Missing Sub

[SIRandyraven]

What caught my eye was cost of 8 day holiday/trip at £195,000.
Hope they are all recovered ok.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-65953872

[bhg481]

If things have gone wrong I think the only saving-grace is that it should be a painless death. If the oxygen runs out they'll just fall asleep; if the hull splits it will be instantaneous death. The only problem could be fear if they know there is a problem

[Untitled]

the bolted shut thing is in the OP by someone from the company

the screens thing is from a news report someone made about it last year which was being shared earlier today... the window is next to the toilet and isn't going to show very much that deep. the main viewing that you do is through a monitor.

[naomi24]

Fear is what’s going through my mind, BHG. No power, drifting in pitch black darkness waiting for the oxygen to run out. God! Those poor people.

[naomi24]

Untitled. What’s the point of paying all that money and taking that sort of risk just to see it on a screen? That doesn’t make sense.

[bhg481]

Back in 1999 we had a day-trip to France to watch the eclipse. I was talking to some of my work colleagues when we got back and asked if they'd watched it; "Yes, we watched it on the internet". It didn't seem to occur to them that they hadn't really seen it.

[Untitled]

on further checking it seems i am mistaken... this article has a photo of the window in use

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/inside-cramped-titan-submersible-missing-titanic-shipwreck-103255144.html

i think perhaps i got it confused with a video about the submarine that james cameron used for deep sea diving

[Khandro]

Untitled; //there aren't even windows on this thing... when you get there you "look" at the titanic through video screens//

https://ibb.co/XJNfH1H

[Untitled]

yep i was definitely mistaken on that one

[bednobs]

let's hope it's either suffered a catastrophic failure, in which case, mercifully, things would have been over very quickly or that it can still be rescued

[Spungle]

Perhaps it is really time to leave the Titanic alone.

[retrocop]

https://uk.yahoo.com/news/richard-madeley-slammed-over-submarine-comments-141556901.html

[DTCwordfan]

retro - shame the sub-editor didn't get to stamp on the ill-judged remarks first.

[douglas9401]

Deep.

[anneasquith]

He’s an idiot, why he ever gets tv time is remarkable .

[Khandro]

Sounds detected !!
Let us hope & pray.

[naomi24]

I read that, Khandro. They've heard a knocking sound so think they're alive and very close to Titanic. Last night they said there was probably about 40 hours oxygen left so that's down to about 30 now. I just hope they have enough time but how on earth are they going to haul that thing back up?

[1ozzy]

Some people paid a lot of money to do this trip.
Hopefully they were smart enough to understand the risks.

Not just rich enough.

[Khandro]

^^ You're all heart !

[rowanwitch]

For a rescue they will probably need a vessel with its own ROV capable of working at that depth, that can hook some form of cabling to the submersible and a winch powerful enough to do the lift.... Still a lot of ifs buts and maybes. Is there even a suitable craft that can get there in time.

[naomi24]

Doing it remotely has to be a nightmare, Rowan, but that's the only way it can be done.