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

[Priapus]

There will not be any remains left at all, they would have basically been completely destroyed and any biological material in the water already consumed by ocean life.

There was a guy on TikTok following sharks on a tracking app - 2 sharks apparently went directly to the titanic wreck area, and have remained in the area since…….likely they picked up the blood in the water, strange coincidence 2 sharks went directly to the area of the titanic for no apparent reason & surfaced to allow their transmitters to work, sharks tend to exist near the surface to get warm before diving really deep depending on the species……..the fact the sharks have transmitters says they are a type that likes to swim at all depths.

I’m not sure that’s anything more than a coincidence. Sharks can only go down to about 3000 meters. Since the sub lost contact at 1h45m and it takes 2hrs to get to the titanic - I suspect they were past 3000m.

 

[Diddums]

Landing frame and rear cover found

RIP

Sauce?

 

[Priapus]

If that's all they've found(Frame and cover), it'd have been over in seconds.

Less than that I think.

 

[darkgen]

Complete and utter folly for the individuals involved but some mercy that death would have been instantaneous. Such an endeavour still remains incomprehensible to me.

 

[C Kent]

Woosh

Aye went over my head that one

 

[200sols]

Sauce?

Brown.

 

[robfosters]

Risking your life in the name of discovery and exploration is necessary for human advancement, but doing in the name of glorified sightseeing is indeed foolish beyond belief.

 

[Chris Wilson]

hardly built in a shed

NASA helped build the thing

Williams Grand Prix Engineering built a lift for Sir Stirling Moss. Nonetheless when he opened the lift doors at night and stepped inside what he thought was the carriage it wasn't there and he sustained nasty injuries. **** happens. Stories have nuances not always available to the reader.

 

[Mercenary Keyboard Warrior]

That is difficult to be honest. Not saying i do not see where you are coming from but then what about mountaineers.......... or skydivers......... or scuba divers, people who go caving or what ever it is called?

i assume you draw a line somewhere and not just literally take - if it is non essential and purely recreational but risky you are totally on your own.

yes going to the titanic is extreme. personally i think the travellers themselves putting a significant chunk of change down to put to the rescue effort in advance, refundable on safe return would at least help cover the cost.

Partly the reason why on everest for example you have to pay quite a high fee for climbing, so in effect all the mountaineers are crowdfunding their own potential rescues

 

[thenewoc]

Complete and utter folly for the individuals involved but some mercy that death would have been instantaneous. Such an endeavour still remains incomprehensible to me.

Yep, they should have put it down there with just cameras and a tether to transmit the footage back to the surface. They could have sold access to the footage at some smaller cinema chain.

 

[lookitsjonno]

Risking your life in the name of discovery and exploration is necessary for human advancement, but doing in the name of glorified sightseeing is indeed foolish beyond belief.

I thought the trip was for 'science'

 

[Neil79]

Landing frame and rear cover found

RIP

 

[adam cool dude]

Wouldn't it just shatter into loads of fragments being CF ?

No idea I doubt many people have pressure tested cylindrical carbon fibre to the pressures of 4000 meters under the sea!

 

[robfosters]

I thought the trip was for 'science'

Well, for one, they are not scientists or any kind of oceanographers in any way, and secondly, what more is there to be discovered? It’s been explored numerous times already and anything of note has already been stripped.

 

[squerble]

Yep, they should have put it down there with just cameras and a tether to transmit the footage back to the surface. They could have sold access to the footage at some smaller cinema chain.

Should have or should've**
Could have or could've**

This forum needs an auto-ban for anyone posting "could/would/should have"

 

[Werewolf]

Can we try to keep it somewhat tasteful please, it looks like people have died.

 

[dave28]

Sauce?

'Landing frame and rear cover' found at debris field in hunt for missing sub

Admiral Sir James Burnell-Nugent, former Commander-in-Chief Fleet of the Royal Navy, told Sky News that "the nature of the announcement suggests this debris is in some way connected with the Titan".

news.sky.com

 

[Mekrel]

I was hoping there was a slim chance the sub would be found stricken and recovered, or has been on the surface all this time. If the debris field is indeed from the Titan, hopefully it's from the result of the sub imploding where those inside would have not felt their demise.

 

[adam cool dude]

Yep, they should have put it down there with just cameras and a tether to transmit the footage back to the surface. They could have sold access to the footage at some smaller cinema chain.

You would have thought that would have been a plan in the first place. Have it go down unmanned on a tether several times and then fully tested for any weakness. No need for any waste of human life.

 

[Psycho Ned]

Not sure if they'll ever find the cause (depends on how much of it they can recover I guess) but suppose obvious finger in the air guesswork is they went to the well (or in this case ocean) one time too often with a craft not tested for repeated trips or repaired improperly.