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

[gingergundog]

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-us-canada-65967464#:~:text=He says the,down its position.

Interesting. If its not sitting on the bottom of the ocean how would it be floating? Part dumping of the ballast tanks?

 

[Chuk_Chuk]

Wouldn't they be preserved like food in airtight containers once they run out of oxygen ?

I don't think running out of oxygen means literally no O2 in the air. I believe it is when the concentration is too little to support human life. So Bacteria can still grow I believe.

 

[beachBOYken]

I believe it’s a 4 hour trip down, 4 hours back up.

I thought it was 8hr in total. About 2hr dive to wreck, though 4hrs seems a long time down there in such a hostile environment.

 

[danlightbulb]

It was 2 hrs down, several hours looking around, 2 hrs back up.

So losing contact 1:45 in, means they were nearly at the bottom (according to plan anyway).

 

[NVP]

 

[MooMoo444]

The more and more info I read about this sub, the worse it gets. Feels like it was built in some hobbyist's basement.

 

[Mercenary Keyboard Warrior]

I don't think running out of oxygen means literally no O2 in the air. I believe it is when the concentration is too little to support human life. So Bacteria can still grow I believe.

Indeed, food is not preserved in an airtight container. Its decay is slowed.
Even preservation in many cases does not prevent decay it just significantly delays it.

 

[adam cool dude]

If they are on the surface surely one of them has some form of communication on them or some form of GPS?

It is one thing dying at the bottom but at the top would be even worse!

 

[Mercenary Keyboard Warrior]

I read on the BBC News site’s live feed about this (but typically can’t find it again to quote) that supposedly for the banging on the hull to be heard, the submersible should be relatively close to the surface. The fact someone is banging is accredited to the presence of the French Navy man on board, as this is supposedly the process if lost under water at sea.

Even if the sub was surfaced, it would apparently be very difficult to spot, as only a tiny piece of it is actually visible above the surface.

Yep, this is why they lay sonar arrays.
The difference in the time it takes for each beacon to detect the signal allows for triangulation (in 3 axis) of the source.
(Same principle as GPS)

 

[bayo000]

It was 2 hrs down, several hours looking around, 2 hrs back up.

So losing contact 1:45 in, means they were nearly at the bottom (according to plan anyway).

That makes more sense

 

[Alice In Wonderland]

The internal light was literally a battery baton from Camper World too.

OceanGate CEO reveals Titanic submersible uses ‘game controller’ in resurfaced clip

The OceanGate CEO believed to be missing on board a Titanic exploration submersible described how the vessel was “built with camping” parts and operated with a “game controller” in a resurfaced video. In November 2022, Stockton Rush told CBS the Titan craft was built with “off-the-shelf...

www.independent.co.uk

That's terrible!

 

[MoNkeE]

It was 2 hrs down, several hours looking around, 2 hrs back up.

So losing contact 1:45 in, means they were nearly at the bottom (according to plan anyway).

I stand corrected!

I actually wonder if they completed their original mission, but simply not comms has made it impossible to find then afterwards.

Either way, I’ve been checking the BBC pretty often hoping for a good news story!

 

[Tombstone]

Well that guy is clearly equally insane, so he says that there were issues when he went down, yet he went 3 more times, so it obviously didnt bother him that much until right now.

 

[Alice In Wonderland]

I feel for the father, being trapped in there with your son makes a terrible situation even worse.

You couldn't get a more horrific death than that, I don't think.

 

[potatolord]

You couldn't get a more horrific death than that, I don't think.

And knowing your decision put him there.

 

[thenewoc]

The taps are now being reported as being SOS.

No news yet on the US coast guard allowing the two British submersible companies to supply specialist equipment that they have ready.

Trapped Titanic submarine victims desperately ‘banging SOS’ on doomed craft at 3,800m

Rescuers confirm they’ve heard plea for help but just 24 hours left until ill-fated vessel runs out of oxygen

www.gbnews.com

 

[Alice In Wonderland]

And knowing your decision put him there.

Yup.

 

[VaderDSL]

The L'Atlante ship is showing on the marine tracking map about 200-250 miles away, will this be the first ship with an ROV capable of going down to the wreck site?

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[potatolord]

I wonder if anyone will be looking at increased regulation of this sort of activity.

Being cold-hearted, this could be a very significant cost for the various countries involved.

 

[fez]

I was saying to my partner last night that I would 100% take some sort of "medication" down with me on something like that so I could die peacefully if it came to it. Absolute nightmare fuel dying at the bottom of the ocean as you slowly suffocate. I kinda hope they died quickly from an incident.