Titanic submersible confirmed destroyed with loss of all five souls onboard.

413x said:
No way they are going to get them out.

Anybody saying this stuff should be banned... That's ridiculous. What would life be with no risk? Especially when it's yours to choose!

Unfortunately this is a high risk situation and things can and do go wrong. Feel for those people. 96 hours must be horrendous. The experts probably know thier fate.

So tragic. But thems the risks. They would have been fully briefed. Though I accept it's one of those you never think it's gonna happen to You!
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Never say never - nothing like that depth, not even remotely close only 30-40m, but there was that guy (Harrison Okene) found alive in a sunken ship 60 hours later when the salvage team went in.
 
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Dunno if there is any meaning to it (maybe just duty rotation) but US Coast Guard is flying into the area while the specialist surveying, etc. ships and aircraft seem to be pulling or have pulled out.
 
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GIBURROWS said:
Not round my way they aren't.
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I've never known anyone arrested for smoking it but apparently back in the 80s CID would mess with the dealers doing stuff like driving them a few miles out of town and making them walk back barefoot, etc., wouldn't get away with it these days.
 
Rroff said:
Dunno if there is any meaning to it (maybe just duty rotation) but US Coast Guard is flying into the area while the specialist surveying, etc. ships and aircraft seem to be pulling or have pulled out.
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Probably just playing lip service due to the press attention
 
To me, the only thing that could have happened is a leak/implosion. Otherwise, there would be messages from them, or it would have surfaced. If it was an implosion, then, mercifully, death would have been very quick indeed. The pressure down there is a couple of tons per square inch. Even the tiniest failure and you are instantly dead.
 
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Needle in a haystack comes to mind. Must be terrifying if they’re still alive in there. You’d think it would have some kind of powerful tracking system, but then the whole thing doesn’t look all that high tech.
 
The sub can dive to 4000m, the wreck is 3800m down. Crazily close to it's limits.

Surely it must have some type of transponder.
 
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Just saw the quote from the journalist who went on there ‘you steer this sub with an Xbox controller, some of the ballast is abandoned construction pipes’. He doesn’t seem to be wrong looking at it. Plus no escape pod. It’s like this company have just thrown a huge price tag to attract some with too much money, who as usual thinks, it’s really expensive, it must be good.
 
CaptainRAVE said:
Just saw the quote from the journalist who went on there ‘you steer this sub with an Xbox controller, some of the ballast is abandoned construction pipes’. He doesn’t seem to be wrong looking at it. Plus no escape pod. It’s like this company have just thrown a huge price tag to attract some with too much money, who as usual thinks, it’s really expensive, it must be good.
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Simple design doesn't mean it isn't good.
 
you abandon the ballast to resurface ? or, they have buoyancy tanks like a sub to which you could consecrate vital air ?

... a transponder you could release too the surface , r4 was just saying they get sealed in so would have to wait for help even if it surfaced
 
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