News & Events Missing Titanic tourist submarine

[por_please_ya]

Sounds like he might not have wanted to be there which makes it all the more sad.

Ugh that's awful if he didn't want to go and was encouraged/forced by his Dad

 

[phantom13]

I doubt any on board knew it was a suicide mission.

Yeh this is true, it’s truly an odd situation with the general public reaction.

There’s definitely an element of “**** around and find out” like, I’m no expert but if I’d shelled out $250k and rolled up to find the Titan had an offbrad game controller, a viewing hole barely the size of my head and I was bolted into the thing I reckon I’d bail in a heartbeat, but these guys didn’t.

It’s all easy in hindsight but it’s a staggering set of circumstantial stupidity that led to it.

 

[Sqotty from office works]

Gross negligence can't be dismissed by signing a waiver.

Worked mountain climbing years ago and the company had a waiver.
The best legal brains(yes that's another story,)in America and England told us waivers are an unknown.
They've lost watertight cases and won pretty hopeless cases.
The opinion on waivers was simply "who knows "

 

[kaiserchief13]

Anyone know how many trips this sub made to Titanic?

 

[phantom13]

Worked mountain climbing years ago and the company had a waiver.
The best legal brains(yes that's another story,)in America and England told us waivers are an unknown.
They've lost watertight cases and won pretty hopeless cases.
The opinion on waivers was simply "who knows "

Yeh but the details we’ve read (which to be fair may turn out to be inaccurate) of the Titan are akin to sending people up Everest with no oxygen, a singlet and thongs, a couple of bits of twine and a pitchfork from bunnings.

If even half the stuff we’ve read is true it is GROSS negligence and they’ll be whacked for it.

 

[Kram]

 

[Bont2Bruce]

Anyone know how many trips this sub made to Titanic?

There were some attempts to launch a dive which were aborted while still at the surface due to weather concerns was all I read about.

 

[RU_]

Few of the twitter concerns are that the section with the crew has broken away from the back of the vessel and the landing gear and has just sunk. I’d like to believe the whole thing was crushed so it was over quickly.

 

[Moonwatcher]

Few of the twitter concerns are that the section with the crew has broken away from the back of the vessel and the landing gear and has just sunk. I’d like to believe the whole thing was crushed so it was over quickly.

Difficult for the landing gear to come off the crew cabin if the cabin was still in tact. The legs are bolted onto the cabin with two rings that go right around the cabin.

 

[cats_09]

If there's one lesson we've learnt over recent years - pay more attention to past Simpson episodes, especially the weirder ones which seem to somewhat predict future events:




The other somewhat freaky Simpsons connection

 

[Bluelegs]

I doubt any on board knew it was a suicide mission.

Yeah I doubt OceanGate gave them a full run down of the complaints and legal disputes over the vehicles safety issues.

 

[MatthewB]

This is an interesting thread that highlights what a suicide mission this trip was

thats a really good read

 

[Pakenhamsaint]

On a suicide mission like this wouldn't they have pretty much signed that they accept all the potential harms to the point of death?

Given the evidence of safety issues and whatnot the company is stuffed.

 

[peternorth]

Died doing what they loved

 

[Chief]

Just opened emails and The Conversation tells me:

The frantic countdown to find the lost Titan submersible in the North Atlantic before the crew’s oxygen stores run out has ticked down to zero, with the US Coast Guard confirming five major pieces of debris from the craft have been found near the Titanic wreck. Officials say the five crew on board were probably killed instantly in a “catastrophic implosion”.

 

[Chief]

If there's one lesson we've learnt over recent years - pay more attention to past Simpson episodes, especially the weirder ones which seem to somewhat predict future events:




The other somewhat freaky Simpsons connection

Have they been using this thing for a year or more?

 

[Moonwatcher]

Died doing what they loved

Not the kid

 

[BobbyMorri]

Two queries that I have here.

They’re saying the bodies might not be recovered, it’s morbid but would there actually be anything to recover? I imagine the pressure and rapid implosion wouldn’t leave much of the ship let alone a body?

There wouldnt be much letft. If they haven't turned into marine snow already from the pressure, they would be stripped to the bones, regardless if they floated or sunk. Creatures of the sea waste nothing.

Honestly, let them be. Burial at sea was a thing for thousands of years for sailors. like cremation, but in the sea.

 

[MP_]

This is an interesting thread that highlights what a suicide mission this trip was

Far out, makes you wonder if these "explorers" did any research of their own into the safety of what they were getting into. I would love to travel to space but there is no way in hell i would just rock up pay my money and away i go without being sure the thing was safe. Would love to know the legal ramifications of this, was there an authority that should have been overseeing the safety of this ? It is clear they have chosen not to do the required hull safety checks but how the hell is this allowed? So many questions need to be answered and i daresay the rich relatives of those deceased will be asking for them and already are because they are wondering why it took 8 hours for the coast guard to be contacted after contact was lost.

 

[MP_]

Died doing what they loved

they probably didn't even get to see titanic

 

[faible]

There wouldnt be much letft. If they haven't turned into marine snow already from the pressure, they would be stripped to the bones, regardless if they floated or sunk. Creatures of the sea waste nothing.

Honestly, let them be. Burial at sea was a thing for thousands of years for sailors. like cremation, but in the sea.

At that depth there's nothing of them left, the officials are just being delicate instead of saying 'they were instantly turned in to jelly'

 

[phantom13]

At that depth there's nothing of them left, the officials are just being delicate instead of saying 'they were instantly turned in to jelly'

That’s sort of what I was thinking.

 

[Bluelegs]

This is an interesting thread that highlights what a suicide mission this trip was

This part in particular is astounding.

 

[phantom13]

This part in particular is astounding.

I don’t blame the submarine as much as I blame deep water…

Yeh but mate, deep water isn’t sentient, it didn’t make a conscious decision to **** with your comms.

You know that shit is hairy 3m deep let alone 4kms deep. Work that shit out before you go and if you go and it doesn’t work the first time, fix it.

That’s right up there with one of the dumbest things I’ve ever read.

 

[MP_]

This part in particular is astounding.

there's just so many things that were wrong on that sub absolutely astounding that this incident hadn't occurred earlier