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

Neil79 · 22 Jun 2023 at 22:32

Minusorange said:
It would have happened faster than the brain can process what is happening

It would be like this, but instant.. There's no oh look we have a leak

Again in spoilers! RIP to all those in the Submarine

lookitsjonno · 22 Jun 2023 at 22:33

Neil79 said:
Horrible to think but this is probably how it happened, albeit much quicker. Put it in spoilers as it may be difficult to watch for some

Would have been much more.instantanious. I think they reported the carbon fibre creaking on previous dives so they may well have heard some creaking then boom, vaporised

Neil79 · 22 Jun 2023 at 22:34

lookitsjonno said:
Would have been much more.instantanious. I think they reported the carbon fibre creaking on previous dives so they may well have heard some creaking then boom, vaporised

I think it was the Viewpoint that was creaking, atleast going by the latest reports

Jokester · 22 Jun 2023 at 22:34

Watching that vid, bit shocking that safety systems aren't fail safe.

lookitsjonno · 22 Jun 2023 at 22:35

Neil79 said:
I think it was the Viewpoint that was creaking, atleast going by the latest reports

Ah, maybe I read that bit wrong, yes you're right

gingergundog · 22 Jun 2023 at 22:39

Minusorange said:
Watching this now, that could have been a very very different documentary, cameras recording a tragedy unfold, but you can tell they were running a cowboy operation when the thruster wouldn't work, instead of getting the sub upto the surface to fix the issue, they bodged a solution on the fly while they had their tourists on board, "left and right might be forward and back, I dunno" words from the CEO while his faulty sub is at 4,000 metres under the ocean

Yeah it doesn't exactly inspire confidence. Starting to wonder if the passengers had even seen the previous and had just browsed the brochure. I'm all for innovation but surely its baby steps until you are confident in it.

Gerard · 22 Jun 2023 at 22:41

So a supposed billionaire and at least one other passenger came from a money background and this "sub" that looked like it was put together on a 5 minute segment of Blue Peter with sticky back plastic, tinfoil and a couple of empty bog rolls was the best option they could afford?

Christ...I know some people with money are tight but that's taking the **** considering the danger of going to those depths. Or were they just given a flashy presentation and thought it was all above board? No doubt there will be a big enquiry into this once all the dust has settled.

Last night Piers Morgan was hailing them as heroes. How exactly does that work?

Neil79 · 22 Jun 2023 at 22:41

gingergundog said:
Yeah it doesn't exactly inspire confidence. Starting to wonder if the passengers had even seen the previous and had just browsed the brochure. I'm all for innovation but surely its baby steps until you are confident in it.

Danger + Tourism

Happens too often, like this Incident where Tourists when to a very Active Volcano and couldn't escape the blast!

Minusorange · 22 Jun 2023 at 22:41

The man who found the Titanic

And the man who made the film

ABC getting the heavy hitters for interviews now

Neil79 · 22 Jun 2023 at 22:50

Minusorange said:
ABC getting the heavy hitters for interviews now

Just like the Titanic and the Captain ignored all warnings, at the same place a Captain ignored all warnings... Powerful stuff

aardvark · 22 Jun 2023 at 22:55

imtoooldforthis said:
So presumably they would have died from the implosion and it would have been instant and painless ? Or would there be a short period of time where they actually aware what was happening ?

i read that it would have been a millisecond and the temperatures would reach over 4000 degrees in that instant - so at least they didn't suffer.

Neil79 · 22 Jun 2023 at 22:57

aardvark said:
i read that it would have been a millisecond and the temperatures would reach over 4000 degrees in that instant - so at least they didn't suffer.

Thing is, we still don't and will never know if they knew something wasn't right down there before it went pop

Minusorange · 22 Jun 2023 at 22:57

Neil79 said:
Just like the Titanic and the Captain ignored all warnings, at the same place a Captain ignored all warnings... Powerful stuff

James interview was really good to be honest, interesting that he says that he Bob and their community think the sub had released its ballast and was trying to ascend to the surface, which means they must have know there was a problem

Neil79 · 22 Jun 2023 at 23:01

Professor Blair Thornton from the University of Southampton told BBC News ....

“In the case that this is a catastrophic failure of the main housing, the submersible would have been subjected to incredibly high pressures, equivalent to the weight of the Eiffel Tower, tens of thousands of tonnes, compressing the vessel," he said.

Crazy stuff....

Jay-G25 · 22 Jun 2023 at 23:03

Minusorange said:
James interview was really good to be honest, interesting that he says that he Bob and their community think the sub had released its ballast and was trying to ascend to the surface, which means they must have know there was a problem

Pretty much what i took from it , alarms going off saying crack in hull then they try to ascend by dropping ballast then it implodes

Jokester · 22 Jun 2023 at 23:05

Minusorange said:
James interview was really good to be honest, interesting that he says that he Bob and their community think the sub had released its ballast and was trying to ascend to the surface, which means they must have know there was a problem

Yeah, interesting he spoke about that as well, obviously people at Oceangate have been speaking to their friends in the industry much like that guy that was getting slated yesterday for saying the same thing.

Minusorange · 22 Jun 2023 at 23:09

Jokester said:
Yeah, interesting he spoke about that as well, obviously people at Oceangate have been speaking to their friends in the industry much like that guy that was getting slated yesterday for saying the same thing.

I think it means there's a lot more known about the wreck site, but the people doing the press conference only want to give out info what they know is a fact, which is sensible for such an incident

gingergundog · 22 Jun 2023 at 23:11

Pretty much comes down to the CEO putting too much faith in his hull monitoring system while using a carbon fibre hull that should have been used once only

TheGamingGeneral · 22 Jun 2023 at 23:12

I presume the craft doesn't have any kind of equivalent to an aircraft's black box? The Cameron and Ballard interviews were excellent, but totally chilling that it sounds like they knew there was a problem and tried to come back up by detaching the weights (atleast according to what Cameron said in the interview). Hopefully, the timeline between that and the implosion was short......

Jokester · 22 Jun 2023 at 23:14

Minusorange said:
I think it means there's a lot more known about the wreck site, but the people doing the press conference only want to give out info what they know is a fact, which is sensible for such an incident

Not sure about that, it sounds like Oceangate sat on pertinent information.