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

[Whips-n-Chains]

"David Pogue, a CBS reporter who travelled in the Titan submersible last year, told the BBC about the issues that both the submersible crew and the land crew were likely to be experiencing, saying that there was currently "no way" to communicate with the vessel as neither GPS nor radio "work under water"."


GPS doesn't work underwater? then how tf do scientists tag and track sharks/whales for months/years at a time? What kind of bogus rinkydink GPS where these MFers using for this sub?

 

[Joe Sixpack]

Why the hell would someone go on this shyt??

People are stupid as hell

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

This is unfortunate. Also shyt is expensive as fukk…. 250k is a lot to pay to drown

they won't drown, just suffocate or implode...i think $250k is a good going rate for implosion

 

[Wargames]

they won't drown, just suffocate or implode...i think $250k is a good going rate for implosion

Two of three are possibly the worst ways to die. Swap suffocating for fire and it's gruesome to consider.

 

[ADevilYouKhow]

Could’ve been like a death pact thing?

 

[GnauzBookOfRhymes]

If I'm a billionaire I'm adding all kinds of ignorantly expensive rescue systems to any of my toys. Private jets with a rescue pod that can be rolled out the back. Massive parachutes. Massive self deployed balloons to float this bytch to the surface lol.

Finally the superyacht from which this sub deploys will have a 100,000 ft spool of undersea worthy data cable reinforced so powerfully it doubles as a rescue line lol

 

[Skooby]

I understand having a sense of adventure but take the proper safety precautions first.

 

[julesocean]

"David Pogue, a CBS reporter who travelled in the Titan submersible last year, told the BBC about the issues that both the submersible crew and the land crew were likely to be experiencing, saying that there was currently "no way" to communicate with the vessel as neither GPS nor radio "work under water"."


GPS doesn't work underwater? then how tf do scientists tag and track sharks/whales for months/years at a time? What kind of bogus rinkydink GPS where these MFers using for this sub?

All technology rapidly flabs out the deeper you go (the farther way). Titanic sits at 4000 meters under water.

 

[ADevilYouKhow]

If I'm a billionaire I'm adding all kinds of ignorantly expensive rescue systems to any of my toys. Private jets with a rescue pod that can be rolled out the back. Massive parachutes. Massive self deployed balloons to float this bytch to the surface lol.

Finally the superyacht from which this sub deploys will have a 100,000 ft spool of undersea worthy data cable reinforced so powerfully it doubles as a rescue line lol

Can’t escape death, Bruh

 

[Whips-n-Chains]

All technology rapidly flabs out the deeper you go (the farther way). Titanic sits at 4000 meters under water.

Damn...I didn't realize that most military subs don't even go that deep

 

[Whips-n-Chains]

 

[sjankis630]

I don't even think they will be safe if it somehow surfaced. Unless they are found according to the David Pogue story there is no way for the people in the sub to get out without someone from the outside letting them out via unscrewing 17 huge bolts.
So if they somehow have not imploded down there and even if they submersible somehow gets to the surface they are still on oxygen until the hull is opened.
Damn time is running out.

 

[ADevilYouKhow]

I don't even think they will be safe if it somehow surfaced. Unless they are found according to the David Pogue story there is no way for the people in the sub to get out without someone from the outside letting them out via unscrewing 17 huge bolts.
So if they somehow have not imploded down there and even if they submersible somehow gets to the surface they are still on oxygen until the hull is opened.
Damn time is running out.

Interesting. No mention of hijacking or terrorism so far.

 

[Whips-n-Chains]

I don't even think they will be safe if it somehow surfaced. Unless they are found according to the David Pogue story there is no way for the people in the sub to get out without someone from the outside letting them out via unscrewing 17 huge bolts.
So if they somehow have not imploded down there and even if they submersible somehow gets to the surface they are still on oxygen until the hull is opened.
Damn time is running out.

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."

 

[MostReal]