you're asking for trouble at that point.

Stockton Rush was a real-life Cave Johnson.

Yeah but without the awesome voice of J.K. Simmons.

 

[Drain Todger]

I'm sorry but everything about this dude reeks of fraud. Who was he really?

Twitter's got all kinds of schizo theories going off left and right, everything from "One of the people on the board of OceanGate, the astronaut Scott Parazynski, had connections to Ghislaine Maxwell", which appears to be true, shockingly enough, as well as the typical "OMG ILLUMINATI OCCULT HUMAN SACRIFICE RITUAL AT THE WRECK OF THE TITANIC TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE LEYLINES THERE!!!" type of nuttery.

https://twitter.com/kerikukral/status/1671095256522149888

https://twitter.com/Elmr_Fudd_again/status/1672730053967216641

 

[BikeLock]

Twitter's got all kinds of schizo theories going off left and right, everything from "One of the people on the board of OceanGate, the astronaut Scott Parazynski, had connections to Ghislaine Maxwell", which appears to be true, shockingly enough, as well as the typical "OMG ILLUMINATI OCCULT HUMAN SACRIFICE RITUAL AT THE WRECK OF THE TITANIC TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE LEYLINES THERE!!!" type of nuttery.

https://twitter.com/kerikukral/status/1671095256522149888

https://twitter.com/Elmr_Fudd_again/status/1672730053967216641

I like a good conspiracy as much as the next autist, but if this was an assassination, they made it EXTREMELY fuckin' easy for the lizardmen to kill them off by boarding a sub made out of materials universally regarded as "Never for use as a submarine material".