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

[Spidey Man]

Looks like they've found debris

Live updates | Titan's catastrophic implosion likely killed 5 occupants instantly, experts say

Experts say the Titan submersible suffered a catastrophic implosion that likely killed its pilot and four passengers instantly amid the intense water pressure in the deep North Atlantic.

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'Catastrophic implosion': Navy detected acoustic anomaly shortly after Titan lost contact

The debris field suggests that the missing sub suffered a "catastrophic implosion," the Coast Guard said.

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Maybe they can recover the bodies. I don't know what's a worse way to go. Suffocating in the dark covered in piss and shyt, or getting crushed by the pressure of the ocean.

I hope they put that quote the CEO said about industry safety regulations on his tombstone.

 

[TheDarceKnight]

Maybe they can recover the bodies. I don't know what's a worse way to go. Suffocating in the dark covered in piss and shyt, or getting crushed by the pressure of the ocean.

I hope they put that quote the CEO said about industry safety regulations on his tombstone.

If they got crushed, would there even be much to recover? Mythbusters episode below on what that type of pressure does to the human body.

Spoiler alert it's kind of gross

 

[NZA]

im sure the navy knew they were dead for a while. time to just be honest. the noise was probably the implosion and then the sounds of feasting on the mushy flesh by schools of deep sea fish.

 

[TheDarceKnight]

im sure the navy knew they were dead for a while. time to just be honest. the noise was probably the implosion and then the sounds of feasting on the mushy flesh by schools of deep sea fish.

I think it imploded way before the recorded noise. The ocean is a noisy place and those sounds could've been anything.

 

[Whips-n-Chains]

Maybe they can recover the bodies. I don't know what's a worse way to go. Suffocating in the dark covered in piss and shyt, or getting crushed by the pressure of the ocean.

I hope they put that quote the CEO said about industry safety regulations on his tombstone.

Crushed in a fraction of a second would be “better.” I’m almost positive you’re dead before your brain can even register any pain.

 

[TheDarceKnight]

Crushed in a fraction of a second would be “better.” I’m almost positive you’re dead before your brain can even register any pain.

100%

 

[nyknick]

im sure the navy knew they were dead for a while. time to just be honest. the noise was probably the implosion and then the sounds of feasting on the mushy flesh by schools of deep sea fish.

The Wall Street Journal reports that a “top secret US navy acoustic detection system designed to spot enemy submarines first heard the Titan sub implosion hours after the submersible began its mission”.”

According to the WSJ:

The Navy began listening for the Titan almost as soon as the sub lost communications, according to a US defense official. Shortly after its disappearance, the US system detected what it suspected was the sound of an implosion near the debris site discovered Thursday and reported its findings to the commander on site, US defense officials said.
“The US Navy conducted an analysis of acoustic data and detected an anomaly consistent with an implosion or explosion in the general vicinity of where the Titan submersible was operating when communications were lost,” a senior US Navy official told The Wall Street Journal in a statement. “While not definitive, this information was immediately shared with the Incident Commander to assist with the ongoing search and rescue mission.”
The Navy asked that the specific system used not be named, citing national security concerns.

 

[NZA]

i knew it. so much in this hemisphere is caught on spy tech but you cant automatically reveal things. knowing earlier wouldnt help those people anyway, but it would help get this ridiculous story out of the news cycle a little faster

 

[Serious]

So they’ve been dead since sunday

 

[nyknick]

OceanGate’s Stockton Rush ultimate aim – aiding oil and gas extration.

The AP reports:

OceanGate, the company he founded in 2009, sought not just to profit from bringing wealthy adventurers to sites such as the wreck of the Titanic, but to help scientists and researchers unravel oceanic mysteries by giving them better access to the sea floor than ever before — in vessels that would break the boundaries of how submersibles are developed.

While his company was initially focused on underwater tourism, his long-term aim was to work with oil and gas companies. Fast Company reported in a 2017 piece:

Eventually, as the pool of wealthy adventure-minded travelers willing to take a dive in a sub dwindles, Rush hopes that his submarine technology will be well proven, and he can start to contract with the biggest of the high rollers: oil and gas companies. “The biggest resource is oil and gas, and they spend about $16 billion a year on robots to service oil and gas platforms,” he explains. “But oil and gas [companies] don’t take new technology. They want it proven, they want it out there.”

The Titanic trips help make the case, showing those oil and gas companies that his technology works, while making a profit—something the company hasn’t quite done yet. “We’ll be profitable with the Titanic trips,” says Rush. “The Titanic is where we go from startup to ongoing business.”

 

[Cuban Pete]

Thousands of years and human beings (mostly cacs) STILL not putting any respect on the same ocean thats literally been claiming bodies since time inmemorial

 

[Spidey Man]

That's probably why that deep sea savage ship never left port.

 

[ADevilYouKhow]

That's probably why that deep sea savage ship never left port.

Savage as fukk, God

 

[TheDarceKnight]

 

[ADevilYouKhow]

James Cameron's Take On The Titan Disaster Is The Best We've Heard

The "Titanic" director is also an experienced deep-sea explorer who is the first person to make a solo descent the deepest part of the ocean.

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