Commercial submarine ($250,000 per ticket) exploring Titanic loses contact w/ 5 onboard, 4 days of oxygen

[Studious one]

That thing wasn’t meant to be at those depths….very likely they imploded. I'm willing to bet this happened, which caused to system to go dark/communications to fail...everything was destroyed in a fraction of a second and everyone was dead instantly. I hope I'm wrong and they return safe, but it's looking more and more likely that the sub will never be found, especially if it's been collapsed.

^^this implosion is just from atmospheric pressure...I read somewhere that the depths they were at were hundreds of times greater than atmospheric pressure. Look what happens to the steel beam in this gif...it bends like a twig, so that half-assed sub might be collapsed to the size of soda can under all that pressure.

"When the diver reaches 10 meters (33 feet), the pressure is double what it was at the surface. For every 10 meters of water, hydrostatic pressure increases by one atmosphere. At the average ocean depth (3,800 meters), pressure on the sea floor is a whopping 380 times greater than it is at the surface."

Wow. That gif perfectly illustrates the point.

 

[ADevilYouKhow]

When they say death by misadventure this is what they’re talking about right?

 

[Wargames]

That thing wasn’t meant to be at those depths….very likely they imploded. I'm willing to bet this happened, which caused to system to go dark/communications to fail...everything was destroyed in a fraction of a second and everyone was dead instantly. I hope I'm wrong and they return safe, but it's looking more and more likely that the sub will never be found, especially if it's been collapsed.

^^this implosion is just from atmospheric pressure...I read somewhere that the depths they were at were hundreds of times greater than atmospheric pressure. Look what happens to the steel beam in this gif...it bends like a twig, so that half-assed sub might be collapsed to the size of soda can under all that pressure.

"When the diver reaches 10 meters (33 feet), the pressure is double what it was at the surface. For every 10 meters of water, hydrostatic pressure increases by one atmosphere. At the average ocean depth (3,800 meters), pressure on the sea floor is a whopping 380 times greater than it is at the surface."

Was this the first time they took it down that far or were they just risking their lives everytime it went down

 

[Whips-n-Chains]

Was this the first time they took it down that far or were they just risking their lives everytime it went down

Was not the first. I read that there was signs of pressure damage to the haul and that this same sub had been lost before

 

[Wargames]

Was not the first. I read that there was signs of pressure damage to the haul and that this same sub had been lost before

Considering how deep they went.... Is there a chance they never find the wreckage?

 

[Whips-n-Chains]

Considering how deep they went.... Is there a chance they never find the wreckage?

I’ll be real, I’m not an expert, but I always get really interested in this stuff. It’s really unlikely they ever find it, it might be collapsed into a tiny piece/pieces, or depending on how carbon fiber reactions under pressure it could be broken into a bunch of really tiny pieces.

They’re searching an area the size of Connecticut for any survivors. Each passing day the pieces can drift further and further away, and even if not imagine scouring the ocean floor, hundred ms of square miles looking for that sub that was 22 feet long, now if it’s crushed it’ll be even harder to locate and if it’s in tiny pieces, nearly impossible.

I bet they never find this thing, but since ultra wealthy ppl died, they might keep looking for a long ass time.

 

[Whips-n-Chains]

Search craft reportedly heard “banging” sounds in 30 minute intervals coming from an area near the wreckage.

Searchers for Titanic Tourist Sub Heard 'Banging' From Area, Internal Comms Reveal

Internal email updates to DHS leadership obtained by Rolling Stone show searchers heard "banging" in the area where Titan submersible disappeared.

www.rollingstone.com

 

[Skooby]

Search craft reportedly heard “banging” sounds in 30 minute intervals coming from an area near the wreckage.

Searchers for Titanic Tourist Sub Heard 'Banging' From Area, Internal Comms Reveal

Internal email updates to DHS leadership obtained by Rolling Stone show searchers heard "banging" in the area where Titan submersible disappeared.

www.rollingstone.com

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“The P8 deployed sonobuoys, which reported a contact in a position close to the distress position. The P8 heard banging sounds in the area every 30 minutes. Four hours later additional sonar was deployed and banging was still heard.” The announcement did not state what time the banging was heard, or what was thought to have caused it.

The Boston Coast Guard declined to comment on the reported “banging” sounds, as did the Joint Rescue Coordination Centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The U.S. Fleet Forces Command, the DHS, and the U.S. Coast Guard did not respond to requests for comment.
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I think they found it but they just don't have a way to get it yet so they're not saying anything.

 

[ADevilYouKhow]

 

[Whips-n-Chains]

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“The P8 deployed sonobuoys, which reported a contact in a position close to the distress position. The P8 heard banging sounds in the area every 30 minutes. Four hours later additional sonar was deployed and banging was still heard.” The announcement did not state what time the banging was heard, or what was thought to have caused it.

The Boston Coast Guard declined to comment on the reported “banging” sounds, as did the Joint Rescue Coordination Centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The U.S. Fleet Forces Command, the DHS, and the U.S. Coast Guard did not respond to requests for comment.
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I think they found it but they just don't have a way to get it yet so they're not saying anything.

Possible….Rolling Stone could be full of shyt too.

Article says the banging hasn’t been heard since yesterday

Interesting none the less

 

[ADevilYouKhow]

Even if the Titan can be located — in a remote patch of ocean where the seafloor lies more than two miles below the choppy surface — retrieving it might not be easy. To recover objects off the seafloor, the U.S. Navy uses a remote-operated vehicle that can reach depths of 20,000 feet. But ships that carry such a vehicle normally move no faster than about 20 miles per hour, and the Titanic wreck lies about 370 miles off the coast of Newfoundland.


Welp

 

[Professor Emeritus]

I hope they're not giving 10x the resources for this that they'd give for any regular fisherman's boat who was lost, just cause it's rich and famous people involved. Some of the "explorers" on this trip have been tempting death like this regularly for their own clout and profits, then the public pays the costs when it goes wrong.

 

[GzUp]

Even if the Titan can be located — in a remote patch of ocean where the seafloor lies more than two miles below the choppy surface — retrieving it might not be easy. To recover objects off the seafloor, the U.S. Navy uses a remote-operated vehicle that can reach depths of 20,000 feet. But ships that carry such a vehicle normally move no faster than about 20 miles per hour, and the Titanic wreck lies about 370 miles off the coast of Newfoundland.


Welp

Why not just get a long ass cable with a giant magnet and pull that hoe up?

 

[Skooby]

Why not just get a long ass cable with a giant magnet and pull that hoe up?

Right. Have to get creative at this point.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Wiki article right now makes it sound like the entire operation was a total shytshow.


"Once the occupants are aboard, the hatch is closed and bolted from the outside; there is no way to open the hatch from inside the vessel."

"In addition, there is no on-board navigation system; the support ship, which monitors the position of Titan relative to its target, sends text messages to Titan providing distances and directions."

"Journalist David Pogue, who rode in Titan to view the Titanic in 2022, noted that Titan was not equipped with an emergency locator beacon; during his expedition, the surface support vessel lost track of the Titan 'for about five hours, and adding such a beacon was discussed. They could still send short texts to the sub, but did not know where it was. It was quiet and very tense, and they shut off the ship's internet to keep us from tweeting.'"

"David Lochridge, the OceanGate Director of Marine Operations, inspected the Titan as it was being handed over from Engineering to Operations and filed a quality control report in January 2018 in which he stated that no non-destructive testing of the carbon fiber hull had taken place to check for voids and delaminating which could compromise the hull's strength. Instead, Lochridge was told that OceanGate would rely on the real-time acoustic monitoring system, which he felt would not warn the crew of potential failure with sufficient time to safely abort the mission and evacuate."

"The day after he filed his report, he was summoned to a meeting in which he was told the acrylic window was only rated to 1,300 m (4,300 ft) depth because OceanGate would not fund the design of a window rated to 4,000 m (13,000 ft). In that meeting, he reiterated his concerns and added he would refuse to allow crewed testing without a hull scan; Lochridge was dismissed from his position as a result. OceanGate filed a lawsuit against Lochridge that June, accusing him of improperly sharing proprietary trade secrets and fraudulently manufacturing a reason to dismiss him. The suit was settled in November 2018."

"In January 2020, the hull of Titan began showing signs of cyclic fatigue and the craft was de-rated to 3,000 m (9,800 ft).[27] The Spencer-built composite cylindrical hull either was repaired or replaced by Electroimpact and Janicki Industries in 2020 or 2021, prior to the first trips to Titanic."

OceanGate - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org