That is quite the story.
Titanic tourist submersible missing | Sub's debris found - crew "have been lost"
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Most likely.
Rough man, but at least it's quick.
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I’m sure many people do. But I doubt people would visit them if they were built with a crane by some bloke in 1972. People visit them because they were built by thousands of slaves in an ancient civilisation, for grand pharaohs to travel to the afterlife. If you’re not bothered by any of that though, I’m not here to tell you what you should and shouldn’t be interested in.
I know it's probably the most merciful way for them to go but, fecking hell, those poor folk if this is what happened. At least it would be quick.
Horrific, poor feckers, a simple procedure not followed and you end up split into multiple pieces and your liver on the wall 30ft away
Unfortunately this just raises awareness and attracts more people. They'll be two 'Titan's' this time next year. It's like all those people who have died on Everest this year has just made more people sign up for next year.
In the future, any riders all need to sign a waiver that they will not be getting any assistance if there is a catastrophic event like this one. Foolish to waste & endanger assets to come to the rescue of five more dilettante rich feckers.
At that depth, you'd never know.
In all seriousness IF it did implode, chances are that it was the window which wasn’t certified for that depth?
Based on my ABSOLUTE ZERO EXPERIENCE, I'd say yes.
Not the next one, when was the previous one?
After all of this, I wouldn't be surprised if the lone piece of the debris surviving was the Logitech controller. Dem yokes do be built like 3210s
Based on my uneducated guess I concur
Heard of one a year ago. Perhaps they can only drop coffins at this time of year?
Occam's Razor I suppose.
So they were killed by the one thing most likely to kill them? How ironic.
Or by the thing that made the trip worthwhile.
Wait, what? There was uncertified equipment on the vessel?
Did the CEO Stockton Rush always make the trip?
The whole vessel was unsafe.
Yeah but surely they had equipment that could reach that depth otherwise death is definitely coming at some point.
didn't you read the thread ? The whole thing was uncertified and tourists had to sign a waiver.Apparently the landing frame and a hatch have been discovered close to titanic in debris field. Hull still not found.
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The whole thing was uncertified. I'm sure it must have had some equipment that was certified to the depth, but key items like the port hole was only certified to about 30% the depth they needed, and the body wasn't at all.
Yeah but you have to sign a waiver when you have surgery so that kind of shit is mandatory for anything with the slightest bit of risk. But I mean surely the thing was certified to go to the depths they were going? It's like putting shelves up that have a weight capacity of 20kg then stacking 50kg on them and being surprised when they come crashing down.
It's kind of the equivalent of dropping a car on a sealed plunger with air inside it, but replace car with a cylinder of water reaching as high as Mount Fuji and as wide as the submersible. Heavy as feck.
The force of the water compresses the air in the submersible so fast that it creates a shock wave (a thin layer of air through which violent and sudden physical and chemical changes can happen) and large increases in air temperature and pressure. So you simultaneously boil, have your eardrums and soft membranes ruptured (internally and externally), and get ripped apart (blunt force trauma) due to the heated pressurized air, the shock wave, and the force of the water that is now entering this relative vacuum.
This happens in milliseconds.
Holy shit, that's insane. So why would you get in it then? It's fecking stupid in fact.
Where have you been?
The whole craft was uncertified. No one was willing to sign it off as safe, and the mad bloke that built it wore that as a badge of honour as he saw himself as an innovator and thought rules would just slow his "innovation" down.
It was a can with a window, controlled by an ancient PC gamepad, with a milk carton behind a curtain for a toilet, and a couple of shit benches for "comfort".
So you're essentially liquidised within a couple of seconds? Jesus that's grim but still better than waiting 4 days to die and knowing you're going to die.
I knew they would have been crushed but I didn't know the other stuff so thanks for that.
And that's just a vacuum at 1 atmosphere. The pressure differential 4km down would surely be orders of magnitude greater than that. If it imploded I think it would have been literally and instantly obliterated. I don't think they'd have any time to feel pain, or possibly even notice.
In one of the videos shared the waiver was read out loud partially. You are signing that you are boarding a vessel that is not certified in any official way.
They wouldn't even survive a couple of seconds, it's basically instant death.
Blind leading the blind. All idiots.
I think I read that he was going to go down on all the initial trips and then go on every third one thereafter. I dunno if it ever got as far as the second part of his plan.
Sadly I'm pretty sure it's in pieces buy now. It must have been since they lost contact. The materials Lochridge was concerned about obviously didn't hold up. The depths of the ocean is a force you don't take lightly or mess with.
Tried to avoid the story, a bit macabre to think about a bunch of people sitting on the ocean floor with no chance of rescue just waiting to run out of oxygen and die. Now I know they're dead I'm interested in the post mortem of what went wrong.
But yeah, capitalism right?
We’ll, they’re out there looking for the Titan. They wouldn’t have given this brief about finding the debris if they had found some crap down there.