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5 Reportedly Missing After Titanic Wreck Tourism Vessel Disappears In Atlantic

A submersible with a group of tourists going to see the wreck of the Titanic has gone missing.

www.forbes.com

5 missing peoples

The list of "nope" is too big to even think about

• The company's website describes it as a "Once in a lifetime opportunity"
• He controls the thing with a Logitech gamepad
  
• Carbon fiber shell. That's a bold fucking move for these depths. At 12500 feet below sea level... They have a way to monitor the shell integrity to monitor any failure points.
• The entry is bolted in from the outside. There's no escape!
  • Even if you wanted, at these depths, you wouldn't even budge the door, and there's no chance of living on the other side
  • But if they were to have surfaced since the incident, you're stuck in a capsule with no way out until they find you.. a little sub in the middle of nowhere.
• $250,000 for a ticket! 5 can fit in that claustrophobic capsule
• Titan to explore Titanic shipwreck - What could go wrong
• Experimental vessel, not been approved by any regulatory body
• 12500 feet below sea level where Titanic is found. That's 6000 PSI. 6000 LBS of pressure for every square inch of the shell.
  • If water were to penerate the shell, the water pressure would be enough to cut the peoples inside like a hot knife through butter
  • Likely it's instant shell implosion, turning everyone inside to paste
• They have 96 hours of oxygen supply for 5 persons
• Any sub that would be able to reach it, if they can even find them, there's no connection chambers to transfer passengers

List of passengers known so far :
Hamish Harding - UK Billionaire
Stockton Rush, CEO of the OceanGate exhibition
Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman - Chairman to one of Pakistan's largest conglomerates, Engro corp.
Paul-Henri Nargeolet - 77 year-old French explorer. Director of the underwater research at a company that owns the rights to the Titanic wreck (because of course the wreck will have capitalists interests)

What likely happened :



But with red paste

RIP (most likely)

 

[SlimySnake]

OP I dont understand this thread. what happened?

 

[kuncol02]

OP I dont understand this thread. what happened?

5 Reportedly Missing After Titanic Wreck Tourism Vessel Disappears In Atlantic

A submersible with a group of tourists going to see the wreck of the Titanic has gone missing.

www.forbes.com

 

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5 Reportedly Missing After Titanic Wreck Tourism Vessel Disappears In Atlantic

A submersible with a group of tourists going to see the wreck of the Titanic has gone missing.

www.forbes.com

Oops, took for granted that everyone had seen the news. Included it in OP

 

[Stitch]

Titanic tour company offered up-close experience for $250,000

Past participants have called it "a remarkable event in my life" and a "lifelong dream" come true. Until now, no submersible at the site has ever gone missing.

www.nbcnews.com

There is a small toilet in Titan’s front dome, the website continues. It “doubles as the best seat in the house. When the toilet is in use, we install a privacy curtain between the dome and the main compartment and turn the music up loud.”

 

[phaedrus]

List of passengers known so far :
Hamish Harding - UK Billionaire
Stockton Rush, CEO of the OceanGate exhibition
Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman - Chairman to one of Pakistan's largest conglomerates, Engro corp.
Paul-Henri Nargeolet - 77 year-old French explorer. Director of the underwater research at a company that owns the rights to the Titanic wreck (because of course the wreck will have capitalists interests)

 

[clarky]

Can't see them being alive unfortunately. I think the sub has an auto surface safety feature after 24hrs so if they are not bobbing about up top, then they ain't getting rescued.

 

[GymWolf]

5 missing peoples

The list of "nope" is too big to even think about

• The company's website describes it as a "Once in a lifetime opportunity"
• He controls the thing with a Logitech gamepad
  
• Carbon fiber shell. That's a bold fucking move for these depths. At 12500 feet below sea level... They have a way to monitor the shell integrity to monitor any failure points.
• The entry is bolted in from the outside. There's no escape!
  • Even if you wanted, at these depths, you wouldn't even budge the door, and there's no chance of living on the other side
  • But if they were to have surfaced since the incident, you're stuck in a capsule with no way out until they find you.. a little sub in the middle of nowhere.
• $250,000 for a ticket! 5 can fit in that claustrophobic capsule
• Titan to explore Titanic shipwreck - What could go wrong
• Experimental vessel, not been approved by any regulatory body
• 12500 feet below sea level where Titanic is found. That's 6000 PSI. 6000 LBS of pressure for every square inch of the shell.
  • If water were to penerate the shell, the water pressure would be enough to cut the peoples inside like a hot knife through butter
  • Likely it's instant shell implosion, turning everyone inside to paste
• They have 96 hours of oxygen supply for 5 persons
• Any sub that would be able to reach it, if they can even find them, there's no connection chambers to transfer passengers

List of passengers known so far :
Hamish Harding - UK Billionaire
Stockton Rush, CEO of the OceanGate exhibition
Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman - Chairman to one of Pakistan's largest conglomerates, Engro corp.
Paul-Henri Nargeolet - 77 year-old French explorer. Director of the underwater research at a company that owns the rights to the Titanic wreck (because of course the wreck will have capitalists interests)

What likely happened :



But with red paste

RIP (most likely)

This sound like a plot for a great horror movie.

 

[Sybrix]

Horrific, you couldn't pay me £250 billion to go on that.

Really hope there is a good outcome to this.

 

[Morrie’s wig shop]

Yeah, fuck that!!
I can barely get on a plane these day lol.

So let me get this straight, a bunch of rich people want to see the titanic in person and something goes wrong (maybe karma) and now they want a US Navy Nuclear Submarine to go fetch them??

 

[Days like these...]

It's probably cursed

 

[winjer]

They should have just tented the movie.
Much cheaper and safer

 

[nush]

They should have just tented the movie.
Much cheaper and safer

Titanic wreck VR tour.

 

[winjer]

Titanic wreck VR tour.

We have this already.

Titanic: Honor and Glory - Home

Titanic: Honor and Glory is setting out to digitally recreate the RMS Titanic with unprecedented historical accuracy.

titanichg.com

 

[Peggies]

 

[Lasha]

Titanic tour company offered up-close experience for $250,000

Past participants have called it "a remarkable event in my life" and a "lifelong dream" come true. Until now, no submersible at the site has ever gone missing.

www.nbcnews.com

So one person gets to shit while contemplating the mysteries of the deep while the other four sit in a dark tube as the stench overtakes them?

 

[ssringo]

Been keeping up with this story just to see how they died. Or, if they somehow manage to live, if any of them ever get on a submarine again.

I'm also reminded of that story a few years back where a rich dude used his personal submarine to murder a reporter (iirc).

Edit: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Kim_Wall

 

[SJRB]

Strong Darwin Award 2023 contenders.

I love the part where the dude basically says submarines are way too complicated and he brought everything down to one button. And then proceeds to show how he got parts for his submarine from a camping store. And then pulls out a fucking Logitech 20-year-old xbox controller and proudly says he controls the entire submarine with that thing.

And people still paid 250,000 to get on board with this guy.

 

[winjer]

From now on, they will be part of the tour

 

[Stitch]

So one person gets to shit while contemplating the mysteries of the deep while the other four sit in a dark tube as the stench overtakes them?

yeah, but the loud music makes them forget that it stinks like shit

 

[AJUMP23]

More money than sense in this case. Unfortunate to cost his life, and his son's I believe.

 

[kvltus lvlzvs]

Iron lung is a pretty cool game

 

[Alebrije]

Wow...what a way to die..so stupid.

 

[ahtlas7]

No way I’d climb into a death capsule with most of those people.

almost all sound like they could be marked targets.

 

[Revolutionary]

Imagine paying 250k to die in one of the worst ways imaginable.

That said, this isn't the worst Darwin Award contender I've heard this month. That kid that jumped off a party boat into shark infested waters is going into the annals of Darwin Award history.

 

[a multicultural team of v]

People really underestimate how scary and absolutely harsh deep sea is. We will be living on Mars before we have any routine access to the bottom of the ocean.

 

[Ownage]

Poseidon reached up and dragged them into the grave.

And they were bolted inside! Bolted inside. No way out, even if they surface, they're still stuck until they have the right gear to unseal the hatch.

Some of the ballast is abandoned construction pipes that are sitting on shelves on the side of the thing, and the way you detach the ballast is you get everybody onboard to lean to one side of the sub and they roll off.

Nope.

 

[jufonuk]

Imagine paying 250k to die in one of the worst ways imaginable.

That said, this isn't the worst Darwin Award contender I've heard this month. That kid that jumped off a party boat into shark infested waters is going into the annals of Darwin Award history.

wait what?
sorry to speak ill of the dead but
just saw that sorry but the kid should of done this

there is a shark on the video in the water


also with that sub you can't stand up or walk around or anything screw that nope not at all

 

[Dural]

Some are saying they got stuck in the wreckage and the sub has 96 hours of air, so there's hope they're still alive. I just wonder how fast anything could realistically get there to go down to try and rescue them.

 

[clarky]

Strong Darwin Award 2023 contenders.

I love the part where the dude basically says submarines are way too complicated and he brought everything down to one button. And then proceeds to show how he got parts for his submarine from a camping store. And then pulls out a fucking Logitech 20-year-old xbox controller and proudly says he controls the entire submarine with that thing.

And people still paid 250,000 to get on board with this guy.

Was just going to post, the thing is controlled by an xbox controller, probably an elite series 2 bumper stopped working and fucked them

 

[jufonuk]

Underwater sounds heard in search for sub - BBC News

The US Coast Guard confirms noises have been detected, after media reports of "banging sounds" from the area.

www.bbc.com

Titan sub: Cramped vessel is operated by video game controller

The world's only privately owned manned submersible has a unique design and some surprising features.

www.bbc.com

 

[clarky]

No way I’d climb into a death capsule with most of those people.

almost all sound like they could be marked targets.

Sounds like a pitch for a Final Destination reboot.

 

[clarky]

Some are saying they got stuck in the wreckage and the sub has 96 hours of air, so there's hope they're still alive. I just wonder how fast anything could realistically get there to go down to try and rescue them.

No chance of being rescued at that depth in what 48 hours? Impossible unfortunately.

 

[ManaByte]

Was just going to post, the thing is controlled by an xbox controller, probably an elite series 2 bumper stopped working and fucked them

It’s a Logitech PC controller.

 

[clarky]

It’s a Logitech PC controller.

Even worse.

Edit: im 6 pints deep and was trying to bring a little humor to a dire situation.

 

[Jeff Spicoli]

Imagine paying 250k to die in one of the worst ways imaginable.

Maybe Is an instant dead.

 

[Dural]

No chance of being rescued at that depth in what 48 hours? Impossible unfortunately.

I was thinking get them unstuck, then maybe the sub could resurface on it's own or it could be towed up. Time would really be the biggest issue I'd think being so far out to sea.

 

[clarky]

Th

I was thinking get them unstuck, then maybe the sub could resurface on it's own or it could be towed up. Time would really be the biggest issue I'd think being so far out to sea.

They were talking about a tow on the news. trying to get a cable down there at what 4000m ? Doesn't seems likely.

I think if they are alive, then time like you say is their biggest threat because they dont have very much.

Fucking idiotic idea if you ask me. How are these people so rich but so stupid at the same time?

 

[FunkMiller]

Fancy dying just because you wanted to see a shit boat.

 

[DosGamer]

First off... my thoughts and prayers with the family members of the individuals on this submarine as well as the individuals themselves. This is one of the most gut wrenching ways to go that I can think of.

Best case scenario is the sub got to the surface and is bobbing in the waves waiting to be located thus saving all souls on board... if its found in the next 40 hours.

Worst case is they are cramped and suffocating miles below the surface and will slowly meet their end.

Probable case is that it imploded due to some sort of malfunction or design/ age flaw. If this happened, their death was soo quick, they would not have had time to realize it.

just horrible to think about. This is the type of movie they can make ... that induces instant anxiety.

 

[BossLackey]

I've been following this story very closely. This disaster was an eventuality and they're almost certainly dead.

 

[German Hops]

what a titanic disaster.

 

[Artoris]

Maybe the sub is stuck inside the Titanic

 

[jufonuk]

this happened on Sunday right?

have they got rations or water or anything?

 

[TrumpacShakur]

This is the controller they used to maneuver the sub

 

[Sybrix]

this happened on Sunday right?

have they got rations or water or anything?

I don't recall hearing they have resources like that, all i've heard is oxygen for 96 hours.

 

[jufonuk]

I don't recall hearing they have resources like that, all i've heard is oxygen for 96 hours.

shit, so no kind of disaster recover or emergency things? man no the more I read watch hear about this sub, the more it seems like a dumb dumb idea

 

[cormack12]

This is the controller they used to maneuver the sub

I think that was susceptible to right stick drift. Rescue ship should start there.

The more this goes on, the more likely it was an implosion imo. No texts, no comms - how far would they be down after 1hr 45m. Isn't it like 8 hours to the bottom? I'm sure they have something like an hourly check in.

Seems like some basic ideas could have added some safeguards tho. Like a fluorescent dye that could float to the top.

 

[Sybrix]

shit, so no kind of disaster recover or emergency things? man no the more I read watch hear about this sub, the more it seems like a dumb dumb idea

It has weights on it that can be jettisoned to bring the sub back to the surface but if its wedged in somewhere that wont make a difference.

First thing they need to do is locate it, once its located they could possibly deploy another sub to get it or drop some sort of crane to get it but that's if they find it, plus they have to find it within the next 24 hours or so to even have a hope of their being survivors.

 

[Neff]

That fucking can is no Mir that's for sure

Also never, ever go third party on controllers.