I get the impression people who do stuff like this and free climbing for example know they’re going to die doing it at some point. It’s the people they casually meet and get involved along the way who have no idea how stupid and dangerous it really is.
Titanic tourist submersible missing | Sub's debris found - crew "have been lost"
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To be fair that guy hasn't got a clue if it was safe or not, he just didnt enjoy it. Any deep sea sub is cramped as feck it doesn't mean they're all unsafe.
I think the resources are there to a good extent but its just a very vast area they're searching for and its a very small boat and that's without accounting for ocean currents potentially having made it drift even further away. The possibilities are endless and to find it within the 3-4 days isn't going to be easy.
From corner to corner, probably a 2.5 hour drive
And he's moaning about it now when he himself went twice.
https://nypost.com/2023/06/21/former-titanic-sub-passenger-dubs-dive-a-suicide-mission/
At this stage I think it is very unlikely that there is time for a successful outcome 
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At this stage I think it is very unlikely that there is time for a successful outcome
Awful. About 13 hours oxygen remaining.
Needs to be found in the next couple of hours.
Turns out the deepest sub rescue ever was in Ireland. Who knew? They were on the seabed for 84 hours.
And that was 1,500 ft down and this is 13,000 ft down.
The story of the Cork incident is amazing. A bar that locked the hatch wasn't working so maintenance removed it. Then someone attached the sub to the support boat using the outside hatch handle by mistake which promptly ripped the hatch off and they sank like a stone.
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The guy who was saved gave his account on BBC 5 live today. Fascinating!And that was 1,500 ft down and this is 13,000 ft down.
The story if the Cork incident is amazing. A bar that locked the hatch wasn't working so maintenance removed it. Then someone attached the sub to the support boat using the outside hatch handle by mistake which promptly ripped the hatch off and they sank like a stone.
And they only survived because he snuck an oxygen cylinder in which he wasn't supposed to! Great story and hopefully we hear similar stuff in this instance too of how some random incident saved all their lives. Granted, it looks extremely unlikely though right now.And that was 1,500 ft down and this is 13,000 ft down.
The story if the Cork incident is amazing. A bar that locked the hatch wasn't working so maintenance removed it. Then someone attached the sub to the support boat using the outside hatch handle by mistake which promptly ripped the hatch off and they sank like a stone.
circumvented Titanic’s remains twice on a single trip, not went twice.
Having seen more pictures and blueprints of the vessel it just seems like an awful experience. You couldn't pay me to get in that thing for 10 hours even if it was 100% guaranteed to be safe. Crazy that anyone actually dished out a quarter of a million dollars for it.
Paying a lot of money to put yourself in an underwater jail where you'll be looking at a human tragedy.
Would love to hear that, did you hear it live or is it on the internets somewhere?
Such a harrowing story. It's the last way I'd want to go out. Nuke the area and take me out fast please
Wouldn't be a good Irish story without a bar or a pub.And that was 1,500 ft down and this is 13,000 ft down.
The story if the Cork incident is amazing. A bar that locked the hatch wasn't working so maintenance removed it. Then someone attached the sub to the support boat using the outside hatch handle by mistake which promptly ripped the hatch off and they sank like a stone.
Have you heard of MH370? Multiple countries searched for years for an entire plane and they only ever found like 2% of it and mostly because it washed up somewhere. The ocean is fecking enormous and incredibly deep. To add to that, things move so an area you checked one day is essentially changed the next. All the resources in the world might not help them find it. It’s a tiny dot among billions and billions of dots.
Not to mention that Connecticut is about 13,000 sq kms, but essentially flat. This area is also 3.8kms deep. So nearly 50,000 km3.
Assuming that they were all alive for some of these days and distinctly aware of their impending fate, I hope they all do leave behind some final messages to help their families (and everyone else!?) understand what went down and what they were thinking right at the end. In the hope that the sub is eventually found some day.
Im sure they’re not just out there twiddling thumbs mate. They’ve got a shit load more knowledge and expertise than our guesses. I think it’s easy to simplify how challenging and difficult it is to navigate an ocean not only horizontally but vertically too. 2.5 miles in any direction is a long way.
It’s incredible they even find people willing to pay £200k to sit in a cramped position on the floor for 10 hours.
I have no clue how trustworthy the station is but:
The last time I was this gripped to a news story that was inconsequential to me was the Raoul Moat saga. Tried to find the caf thread for it but (like this one in a few days) it's been deleted.
We won't be hearing from the stepson again. He got banned from twitter for being a racist bellend.
Who are you trying to kid, you were terrified of running into Raoul.
Racist? A new string to his rather insane bow.
Something is mentally wrong with him. Will he be inheriting his stepdad's fortune?
You don't need an expert to tell you that the Oceangate submersible was just a glorified tin can.
The coastguard just said the areas was twice the size of Connecticut. So only 100,000km3 of water
Presumably a huge chunk is going to his Mum so he'll get it eventually whilst living off her in the meantime.
The Navy have a rescue system that has recovered things from much deeper but it needs to be welded to the deck of a ship which takes at least 24hrs and they don't have a ship yet,
https://edition.cnn.com/americas/li...e-06-21-23/h_21e88c04fe3c16bba7e309f721b0b16c
https://edition.cnn.com/americas/li...e-06-21-23/h_21e88c04fe3c16bba7e309f721b0b16c
Given that there are only ~9 hours of breathable air remaining, and rescue is looking hugely unlikely, I'm starting to hope that the loss of contact was due to the porthole blowing out. That death would have been near instant.
Obviously I'd rather they survived and be rescued, but if it's to be death, I can't imagine much of a worse way to go than in the cold, dark depths of the ocean waiting to run out of oxygen. Horrific.
Obviously I'd rather they survived and be rescued, but if it's to be death, I can't imagine much of a worse way to go than in the cold, dark depths of the ocean waiting to run out of oxygen. Horrific.
Only chance they've got now is if they're on the surface somehow and just need unbolting.
Deep sea diving medical expert on BBC saying they could extend their oxygen well beyond today if they have been breathing properly.
fecking hell cameron
Cameron got cojones of solid rock.
Used to ride a pedalo out at sea with me mates and we went to the surface of James Cameron's pit. The water looked just as dark as blue pen ink, and as thick as a sugary water then when we were taking photos and livestreaming to our mums, a Leviathan appeared. I was the fastest at steering pedalo leaving them behind to be eaten.
Cameron got cojones of solid rock.