BREAKING: Submarine bound for Titanic goes missing: BBC reports

Somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean......at least they narrowed it down.

That's a thing you can do? I thought the site was considered a protected grave site?

How terrible. 111 years later there are more victims, maybe.

I cannot imagine going in any kind of a submarine. I can just barely stand being on an airplane. My claustrophobia would go nuts.

They've said for decades that ship is cursed.

That's one of my worst fears -- the thought of going to the site of the Titanic wreck (or anywhere that deep in the ocean, really) in a small submarine. I'd probably have a continuous panic attack thinking about the pressure of the water all around me.

R3

A n acquaintance of mine worked for NatGeo Magazine and went into/close to the Marianas Trench in one of those tiny, one person capsules that is connected by a few tubes and wires to a boat. I asked her how long it took to get to a point where she could see anything/how long was it pitch black and the answer was 45 minutes.

NFW.

Darwin at work.

I wonder how much something like this costs.

^ it says $250,000 in the BBC article but this site mentions $125,000....it's from a couple of years ago though

I hope they haven’t gotten stuck in the wreckage on the ship and caused even more of a collapse to the bow.

Just a thought, but perhaps they ought to finally leave the disintegrating grave of those poor souls the fuck alone?

One of our submarines... is missing... tonight.

Oh. They weren't even scientists but "tourists". Fuck them, then. Really. Fuck them.

Amazing that life has evolved to live in that environment.

Sounds like the stuff of nightmares.

Doubt this will have a happy ending but I hope to be proven wrong.

The Canadian Coast Guard told CBC News on Monday morning the search falls under the jurisdiction of the Boston Coast Guard. The American group confirmed a search is underway but provided no other details.

The wreck of the Titanic sits 370 nautical miles — about 680 kilometres — southeast of Newfoundland.

Submersible tours are offered by OceanGate Expeditions, a U.S.-based company with operations in Newfoundland. The tours cost about $250,000.

Those tours are a series of five eight-day missions to the Titanic with the money raised by tourists funding Titanic research. Posts on social media show the ship launched from the St. John's area last week.

im going to keep it real this is the most dead anyone has ever been

Loss of life or potential loss of life is terrible, but I'm finding it hard to dredge up sympathy for people who embark on such ventures for tourism's sake.

The waters of the North Atlantic are treacherous. This is a site of a disaster where over a thousand people lost their lives. Don't go there to satisfy your bucket list or prurient interest. It's akin to looking at a fatal car wreck.

That’s what they did with the Edmund Fitzgerald wreck r11 after some documentary filmmakers caught a body floating by on film. The families got together and got the area declared a grave.

I want to see a feel good comedy movie that helps people deal with death. Kinda like the aftermath reincarnation. People talk about the various ways they go and before they incarnate again and choose their life lessons and how they're going to go out.

Like an random guy is like, nah not heart attack. I already know what that's like. How about hang gliding. Their guide is like, are you sure? When you're down there it's not going to make sense. A round table of guides discuss if it will contribute to the evolution of humanity. Their soul advocate is like well see, safety measures will come out of it.

But tackling the more heinous ways to go and how it makes sense would be difficult.

This reminds me of that plane with the golfer on it. So creepy.

R5 I would beg the operator to go back to the surface, and get me out of there. I think I would even fake a heart attack. It would be very, very bad.

A while back, due to an accident, the train to Long Beach from LA was shut down. I waited for the bus to take us to the next open station forever, and not thinking, piled onto the bus, which was way overcrowded. I started having a claustrophobic panic attack. I tried to deal with it silently for about ten minutes, but we were stuck in traffic and not moving. I asked the bus drive to let me out. He refused. I asked him maybe 5 times, no dice. So, I broke the glass, turned the level, and walked out myself.

Why do people like R7 have to mince here to post things like "Dawin at work"? What's Darwinian about this? Humans wanting to explore? Trusting in technology and ability that's been around a long time to experience something? Their wanting to learn about something and having the desire and ability to actually go to a faraway place they've read and learned about to understand and experience it? Would it be "Darwin at work" if R7 falls off the Tea Cup ride on one of his frequent visits to the Disney Pride parade? Why do these people who may be suffering as we type, deserve "the Darwin Award" from R7?

If only they would have stayed home and watched Drag Race & Sean Cody videos like the erudite R7, they would have been better off I suppose.

This thread is sending me down a Titanic rabbit hole. I have a mild crush on this cute ocean liner history nerd.

R23, They weren't "exploring" and doing scientific research.

[quote]I can just barely stand being on an airplane.

Next time, r3, try being *in* one.

Well they were exploring, r25.

4,000 meters - depth of the titanic.

Maximum depth of a manned military submarine - certain maybe to 500m.

I don't understand this event described.

Manned tourist submarine can descend to the titanic?

If I had unlimited money, I would like to tour the ship as it’s been an obsession of mine since I was a little boy. Calling these people stupid tourists is ignorant as they may have had a genuine scientific curiosity.

Ballard's search for Titanic was only the cover story for his true mission. Location of and filming of two destroyed US nuclear submarines. And now a third submarine.

Horrible way to go, you know it's coming.

It had a nice hull, but it couldn’t remain intact and full of breathable gases forever.

What we could do in the future is wear VR for dangerous exploration experiences. We can have the VR controller be placed on an Android and explore that way.

That way if something happens, only equipment is compromised.

[quote]R23, They weren't "exploring" and doing scientific research.

So the fuck WHAT, r25? You're going to snark their dire situation immediately, without even waiting to know if they're dead, or suffered while dying, or were saved, just because YOU want to feel better than them? It's one thing to have those types of threads when we've heard about something that's already happened. Maybe. It's quite another when you're taking a live situation and "awarding" them as somehow idiots for being trapped 2.5 miles under the ocean because they wanted to see an old shipwreck. They weren't harming anything, and weren't polluting the ocean. They weren't having anyone pay for it, or harming anyone or anything.

So again, illuminate us on your take of these "Dariwn award willing", likely suffocating people. Go hard, give it everything you've got. Let's see just how brutal you can be. Tell us how stupid and deserving of their fate they are and just get it out. I'm sure you'll feel much better.

An Unforgettable Experience! The Journey of a Lifetime!"

Go Down to the Titanic!!!

R25/R33 MUST control the horizontal and the vertical, because SHE HAS A DOG AND LOVES PEOPLE!!!

Except when she doesn't;

BREAKING: Submarine bound for Titanic goes missing: BBC reports Why do people like R7 have to mince here to post things like "Dawin at work"? What's Darwinian about this? Humans wanting to explore? Trusting in technology and ability that's been around a long time to experience something? Their wanting to learn about something and having the desire and ability to actually go to a faraway place they've read and learned about to understand and experience it? Would it be "Darwin at work" if R7 falls off the Tea Cup ride on one of his frequent visits to the Disney Pride parade? Why do these people who may be suffering as we type, deserve "the Darwin Award" from R7?

If only they would have stayed home and watched Drag Race & Sean Cody videos like the erudite R7, they would have been better off I suppose.

BREAKING: Submarine bound for Titanic goes missing: BBC reports [quote]R23, They weren't "exploring" and doing scientific research.

So the fuck WHAT, r25? You're going to snark their dire situation immediately, without even waiting to know if they're dead, or suffered while dying, or were saved, just because YOU want to feel better than them? It's one thing to have those types of threads when we've heard about something that's already happened. Maybe. It's quite another when you're taking a live situation and "awarding" them as somehow idiots for being trapped 2.5 miles under the ocean because they wanted to see an old shipwreck. They weren't harming anything, and weren't polluting the ocean. They weren't having anyone pay for it, or harming anyone or anything.

So again, illuminate us on your take of these "Dariwn award willing", likely suffocating people. Go hard, give it everything you've got. Let's see just how brutal you can be. Tell us how stupid and deserving of their fate they are and just get it out. I'm sure you'll feel much better.

Pet Grief OP, I'm thinking of you this morning. I can imagine my pain when my little sweetheart leaves me. There's nothing to type that can make you feel better, but I am so sorry for your deep loss, and I'm so sorry you're hurting. I hope the grief eases soon OP, I really do. XO

Penn professor caught fucking his collie in a public restroom Can somebody tell me how this might work, fucking a poor dog? Is the dog tied down? Is the dog typically open to the situation? How does a guy put it dick inside of a squirming or yelping dog? It's just so fucked up on so many levels but I find myself wondering how it actually happens.... OR, is it more just the staging etc. and the human is basically just dry-humping the dog's hole or something, I don't get how a man can technically have penetration with a dog. MAYBE a male dog can manage to get it's red rocket into a human female but even that would rely and depend upon so much..

OMG, I don't even know why I'm asking this. Sorry. I feel bad for the poor innocent animal who now thinks that humans are going to be trying to fuck her all the time. She's probably messed up for life.

Penn professor caught fucking his collie in a public restroom Yeah R82? Maybe, but they're still white, and you're still... Well, you know.

Good luck with that cunt.

Bill Gates doing more shady shit with the Chinese Why does he get a pass for being so fucking evil?

Who does some troll keep posting threads asking various questions of “Greg” Is this the new “Josh” troll, who tries to create buzz for his online persona? ENOUGH already.

Spirits of the poor 1500 souls who perished on Titanic may have finally said enough to their rest being disturbed, and are sending a message.

🙄😳 what the fuck is going on here?

Lmao, r31

That's a terrifying way to go

Tee-Hee

High Five, Atlantic

R36 lol yeh that's it

[R32] Dr. Ballard is a proponent of your suggestion. Aside from disliking the idea of tourist dives to what he considers a grave site, he talks about how much more can be explored if scientists didn’t have to waste so many hours on descending and ascending.

R23 I agree. Nothing but sympathy for these souls, and hope that they can be rescued. Anything less and you must be a damaged person, in some way.

Have we ruled out the orcas?

R9, good thing they got 50% off on Groupon!

Remember that movie Ghost? That was a great movie. I liked seeing people going on after death

Titanic heaven was sweet too.

City of Angels. We need more dealing with death movies.

Gross

We need more making sense of life and death movies.

I don't like people visiting the wreck as I consider it a grave site. Just let those poor souls rest already. However, now there's a submarine with people missing. I obviously hope they are ok. I don't want anyone to die, even if I disagree with them going down there in the first place.

I already have a terrible fear of being trapped, no way I would so something like this voluntarily

Ew, no thanks. Creepy as hell. Nothing good can come from that haunted heap.

Also, if I had this much money, I can think of way better ways to waste it

Has Celine Dion issued a statement?

The iceberg strikes again!!!

[quote] I can just barely stand being on an airplane.

[quote] Next time, [R3], try being *in* one.

R26, wrong. This was R3.

This sounds like a great idea for a “Titanic” sequel. For the last 25 years, people have called for a sequel, yet no one knew how to do it. Now we know. It’s too bad Bill Paxton is dead. A submarine sequel would have likely involved his character.

I personally would never choose to take a trip in a small submarine into the deepest depths of the sea to visit a shipwreck or anything else. The thought of being so confined and at risk is horrifying.

If someone else wants to do that it's their choice. They have to live, or not, with the consequences.

I don't get the disapproval of visiting a gravesite, though. People do that all the time at archeological sites like pyramids and other ancient graves. The plunder of tombs and death sites are on display all around the world. How many of us have seen King Tut's bounty or the spoils of other graves? Humans are curious and death is mystifying. Respect and caution are at the top of mind as we search to learn, conquer, and loot. We're gobble up earth's treasures at a dangerous rate to satisfy our every need.

R55, yes, she said her heart will go on.

R59 again, error in the last sentence, "Respect and caution are often NOT at the top of mind . . . "

[R58] Have you seen Ghosts of the Abyss?

James Cameron documentary about diving to the wreck with Bill Paxton along for the ride. Paxton is openly and unashamedly terrified.

Here's an image that helps illustrate the depths we are talking about here. By no means was this a low risk excursion. Shudder.

Even if everyone is alive, raising a dead submersible from 2.5 miles deep is a Herculean task.

What a nightmare

Will the tour price will go to 350 grand now that it includes a second gravesite?

R65, are you kidding? It's a bonus fee -- it's part of the immersive experience!

hoping ELon Musk, Trump and the Walton family are all onboard!!

What an oddly specific fear, R5.

This is what happens when you have too much money

Why don't they raise it up if people wanna go look at it. Not like it's doing anything on the ocean floor. How much could it possibly cost to raise? $1,000,000?

I really hope you're not that stupid, R70.

They should raise it and put it on a type of manmade island like the ones in Dubai.

Turn it into a hotel.

Why not a theme park where rich fraus pretend to be Kate Winslet from the movie? The park can hire Leo lookalikes to sweep them off their feet and die in the pool, confessing their love for them.

They'd make the money back it would take to scavenge it from the depths, within three years.

You're going to die no matter what.

They've ID'd one guy already.

Gilligan's Air Pocket, coming to CBS this Fall

Will Elon send his submarine down to rescue them?

It’s the inverse Mt Everest, without sherpas.

They signed up for the Titanic Total Experience.

Here’s a video showing what it’s like on that submersible. It’s just a tube-shaped thing, so small that you have to crouch down, and the trip takes 12 hours!! The only amenity is a toilet at one end of the tube.

What a horrific way to die.

OMG, R81. I'm having a panic attack just watching that.

r26 thinks she's so clever

TWELVE HOURS!?!/1??

R23 "Trusting in technology and ability that's been around a long time to experience something? "

The article said the submarine was launched last week.

That's not a long time.

The passengers were probably all uber-wealthy, what with those astronomical tour price. Might it have been sabotaged?

What was on their iPods?

[quote]Spirits of the poor 1500 souls who perished on Titanic may have finally said enough to their rest being disturbed, and are sending a message.

^^but what about the guardian angels of the submarine passengers? Couldn't they have fought with the souls of the Titanic victims in a battle to save their lives? In any event, we should send our thoughts and prayers to the invisible man who lives in the sky so a miracle can happen.

r88

I remember years ago in Denver one of the radio stations had a contest where the winner got to go down to see the Titanic. My husband knew I was a huge Titanic nut,so he signed up for the contest. I was all "Oh HELL no !" He was shocked as I was the daredevil of the 2 of us but even the thought of going that far down horrified me.

No, R89, because the souls of the Titanic victims also have their own guardian angels, so the guardian angels of the people on the submarine were out numbered. This was explained in the Lord of the Rings.

Setting aside the stupidity of having tourist trips down to the Titanic, I wonder if they should even be doing any more scientific research. What else is there to learn about what happened? The damn thing sunk and people died. They've already pulled out a bunch of dishes and other artifacts to display. Seems like any more research is just a boondoggle. Let it just be a gravesite and not be disturbed any more IMO.

R90

Subs don’t go missing. Something happened but the communication should still be reported up until to time of trauma. Subs are the safest vessels there are. But any major catastrophe is imminent death. Perhaps they all escaped from the shuttle in time. It’s not the water that is the hazard, it’s the pressure of going up closer to surface so rapidly. May cause one’s head to explode. Haven’t read all the comments yet perhaps some update or missing info.

This says Oceangate's first Titanic expedition was two years ago.

One of my real life nightmares. This, elevators, and helicopters all meeting gruesome ends.

If something happened, I sure hope it was painless and without awareness.

The sub is too small and the ocean is too big.

[quote] This was explained in the Lord of the Rings.

I heard the sub tried to get all the way to the bottom because a billionaire named Dèagol saw a ring lying on the ocean floor.

I'm going straight to hell for laughing my ass off @ r80

It was the one ring, R99.

Just watch the Canadian Ministry of Health turn this into a great idea.

"Family Suicide Pods".

There’s only one word to describe this: sequel!!

Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale,

A tale of a fateful trip

That started from this tropic port

Aboard this tiny ship.

The mate was a mighty sailing man,

The skipper brave and sure.

Four passengers set sail that day

For a twelve hour cruise

[quote]It’s the inverse Mt Everest, without sherpas.

That’s it? That doesn’t seem that bad since you could walk Everest. So if there wasn’t water you could walk the distance to the Titanic too.

Did ii miss it? Did they say how many people are in the vessel or don't they know?

OMG r81 that's like being in a tin can. Imagine going 2.4 miles deep into the Atlantic in that thing. No thank you!

What kind of scientific research could be done? This is one of the best known and well chronicled events in the 20th century. I'm a historian and there seems to be as much value in research here as you get from one of those idiot tv presidential historians.

What do you think is happening in the submarine right this second? Do the people know they’re in trouble? Are they panicking? Did they pack enough food or will they eventually turn to eating each other if they stay down there long enough?

How much oxygen do they have?

96 hours of oxygen, r110.

An entire class of science students are trapped in that sub!

You could extend the oxygen supply by making the weaker ones "walk the plank".

Check out 2:43 at the video on r81."an experimental vessel that has not been approved or certified by any regulatory body and could result in physical injury, disability, trauma or death."

It holds five people, R106.

R109, nothing is going on in the vessel - they're all dead.

The sub has capsized, now they'll have to work their way to the bottom to escape, by going UP! Oh GOD!

There are sunken cities and emperor’s pleasure boats to explore right off the coast of the Mediterranean. No need for all this nonsense

Celine has issued a statement: "There are people still there- waiting to be rescued!"

R96 Maybe they have more than one one?

OP's BBC article states "Those tours are a series of five eight-day missions to the Titanic with the money raised by tourists going toward Titanic research. [bold]Posts on social media show the ship launched from the St. John's area last week.[/bold]

Why are they “researching” the Titanic? Trying to find out why it sunk?

That stupid old bitch threw the diamond into the ocean! Someone should've shoved her overboard right then and let her be shark bait!

What the hell is Titanic research? lmao

Everything was fine until someone opened the hatch to step outside for a smoke.

R88

HELLISH:

"David Concannon, an adviser to the company, said Oceangate lost contact with the sub Sunday morning. It had a 96-hour oxygen supply, he said in an email to The Associated Press on Monday afternoon. “Now 32 hours since sub left surface,” said Concannon, who said he was supposed to be on the dive but could not go due to another client matter. He said officials are working to get a remotely operated vehicle that can reach a depth of 6,000 meters (about 20,000 feet) to the site as soon as possible...

...Every attempt is being made for a rescue mission. There is still plenty of time to facilitate a rescue mission, there is equipment on board for survival in this event,” Butler said. “We’re all hoping and praying he comes back safe and sound.”

Was it the ghost of Shelly Winters that did it?

I swear I’m getting claustrophobic anxiety just thinking of this.

I wonder if they’ll ever find them

Has Celine Dion been notified yet?

They have a few days of oxygen left but what about food? Are they going to starve?

Several times.

I would be so pissed if I was Boston Coast Guard and had to go risk my life for that shit.

R129 People don't starve to death in four days. Dumbasses do "intermittent fasting" for longer than that.

I was on a submarine once and it was claustrophobic. When I saw the giant squid and mermaids I freaked out.

[quote]I was on a submarine once and it was claustrophobic. When I saw the giant squid and mermaids I freaked out.

Was this at DisneyLand?

I can't believe they're still alive at this point.

R88

in terms of catastrophe is this any different than a plane crash? No matter what we do in life everything has it's risks.

Hopefully whales will assist in the rescue.

How many hours of oxygen can they gain if they just kill one of them right now?

I suspect they'd prefer less oxygen rather than putrefying smells.

It’s like Lord of the Floes in that sub right now.

r139 is posting from inside the sub!!

How many hours of O2 left now? ...tick tock...

[quote]Hopefully whales will assist in the rescue.

Whales can't do it. This is a job for Aquaman.

"I cannot imagine going in any kind of a submarine. I can just barely stand being on an airplane. My claustrophobia would go nuts."

At least in an airplane, if it's not cloudy, you can see the expanse around you. So you're in a tube essentially in the open. In a submarine you're in a tube, underwater, with nothing to see generally.

Maybe they'll encounter the The Abyss creature!

R106 it’s been confirmed 5 were aboard.

Have they called in MacGyver?

The new Mt. Everest.

Also on board are Titanic wreck diver Paul-Henri Nargeolet and OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush.

Weeki Watchee R134

Good thing Whoopi wasn't on board!

The people running this tacky tourist business are sketchy. One of their subs went down last year and it went missing but then was recovered to the surface. It never found the Titanic. The people who paid up to 250K each were offered a "do over". I assume some of them are now on this craft that went missing again.

Calling it a "submarine" is a joke. It's a tank.

Find My Phone is useless.

I'm guessing Elon Musk runs this submarine outfit.

You thought Anne Frank was annoyed with the people in her limited confines.

Was William Shatner on board?

Fun fact: The Titanic was an insatiable bottom.

You'd think if they lost power and communications, they could manually inflate some balloons that would raise the craft to the surface slowly. Maybe they crashed into the wreck and are now hopelessly entangled forever, In that case, hope someone brought a small bottle of fine scotch to have a last toast.

"Has Celine Dion issued a statement?"

Yes. She prayed for the victims and their families and a positive end to this terrible situation. She added that no matter what happens, her heart and the hearts of thousands of well-wishers WILL go on.

[quote] You'd think if they lost power and communications, they could manually inflate some balloons that would raise the craft to the surface slowly.

That was the plot of Airport '77. Is Olivia de Haviland trapped down there?

Maybe the submarine will encounter and rescue Cameron, the high school hottie.

Manny! MANNY!

[quote] Whales can't do it. This

Chris Christie has graciously offered his services and plans an ocean floor dive tomorrow morning!

Someone should ask Trump how he'd solve this problem.

"What was on their iPods?"

Under Pressure by Queen and David Bowie.

How many random tragedies are we going to post today?

R165, Actually, he has requested a lifetime supply of M&Ms.

Nine

[quote] Who does some troll keep posting threads asking various questions of “Greg” Is this the new “Josh” troll, who tries to create buzz for his online persona? ENOUGH already.

R35: I am not a troll.

I am not Josh.

Please be quiet.

Did Pamela Sue Martin wear her tearaway skirt with hot pants underneath? That'll come in handy when she has to climb up the Christmas tree.

You just know Lee Grant is on board, slugging back those teeny tiny bottles of booze and going apeshit.

"Someone should ask Trump how he'd solve this problem."

"I'm not saying the submarine is fat, but it's very fat. Also a lesbian, which..." (spreads fingers wide) "...I don't care."

Randy Rainbow is working on a parody as we speak.

Where’s Lloyd Bridges when we need him?

[quote]It’s like Lord of the Floes in that sub right now.

Kiss my grits!

Sorry if anyone made the comment...."While they are down there, can they find me the Heart of the Ocean that stupid old Bitch threw back into the water". And how about looking for the real jewelry while they are there at the bottom of the Atlantic. Maybe some Titantic 1st class dinner service -silverware too

Is there a rudder or flotation device they could employ to bring the sub to the surface?

This is a job for Flipper.

Open the hatch and swim like a motherfucker!!!

I wonder if Sally Fields has PTSD from being in Beyond the Poseidon Adventure

R182, Or from being in “80 for Brady”.

OP, you bitch!

Thoughts and prayers!

[quote] r182: Sally Fields

Oh, dear.

If they found Nemo, they can find a submarine.

They have become lodged in the Tunnel of Goats....

I HOPE their is a man who is "Hot and sexy". Because if I'm gonna die, I want some cock...get sucked off.

Or stare at someone who looks good!!

And the Blue Meanies claim another quintet.

Just saw on MSNB an expert said there are 3 options

1) they deployed a flotation device and bobbing on the ocean (with no communication equipment working)

2) They are stuck on something or the Titanic wreckage and can’t pull loose

3) there was a failure with the ship’s shell. In that case no hope of finding them alive

This guy must be the captain.

If they could at least give us one ping. One ping only.

We had an aircraft fly overhead recently that was on autopilot and it turned to make the sppproach to the airport and just kept going til it ran out of gas and crashed. Air Force said it was depressurization and that you have about 30 seconds before you pass out.

If they were on the surface, a battery-powered satellite device on board would have sent their location already to rescuers. They are either crushed on the ocean floor or entangled in the Titanic wreckage.

Or being digested in a big whale.

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Oh, Smitty! You always crack me up!

Buh-Bye

[quote]If they could at least give us one ping. One ping only.

PING

CBC reports famed French diver is on board.

How long until Elon Musk calls all of the people involved with the rescue mission pedophiles?

R201 At least each of those men sounds like they'd know how to handle themselves in this emergency.

Imagine the mixed emotions of the heirs.

$250,000 to die in a tin can? Ugh, rich people.

So my post at R192 was correct, R201. Sad for PH and his family.

They're not dead yet, R206.

Billionaire Hamish Harding is reportedly one of the five people on board the missing submarine that was meant to take tourists down to see the Titanic’s shipwreck.

Harding, the chairman of global sales company Action Aviation, was sharing posts on Instagram and Twitter about his voyage over the weekend. On Sunday, he announced he was joining Oceangate Expeditions (the company operating the tours) for their RMS Titanic Mission as a mission specialist.

Here's what PH said - he's quoted in the Fail article.

[quote] Paul Henri Nargeolet, 77, is a former Commander in the French Navy who is hailed as a world-leading expert on the Titanic wreckage.

[quote] In 2019, he spoke frankly about the risks of leading missions to the site, which is 12,500ft - 2.5 miles - underwater around 370 miles from Newfoundland.

[quote] 'If you are 11 [miles] or 11km down, if something bad happens, the result is the same. When you're in very deep water, you're dead before you realize that something is happening, so it's just not a problem.'

Summary

A submersible that takes tourists to the Titanic shipwreck is missing off the North American coast in the Atlantic

It lost contact an hour and 45 minutes into a dive towards the Titanic wreck, according to the US Coast Guard

The vessel - with five onboard - began its dive on Sunday morning

According to its operator, the vessel has "life support" for 96 hours

One of those believed to be on board is British businessman and explorer Hamish Harding

The wreck sits about 3,800m (12,500ft) below sea level at the bottom of the ocean

It is located about 600km (370 miles) off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada

Thank you, Miss Shuster.

Maybe a whale beat its ass.

Do they have Netflix?

Hulu. But basic tier with commercials.

Accordingly to the Daily Mail they think they found it in the Titanic’s wreckage. It has 60hrs of air left.

I hope they're found alive but it doesn't exactly sound promising. Imagine if the submarine really is entangled in the wreckage, and Titanic has taken down another vessel 111 years after sinking. As if that site wasn't haunted enough...

If Irwin Allen were alive, he would have already purchased the rights to this.

Fools, the lot of them.

I can hold my breath for 106 hours and I have many gay friends.

At least the NYT finally has the correct vocabulary. IT IS NOT A SUBMARINE.

We all live in a yellow submarine. We all die in a non-yellow non-submarine.

I hope they make it out so I can reboot my career!

Any confirmation that they found it?

The French Navy DILF passenger looks like James Cameron.

SOOOOO OP or GREG, my new OVERLORD. There is no hot sailors or Navy guys down there 20,000 leagues under the sea.

Is that where my 2 "XL" Die in a Grease Fire T-shirts are located? Where's Aquaman at?

Did they find jewelry down there?

If it imploded, then the sub and the people inside it were annihilated and turned into gelatinous particles.

[quote]Accordingly to the Daily Mail they think they found it in the Titanic’s wreckage. It has 60hrs of air left.

I'd be screaming like a crazy woman and using that air up a lot faster.

And I'd kill you, R227, if I was on the thing with you.

[quote]were annihilated and turned into gelatinous particles.

I hAte when that happens.

The only logical thing I can think of is a sea mountain which is extremely rare. Also it would have to be a sea mountain that went undetected also rare for todays technology on a sub. Though subs can redirect their trajectory much faster and fluidly than a 1920s surface cruise liner perhaps it was too late and they didn’t have enough time. The irony of life.

Maybe it hit an iceberg.

Lochness...

Subs rely on sonar not vision for avoiding collision which makes the occurrence of hitting a sea mountain even less likely.

It is not a sub.

[quote]sea mountain

What'd you call me?

At this point, the Daily Mail piece saying it’s entangled in wreck is pure speculation.

Here’s my hypothetical question;

If they find the submarine, and it’s indeed caught up in the titanic wreckage, and there is absolutely no way they can free it before oxygen runs out, is there any way to get the people out? I’m guessing they can’t just open the door and let them swim out and give them respirators. So I wonder what can be done if that’s the case. It would be even more horrific if that’s the case, and they just have to sit there and wait to die.

Do they have an " Edit button" at the bottom of the ocean? Please tell Aquaman to bring it up!

OP you should be less misleading with your title. This isn’t a submarine. These folks are dead and gone. RIP.

Put a really really really long pipe down in the water and they can climb up.

Well Miss, R239, that's what they were calling it when the news first broke of a missing vessel.

The CEO of the dive company who is among the missing is interviewed in the video at R81.

R224 PH is a cute kindly looking scholarly grandpa. He's 77 according to the DM article. I think he's the expedition leader, being the most knowledgeable one there.

I think it malfunctioned, drifted off and is long gone. They said they lost contact 1 hour and 45 minutes into the trip.

Tours cost about $250,000

First Class problems

Emergency underwater elevator service requested.

I'm rooting for DEATH....YEA DEATH!!

Revenge of the Stewed Prunes& The Swan.

Hopefully there is a Gay passenger who can service all the other men as a final gesture.

With Paul Henri Nargeolet...

Who was the skipper too...

The billionaire (but not his wife)

And someone else

Plus a rich tool

Some other fool

Here on Paul Henri Nargeolet's non-functioning submersible!

You're safer going up into space than you are into the ocean.

Paging Shelley Winters!

R248 why wouldn’t a woman do. Because a head is a head right.

R237 absolutely not. Even a microscopic tear in the submersible would cause an implosion much less opening the hatch to onboard another craft no matter how water tight.

Good guess, R237. Ya dope.

[quote]At this point, the Daily Mail piece saying it’s entangled in wreck is pure speculation.

*On this point and every point, the Daily Mail is pure speculation.*

R237, the deepest the US Navy can rescue people from a sub using a specialized diving submersible is 2000 feet down. The Titanic is at 12,500 feet down. The pressures are enormous, there's no way they could "open a door."

So this is pretty much Gillian’s Island if the skipper were marooned with 4 Thurston Howell’s.

R252 Find me the woman on this planet who would be stupid enough to get into that bathtub.

Even MTG would be like "Nuh-uh."

R257 and they were stuck in a tin can and then died horribly.

Why is gay R237 so stupid?

I agree, R243. He's kind of hot.

They’ve been tempting fate for years by diving down to the Titanic shipwreck.

Gillian's Island is the reboot you bitches have all been waiting for!

He better have a Big Dick cause he's OLDE!!

Where is Gene Hackman to say a prayer!!

This thread could use some cheering up.

Followed by this, R167:

Is the missing submarine anything like Beebe's Bathysphere?

Calling it now: these people and this submersible will never be seen again.

To R268, Can I have their stuff?

Thank You, Phillywhore

They might never find it. If the sub has no power, then it has no gps. The coast guard is looking for a needle in a haystack

Ooooh, r268, Impressive.

Tell me, will death and taxes go on?

How horrible, I hope everyone is fine.

R13 = psychopath

The Daily Mail is so ghetto. These people were probably rescued and are safe and sound.

I wonder if the shark which ate Cameron got these passengers ?

Some of you are so miserable you can’t grasp that this would be an exciting adventure for many. R13 is probably not a sociopath just a typical DL hater. Tourists shouldn’t do that because I don’t have the money to do so or that doesn’t interest me.

R274 Only if the integrity of the sub was compromised which in that case they were dead before the sharkie had its lunch. There are so many incorrect details I am inclined not to believe anything from the source.

If you had $250k that you had to use for travel, exploration, etc. - what would you do? Most people, I assume, would spread the wealth around and visit many places. But do any of you have a dream expedition like this Titanic voyage that would eat up all or most of the 250k?

R265, And then . . .

[quote]If you had $250k that you had to use for travel, exploration, etc. - what would you do? Most people, I assume, would spread the wealth around and visit many places. But do any of you have a dream expedition like this Titanic voyage that would eat up all or most of the 250k?

Not even if I were a billionaire, r277

You actually couldn’t pay me $250K to ride in a tin can to the deep ocean. I’m afraid of dying and claustrophobic.

It seems like a very dangerous thrill. Even more dangerous than space tourism because there isn't the huge fortune invested in the technology, which seems rinky dinky to me.

A reporter from CBS who was on it last year said it got lost for a couple of hours when he was on it. It seems very imprecise.

Pray for the rich white people. It’s always sad when millionaires are no longer here to enjoy their mansions and tax breaks.

The one guy was a billionaire.

Oh please tell me Harry and Megan were on board..

R280, I began to feel claustrophobic during a pelvic MRI last month.

Submerged in a vessel would be out of the question.

We probable have to wait for a whale to shit them out…

R283 Rich white people are the reason innovation happens you feeble minded dolt.

OP also never mislead again or there will be punishment. Do you understand?

[bold]BEARKING NEWS[/bold]

Missing Submersible Vessel Believed To Have Struck Sea Cow

[quote] Rich white people are the reason innovation happens you feeble minded dolt.

And yet they are so fucking obnoxious that we still hate them.

The Titanic curse continues!

I don’t hate anyone except racist white cunts. Even homophobic gays I don’t hate. This is such a dope exploration and really shows the ingenuity of mankind. I hope somehow someway a miracle happened.

Well, this can’t be good for business.

A miracle r293? It’s called science.

Can you imagine the movie if they were somehow rescued?

How many hours of oxygen do they have left now?

R291 not more ab nauseous than anyone else. You can find any rice, any rice and always find good and bad styrofoam types.

R285, if Harry and Meghan were on board, the other passengers would have kamikazed the sub directly into the Titanic

Has James Cameron commented yet?

JUST SAYING-----They can only survive 96 hours-----But if they start killing each other NOW----those left can possibly extend their chances...

Any updates?

R297, according to this article, somewhere between 70 to 96 hours:

[quote]The vessel was designed to hold 96 hours of emergency oxygen in the event of a calamity, Coast Guard Rear Admiral John Mauger said Monday at a news conference. “We anticipate that there’s somewhere between 70 to the full 96 hours available at this point," said Mauger. “We’re using that time, making the best use of every moment of that time, to locate the vessel.”

[quote]On Sunday, he announced he was joining Oceangate Expeditions (the company operating the tours) for their RMS Titanic Mission as a mission specialist.

A "mission specialist?" It's a fucking tin can with a propeller!

[quote]Maybe it hit an iceberg.

Isn't it ironic, don't ya think?

I'm stiff!

I wonder if they keep asking “are we there yet?”

In the event of an emergency, I’d hate anything dreadful to happen, such as stumbling in the dark into a second-class lifeboat.

What was on their waterproof iPod?

“Crush on You” perhaps?

To R278.....Thanks for posting that version, even though you made me cry!!

That is the only version of that song that destroys me. The Gay chorus version doesn't push the emotional buttons that the simple elegant version you posted.

Thanks OP!!

Why did the Boston Coast Guard get involved? Doesn't Canada have its own?

If the vehicle is punctured, does it collapse like a stomped soda can?

[quote]not more ab nauseous than anyone else. You can find any rice, any rice and always find good and bad styrofoam types.

styrofoam rice?

The French guy is hot. Too hot to die in a can on the ocean floor.

[quote]Oh please tell me Harry and Megan were on board.

You Klan Grannies are relentless, I'll give you that. There isn't a thread you won't invade.

The version of "Nearer, my God, to Thee" that the band played as Titanic was sinking was probably actually the British version:

R76, if only certain American billionaires had been on board...

I truly wonder what happened down there. I hope they didn’t decide to sniff coke laced with fentanyl.

The Boston (1st District) Coast Guard covers areas up to 1,300 miles off the Atlantic coast; the Titanic sunk about 1,000 miles from Boston. OceanGate is based in Washington state; they hired the Canadian research ship Polar Prince to take their submersible and its passengers from St. John's to the dive site. The U.S. Coast Guard has led the search operation, with assistance from the Canadian Coast Guard.

R315 The thing is the Harry/Meg hate us so strong is not just limited to klan grannies. Many fraus and regular gays hate them on here. When I DO sometimes go to those threads I know it’s a klan granny from the language being used.

R319 Thanks. Succinct and informative. 👍

In the water, they're very skinny fellows!

This is truly fascinating. I hope somehow they survived what ever has caused this disturbance.

IF anyone is still alive, and IF the submarine is found disabled on the bottom... is it physically possible to rescue inside? Are there deep-sea submersibles that could haul a disabled ship to the surface? There there cables long enough and winches strong enough to haul one up to a ship?

Seriously, if anyone is still alive, they may be fucked no matter what's done.

There is a live star studded "SAVE THE SUB' telethon online right now !!!!

Stiff Person Celine Dion sang My Heart Will Go On!!!!!!!!

When she did the chest pounding part at the end, she broke in half!!!!

Then Stevie Nicks came out, sang Stand Back, kicked cohost Webster's Emanuel Lewis in the cunt!!!

R5, traumatized on the submarine ride at Disneyland.

You know what I want to happen? I want James Cameron himself to fly in and bring all his deep-sea diving equipment along and put it at the disposal of the rescue team! That's his hobby, deep-sea diving in these submersibles, and he might actually be the person with the most money, equipment, and expertise of anyone in the deep-sea diving field.

And it's his fault that the wreck is popular anyway.

R324 That thought crossed my mind too. Has any vessel entered the Titanic wreckage yet. The Boston coast has this at will? A submarine or submersible technology that can go that deep.

I misread it the Coast Guard. They don’t have submarines just at bay. They are doing a superficial search of the surface. I guess the logic is no one that have survived and are still down there.

Where is James Cameron!? He wrote Titanic just so he could go down and look at the ship. Get down there James! Track them!

They're going to find them dead and the sub exploded.

Maybe they'll find the necklace that the old lady threw into the ocean!

Maudlin gouls !

The estates of the billionaires on board ought to be sparing no expense in paying for rescue missions from private companies.

You would think the militaries could get involved. Get a tactical team on it now!

R333 Excellent point. The people on board have the resources for deep sea extraction.

Some speculate one of the riders may have pulled a Cameron Robbins.

Was the "whistleblower" on board?

R237 you tow it back to the top?

Who would voluntarily get into a 21 foot long tube and go underwater 2 MILES below the surface?? Let alone pay $250,000 for the experience. Terrifying.

The Titanic is a graveyard. Only rich white people would turn it into a tourist attraction...

More money than brains.

R338, if rich fuckers will pay six figures to climb over corpses and frozen shit to summit Everest, then yes. There will be a market to see a shipwreck full of corpses 12,000 feet down.

[quote]The estates of the billionaires on board ought to be sparing no expense in paying for rescue missions from private companies.

Wonder if they’re doing anything at all and just waiting for the outcome. So, it was the UK billionaire, the French expert and OceanGates founder?

R340 knows my dad?

Graveyard,smaveyard ! Its a fucking wreck site,and any trace of a body has long since disappeared. I say loot that thing till theres nothing left. Why is it okay to dig up 1000 year old graves in the name of archeology but its desecration if its something like the Titanic or a civil war battlefield ? Id kill to own something from the Titanic .

There but for the grace of Me go I

Pressure caused explosion?

R338 I would. They probably won’t ever find them. Sub probably got caught in that unstable time/light dimension vortex that floats around the Atlantic.

Elon, busy re-purposing his last submarine rescue.

R340 you must be a long lost sibling of mine.

Since time works differently down there does that mean they have more time or less time before air runs out?

If you look at the map, the Titanic ship landed right on the edge of the continental shelf. What if they veered off course into the even further abyss?

R350??????? Time does not work differently in any tangible human way of perception. Maybe milliseconds but nothing dramatic.

[quote]I wonder how much something like this costs.

Your life.

Assuming they're all alive and at the bottom of the ocean, I wonder what they're talking about.

"So...how did you make your billion?"

"I'm thinking of a number between one and two hundred fifty thousand..."

"Anybody have a blunt?"

"Do you want to know what the most annoying sound in the world is?"

"Somehow the thought of being in a space shuttle with Bezos is sounding less bad."

They have underwater cables all across ocean. Wish a cable could be attached to a sub in a similar fashion.

[quote] What's Darwinian about this? Humans wanting to explore?

Because we weren't meant to be there. If you were meant to see Titanic at the bottom of the ocean, you would have been born a fish.

It was full of killer bees!

I have actual pieces of coal from Titanic. I got it directly at the office way downtown office of the guy who found it. The only allowed to be sold is the coal to finance more trips down. Gave my friends some pieces for Christmas after seeing the movie.

If they’re still alive, they’re hungry, thirsty, and breathing is becoming laborious

Poor guys

CNN has identified two of the passengers:

Sum Ting Wong

Wi Tu Lo

I'm envious, R358; borderline jealous, in fact. I've been mildly obsessed with the wreck since I read "Raise the Titanic" in c1983.

I wish I knew how to quit you, RMS Titanic.

So, among the passengers is a young marine-biologist who is the descendent of the baby that Rose gave up for adoption. And thus:

Titanic 3, Ain't Done Killin' Yet

R356 And the donkey of the day goes to. If you were meant to fly to Paris you shoulda been born a bald eagle. That’s the equivalent of what you said. If it was intended for you to drive mountainous terrains at high speeds you shoulda been a cougar.

I watched the Sunday Morning program posted here. The guy (apparently the CEO who is down there) said the submersible itself is uncrushable, it’s a round tube. He had no qualms about that. The rest, though…they have difficulty communicating between the submersible and the ship topsides. I don’t see how they can do any kind of recovery when it’s that deep. It will be like MH370, we’ll never know for sure.

The submarine will be returned to the surface by the underwater aliens, just like in the movie The Abyss.

The Abyss was a perfect movie up until the end, r365. Just a magnificent movie ruined by the weird, weird ending.

Hopefully they don’t return like Sphere. Dustin Hoffman’s character was truly insufferable by the end of that film.

[quote]If you were meant to fly to Paris you shoulda been born a bald eagle.

Bald eagles don't cross oceans.

And they're only found in North America.

We have these things called brains which allow us to make tools like eyeglasses, and go into space, make medicine to keep your dumbass alive.

Of course every news network or other source has their arm chair quarterback issuing theories on what may have happened to this submarine.

No huge fan of Fox, but their guy's theory sounds most plausible; the sub got entangled in something thus is stuck somewhere in or around wreckage of Titanic.

Are they selling combo tickets to view the Titanic and the new submarine wreckage yet?

[quote]r3 How terrible.

Seats on the tourist submersible cost $250,000. So at worst we lost a few 1%ers.

Don’t expect me to shed any tears. They’re even lazier than the Everest thrill seekers who get carried up by Sherpas.

Apparently it takes 8 hours to get to the wreckage and this thing went missing less than 2 hours into the trip. And since the only means of communicating with the ship above was via text, something obviously went wrong there. Without the ability to communicate, and the only way the sub would've known where to go, it got lost. And since it doesn't have a GPS system, it may never be found. What a horrible way to go.

R368 well gash darnit whatever bird makes the analogy work.

Send James fucking Cameron and Robert Ballard down there now with the Navy and private companies that have been there before, the Jason Project whatever. Trace their last remaining projected location and search around the fucking wreckage.

Do it right now, not when they recover skeletons in a tin can. Use. The. Billionaires. Money. They. Would. Want. That!!

The Abyss is one of the most underrated movies of all time.

"Goddammit, you bitch! You never backed away from anything in your life! Now fight!"

Have they tried bombing the wreckage, to get the submarine thing free? Lots of people are saying a bomb would do the trick. Look into it, maybe.

The kraken killed them!

Diving or otherwise exploring sunken vessels always presents chance of being trapped or entangled in wreck or something else. This and or losing one's way and simply cannot remember how to get out of wreck and thus back to surface.

There have been 22 deaths of divers nosing around wreck of the Andrea Doria.

The orcas heard another billionaire was in the vicinity and, well...

So, was the sub was launched from a surface ship which is still in the area?

R371 😂. Shameful.

Could they have been eaten by sharks?

[quote]Don’t expect me to shed any tears. They’re even lazier than the Everest thrill seekers who get carried up by Sherpas.

I wasn't going to go to the top of that fucking mountain without my cappuccino maker!

R377 DJT is having neck scarf lady look into shining powerful lights into the ocean, almost like a cleaning to make the water clearer to be able to see them.

Yes r381

I cannot think of a more horrifying way to go..

If they are stuck down there- they are on a 72 hour countdown to dying of no oxygen? Would it be like drowning or would they just fall asleep?

The question is- why can they not text? Would this mean there was some kind of catastrophe and death was instant? (Far more preferable)

[quote]r63 Here's an image that helps illustrate the depths we are talking about here. By no means was this a low risk excursion. Shudder.

So with that water pressure, how do they get off the submarine to paddle around in the Titanic hallways, etc?

Did they take the jab?

R387 They would just fall asleep. And it’s still gna be some left so they have a bit more time, most likely up to 16 hrs after the original scope.

[Quote] Maybe they'll find the necklace that the old lady threw into the ocean

My pussy is as deep as the ocean.

Serious question: How much deep-deep sea capabilities do the Canadian and American militaries have? Do they have any submarines that go below 10,000 feet?

I can't imagine there's much of strategic importance down there...

R388 I doubt they were getting off. I’m actually positive the Titanic wreckage is too deep to host deep sea scuba diving. The pressure is too great. Footage you seen had to be inside enclosed submersibles similar to this or submarines. Or maybe some type of video technology external to the vessel starts roaming.

R387, how would they get a signal down there?

This sub is bolted shut from the OUTSIDE, so even in the unlikely event the occupants somehow manage to float to the surface, they’re still stuck inside with the air running out 😬

Alistair Greig, a professor of marine engineering at University College London, said submersibles typically have a drop weight, which is “a mass they can release in the case of an emergency to bring them up to the surface using buoyancy.”

“If there was a power failure and/or communication failure, this might have happened, and the submersible would then be bobbing about on the surface waiting to be found,” Greig said.

Another scenario is a leak in the pressure hull, in which case the prognosis is not good, he said.

“If it has gone down to the seabed and can’t get back up under its own power, options are very limited,” Greig said. “While the submersible might still be intact, if it is beyond the continental shelf, there are very few vessels that can get that deep, and certainly not divers.”

Even if they could go that deep, he doubts they could attach to the hatch of OceanGate’s submersible.

Chris Parry, a retired navy rear admiral from the U.K., told Sky News the rescue was “a very difficult operation.”

“The actual nature of the seabed is very undulating. Titanic herself lies in a trench. There’s lots of debris around. So trying to differentiate with sonar in particular and trying to target the area you want to search in with another submersible is going to be very difficult indeed.”

Shana, they bought their tickets, they knew what they were getting into. I say, let'em crash.

The head of the submarine company, a British Billionaire, and an explorer. Who are the other 2 paying passengers?

It's been located.

R389 wins the thread 😂

on monday the stupid company released this statement (I do not know why):

"My thoughts and prayers are with everyone … all the people in the sub and the people that are out there looking," Daley said Monday afternoon. "I'm very optimistic that this will come to a very happy ending, and I'm hopeful that it will."

R398, the Professor. And Mary Ann.

Sometime on Monday, it was released they have 70 hours of life support left. According to the article with the quote, OceanGate said the submersible has life support capacity for five people on board the Titan for 96 hours — or four days.

Why don't they just open the hatch and just swim out to the surface?.

Starting when though, R403?

Can you imagine paying 250 k to die that way?

The most common cause of postwar submarine losses

Maybe they got eaten by the meg.

I actually they will be found if they have not been warped into a time traveling vortex, which does exist and I don’t care if people think I’m a loon.

OMG.

Go to the beginning of this live stream. They interview a guy who was on this submersible. Holy hell.

SOMEBODY CHECK THE CABINS!!

R398 I read the CEO is a billionaire.

One person can survive longer. All he has to do is strangle the others. Survival of the fittest.

Michael Biehn was so beautiful!

r413 Haha that’s funny but that’s not how oxygen works nor the human lung capacity. Killing the 4 other people wouldn’t make a difference. Because they cannot breath that much air at one time. There would have to be like an exponential number of the current size, which would have never happen in the first place.

4 hours ago an update was provided to the public, they have NOT found this thing.

Death was instantaneous. The hull would have imploded in a nano second. They probably had no idea what was happening. Not a bad way to go.

[quote]One person can survive longer. All he has to do is strangle the others. Survival of the fittest.

And then spend the next however many days with four rotting corpses…no thanks.

In a brilliant scheme to fake one’s death this expeditionary travel was planned with all onboard being paid riders. A rich billionaire was charged with sexual exploits of the Catholic high school he worked and whose misdeeds from the 70s were finally catching up to him. Only the mother of one of the victims who committed suicide in 1981 stemming from the abuse spots the filthy rich predator while on vacation in Bermuda. To complicate matters the billionaire son commits a spree shooting at school, and while the nurse who took him out is originally haired a hero, the detectives later learned she played a doctor and murderer at the elderly clinic in which she formerly worked and is religious psychopath calling herself the angel of death.

Everyone who wants to save them let's pray together really hard and summon our collective brain power! We can contact the UFOs always diving in the water! Let's go! Let's pray them out!

It's not guaranteed that the submersible imploded and everyone on board died in a nanosecond, just extremely likely. There's still a small chance that the ship suffered an electrical failure and every one is alive, in the dark, at the bottom of the sea, knowing they have days before they suffocate.

So a rescue really does need to be mounted, but I do hate the idea of using public funds to rescue a silly bazillinaire with a really expensive hobby. Let the other bazillionaires with this insanely expensive hobby fund the rescue, let James Cameron and the relatives of Titannic passengers pay for everything! And provide the equipment, Cameron alone probably has better deep-sea stuff than the entire Canadian Coast Guard.

[quote]There's still a small chance that the ship suffered an electrical failure and every one is alive, in the dark, at the bottom of the sea, knowing they have days before they suffocate.

MARY!!!!!!!!

Yeah why haven't we heard from James Cameron? Surely he's itching to get involved. Or is he too engrossed in the next Avatar?

What is kind of confusing me is the duration for oxygen provided on the basis of that’s how long this vessel can be underwater with a fully functioning system. There isn’t preset amount of oxygen there is mechanism or system what have you producing continual oxygen. If some type of traumatic system failure or electrical issue occurred they have a lot less time. Actually that doesn’t make sense either because the pressurization stabilizing features would also stop working. So yeah it must be the first thing I typed.

Little Match Girl ending I fear.

[quote]Or is he too engrossed in the next Avatar?

Another one? That's the real tragedy.

This would make a great disaster movie premise. Stella Stevens plays a gold-digging hussy who convinced her rich husband(Ernest Borgnine) to buy tickets on the sub because she loved the movie and just had to see it in person. Shelley Winters and her hubby are on it because their kids bought them tickets as a gift for their 50th wedding anniversary. Lee Grant plays the First Lady, who thought the Titanic excursion would be a good way to promote her Clean Oceans campaign.

UNESCO offers basic protection for shipwrecks in international waters only after a century has passed since they sank. Strange to have such a long delay, especially now that technological advances make finding and reaching shipwrecks easier.

Why would some think they got tangled in the Titanic? It's very much doubful they even reached it without those from the above guiding them. And they lost contact less than 2 hours into the trip. Something happened to it structurally. Probably a leakage.

It takes about 2 hours to get down to Titanic.

Stella Stevens to Shelley Winters: "Tell that fat ass not to take such deep breaths! She sucking up all the oxygen!"

I'm thinking the window cracked and flooded. Maybe it was hot and expanded or something.

What saddens me is the lack of action now in the golden hours of opportunity. For sure there will be a lot of resources devoted to this in the weeks to come. There will be a buzz, we found it! Why didn't you do it when it mattered? Slower than molasses.

the US Coast guard does not know how much oxygen/life support they have, which seems highly problematic. The 96 hours/4 days has not been made clear to the US cost guard, so it does not sound like standard known equipment. Moreover, they have not found them at all. If all communication went down, how does the life support not go down too. And they could have just blown up.

It does not look good.

If it was a hull breach they're finished.

This seems like the most likely scenario to me as the ship has failsafes for almost every malfunction that would cause it to rise to the surface.

Except of course if it can't.

True, and there would have been some type of communication..

R434 agreed, I myself was being ignorant, forgetting oxygen is produced not merely self contained pre-ordained on the vessel. Hopefully the vessel is somewhere chugging, floating, bobbling in the Atlantic with all inside safe and sound.

Oops my comment was r433.

They are hoping that that thing surfaces to the top, then it will be on the ocean.

Yeah if it just lost communication.

R74, Think of the merchandising opportunities!

They've faked their death and are now in a hidden lair, Dr. Evil style, plotting to take over the world.

[quote] What saddens me is the lack of action now in the golden hours of opportunity

Get a load of this idiot. He's some kind of wizard that knows everything that is being done right now.

Stella is wearing just panties, what else does she need?

This will be great material for Mortician Lady.

communication systems are easier than life support systems.

"What saddens me is the lack of action now in the golden hours of opportunity."

How much deep-sea diving equipment do you think is immediately available off the coast of Newfoundland??? Do you think the Canadian Coast Guard has ultra-deep sea submersibles on the spot and ready to go, just in case a tourist or a scientist has an accident at 10,000 feet below sea level?

Seriously, about all the Coast Guard could do in a case like this is sweep the nearby seas, in case the submersible has bobbed to the surface.

Why don't the passengers just use their cellphones to call the main ship to tell them where they are?

They’re dead or will be before any rescue. Stop trying save lives that CAN be saved!

The sub was equipped with an emergency distress beacon which would have automatically begun transmitting unless the hull was crushed in a nanosecond.

R449 yep time traveling vortex occurred.

If they've been pancaked, will it -or parts of it- eventually float to the surface?

this has already failed.

This sub thang did not self abort and rise to the top, sending off a rescue beacon. None of this happened, as of yet.

r444 I'd forgotten about her. For whatever reason, she always irritated me.

R446 e don't know but I imagine a BILLIONAIRE or their family might be willing to find out. Don't they have connections to other expedition companies? Could there be a naval effort?

It's like everyone has accepted they're dead. We don't quite know yet.

If they can't even get a drone down quickly it's just over.

[r452] this is an easier function. This sub-thang did not do this. If it cannot do an easier function, can it do a more difficult function and in that kind of high pressure environment that it is in? It does not look good, prepare yourselves.

The billionaire's fortune, like the fortunes of the wealthy men aboard Titanic, is useless to him now. He and his companions will not be rescued. Indeed, how could they be?

Well, you could pay some Russians to search for starters? You can call up James Cameron. You can all the Navy. You can call Dr. Robert Ballard.

Or you can just be like fuck it. Guess they're dead. Let's find the ghost ship oooh whoo. That will be a fun hunt.

I just wanted an old CBS clip about the vessel, with the now missing CEO. They are a deeply unserious company and I honestly can’t believe anyone would get on that. The vessel they demoed on CBS was operated by a PlayStation remote control.

I suspect they pieced this whole thing together and missed a flaw and it imploded. I highly doubt it had any backup safety measures in place.

Best case scenario? An advanced alien civilization or an advanced earth civilization (both with massive dongs) is living down there in one of the caves and intercepted them for sex slaves.

Forget it, Jake. It's Titanic-town.

R458 oh my! Just goes to show you being low rent NEVER pays. It’s relative. If you are a billionaire never pay millions for a cheap fix when hundreds of millions is clearly necessary.

they have less than 96 hours and they are more than 70 hours into this, according to this fucked up company. Also, life support could have failed already. If it has not, it can go down at anytime, really.

The sub-thang did not abort and rise to the top yet. This is not a good sign either. It really should have done this when communications failed and it didn't, but this is what they are hoping for.

[quote]The thing is the Harry/Meg hate us so strong is not just limited to klan grannies.

Will you kindly shut the fuck up about your sick obsession, which no one on this Titanic-related thread gives two shits about?

[quote]The vessel they demoed on CBS was operated by a PlayStation remote control.

I found the problem…

It's going to be difficult to convince the rest of the world not to leer, speculate, and trade on all of the gory particulars of this tragedy, given that this is exactly what the tourists onboard the doomed vessel were setting out to do to the victims of the Titanic.

Hope they don't kill each other in a fight for survival

VIDEO of the interior. It has a toilet.

R463 you know what. I’m just going to say ok, you are right. I was merely responding to the Harry/Meg troll. Well actually I think I was responding to a troll responding to a troll shit, now I can’t remember. Sorry.

Give it a rest R465 . The great grandkids of the original victims are long dead.

R465 oh please 🙄. They were visiting what could be described as an historic site; a deep sea adventure. This is so much more than that.

[quote]R432 What saddens me is the lack of action now in the golden hours of opportunity. For sure there will be a lot of resources devoted to this in the weeks to come.

And who’s paying for THAT ? Like public funds can’t be better used than to go traipsing after wayward jet setters??

Think of what we spent on stupidass Julian Sands, already.

This fake regard for the deceased and respectability politics is just resentment disguised as concern. People on DL are too funny sometimes.

I agree with R471. Why are taxpayers having to pay to search for a billionaire who clearly has far too much money?

If this turns out OK, are there ever tickets on Groupon?

[quote]r395 This sub is bolted shut from the OUTSIDE, so even in the unlikely event the occupants somehow manage to float to the surface, they’re still stuck inside with the air running out

That is [italic]hilarious !

Grouperon

I don't know why anyone would want to visit that tragic wreck. Too creepy for me.

R404 TFW when you regret your boat trip. POV: 3000 leagues under the sea

r477 just doing a Google image search of the wreckage unsettled this MARY!!!! a bit

Because I would love to see the getup of the corpse of the new rich character portrayed by Kathy Bates. I just know she slayed and offended the old money bores.

Why does any billionaire, edgelord, or risk taker do anything crazy and or incredibly expensive?

To brag that they were able to and everyone else wasn't, R477.

It's all very Gilligan's Island!

Why is anyone still acting like this is a search-and-rescue mission? These people are already dead.

Can I have the billionaire's stuff?

Give Irwin Allen a call.

You'd think the billionaire's company would mount their own rescue operation.

I suspect they're already drafting speeches about the tragedy and I'M YOUR BOYFRIEND NOW NANCY oops said the quiet part out loud.

And I’m floating in a most peculiar way And the starfish look very different today

For here am I sitting in a tin can Far below the sea Planet Earth is blue And there’s nothing I can do...

THIS IS ALL THE FAULT OF PETE BUTTEGEIG! HE NEEDS TO BE IMPEACHED AS TRANSPORTATION SECRETARY!!!

r487, they'll also blame Biden, Kamala, Hunter Biden's laptop, and Hillary's emails

They're fine, they send their love

They need something like this for these subs. Reel them back to the top.

If they didn't perish immediately, billionaire and the unknown other paying ones must blame CEO Stockton Rush. Awkward!

Any news yet?

Do they have cell phone service that deep?

[quote] Any news yet?

They’re fine — they send their love!

I'm with the above poster who said just looking at the pictures of the wreck was creepy enough. I cannot imagine going down 2.4 miles to look at it in person. I would be flipping the fuck out.

Last contact with them was 1 hour 45 min into their dive.

It sounds like something happened to compromise the structural integrity of the submersible. Maybe one of the vision ports cracked. In that case it would have imploded and death would have been instantaneous.

Were I willing to pay this much to do something so useless I'd rather dive over the Bismarck

[r474] there are.

Unfortunately, the companies communication system is down.

And we do not off refunds at this time.

Forgive me for not feeling sorry for wealthy idiots who paid more money than I'll ever see in my lifetime to venture down to a graveyard to see where over 1500 people died for entertainment.

The ironing is delicious

I went with my sister to a seance on the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic.

I wasn't expecting much......but man those people are PISSED! Every time someone goes down there or bothers the site - they have to relive the night all over again.

Leave them the fuck alone!!!!

Buck would never have tried to break into Davy Jones' locker.

BEAKING

BEARKING

BEARKING

BEARKING

Where's that French guy, the one who had the show back in the day?

BEARKING BEARKIN BEARKI BREAK BEAR BEA BE B

You guys know who I mean. I forget his name.

R507....I BET HE WAS NAMED BEARKING! (SAID IN FRANCOIS!) MUWAH! OUI! MOI PAPPIE WET!

Oh wow just watched this. I wonder if they choked out the CEO when he informed them they weren't going back up.

R509- BEAR KING THE THIRD!!!!!!!

The interviewer really called them out.

r509 Jacques Cousteau

R511- THE CEO WAS NAMED BEAR KING!

R514- WRONG! IT WAS BEAR KINGSTEOU!

YES, R514. Thank you. We need him now. Well, not we, but they.

We're going to need another thread soon. I'm going to bed so someone else start it and link it here.

Ta.

R513- UNFORTUNATELY BEAR KING THE THIRD, ESQ. MD, DO, PA, JD, PHD HAS BEEN MISTAKEN AGAIN!

R502- BEAR KING WOULD HAVE!

Tell us more, R501!!

Does anyone think this is the ultimate karma?

The 5 people who possibly died ARE the reborn spirits of the billionaires and crew who SURVIVED the Titanic sinking in April of 1912 - and now they perished at sea, the way they should have in 1912!!

Start a second thread someone!!!

R522 Easy now buttercup. I hate when 2nd threads are started too soon.

Where are these psychos?

R123 Smoking is bad for you.

"Forgive me for not feeling sorry for wealthy idiots who paid more money than I'll ever see in my lifetime to venture down to a graveyard to see where over 1500 people died for entertainment. "

You won't see 250k in your lifetime?

Am I dumb, but how does a submarine (probably with radar) go missing?

R526 oh gosh he means at one time. But I refuse to believe posters like you are that thick; you are just being obtuse or comically cruel.

R527, it goes missing when you are not able to find it.

I read that the vehicle relies on texting to find its destination. It seems very amateur and unsafe. I feel bad for the families of the victims, but this seems high risk.

r123 made me laugh more than it should have

R159, wow that is dark my friend. I don’t know if I should laugh or cry.

David Pogue, a CBS reporter who travelled in the Titan submersible last year, told the BBC about the issues that both the submersible crew and the land crew were likely to be experiencing, saying that there was currently "no way" to communicate with the vessel as neither GPS nor radio "work under water".

"When the support ship is directly over the sub, they can send short text messages back and forth. Clearly those are no longer getting a response," Mr Pogue said.

The pressure is mounting!

The footage @ r511 shows the Titanic to be very unkempt looking, covered with rust, stainage, and barnacles.

At those prices they need to clean it up for the tourists.

Some of you think time traveling vortexes outside of our universe aren’t real but you should read up on all the occurrences that have occurred in the Bermuda Triangle. It will make you a believer. Thank you X Files for inspiring my fascination in these matters. The truth is weirder the fiction; just do your research.

"David Pogue, who went on board, reported that he read a waiver that described the submersible as an "experimental" vessel, "that has not been approved or certified by any regulatory body, and could result in physical injury, disability, emotional trauma or death".

OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush then gave him a tour of the submersible, where he revealed the vessel only has one button and is run using a video game controller".

r536, your tinfoil hat needs adjusting.

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗹𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘆 𝗯𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗮 𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲

Harding flew to space onboard New Shepard, as part of the Blue Origin NS-21 mission, on 4 June 2022. Harding was one of six astronauts to go to space on Blue Origin's 5th human spaceflight aboard the New Shepard rocket.

R537 oh my, when keeping it cheap goes wrong.

Now that they're "under the sea" they can sing and dance with Ariel, Flounder, and Sebastian!

I hope they at least got to gaze upon the Titanic wreckage as they slowly suffocated.

It would be such a letdown to go all that way just to die upside down, buried in silt and sand.

Maybe the Kraken got them.

This story is the stuff of nightmares.

Maybe Scott Mann can direct the film version.

One of Pakistan's richest men and his son are amongst the five people missing in the submarine that set off to see the wreck of the Titanic, it was revealed today.

Shahzada Dawood, 48, and his son Sulaiman Dawood, 19, were on board the small underwater craft take paying tourists to view the famous wreck, which lies 12,500ft beneath the surface of the Atlantic Ocean, 370 miles off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada.

The Dawood family are amongst the richest in Pakistan, but have strong links to the UK and are believed to live in a Surrey mansion. Shahzada's father Hussain is the Chairman of the Dawood Hercules Corporation, which makes chemicals, and the Engro Corporation, which makes fertilisers.

Paul-Henri Nargeolet - the French world-renowned explore, is also on board.

OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush is believed to be the fifth crew member.

'Titan' - the name of the Titanic submersible - lost contact with the surface for at least seven hours and had appeared to be closing in on its destination.

t's understood that Titan communicates by sending a ping to the Polar Prince every 15 minutes - the last of which was received while the submersible floated above the Titanic wreckage at about 10am EST yesterday (3pm UK time).

r546 for some reason, I thought they would be rich Chinese.

R536 start a thread and give us some insight. I’m curious.

We're due for a sequel (thread)! I'm on the edge of my seat!

R529 hi, this is Rose, I understand what “goes missing means” it just does not seem plausible when it appears this was a very newsworthy story. Did yurt not have radar? It just seems strange to just go fucking missing? Maybe R536 thought process is plausible?

Yes, I also question how we can be the only ones in this whole Universe. We are not alone.

MARY!!! r549

On their iPods:

Their best bet for survival is an underground earthquake that triggers a tsunami that brings their pod back up to surface!

[quote]r546 OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush is believed to be the fifth crew member.

Good.

Bye, bitch!

This is nightmare fuel.

Do subs have a black box?

Also on their iPods…

I saw a video of the small inside of the sub and how they have to use the bathroom, I can't imagine being stuck in there longer and then fearing the air will run out. *shudder*

I keep thinking along the lines of, they should issue cyanide capsules to these tourists.

Have a nice adventure here's your suicide pill and a complementary bag of honey roasted nuts see you in a few hours or never

Couldn't they just have been satisfied with the 3-D version of James Cameron's movie?

Losing oxygen is not like suffocating or choking. Y’all must remember oxygen is a percentage at just the right parameter for humans to survive. When that shit goes down, other shit on the periodic table goes up. I can’t remember what they are. At any rate, I believe you enter a euphoric feeling like when overheating at extreme temperatures. You knock out unconscious and eventually die.

Rock Hudson once had a similar experience

Why don't they just blow the hatch and grab a dolphin to guide them up to the surface? Dolphins guided Aquaman thru the ocean in the movie so I know for a fact it is possible.

R521 That’s probably the most logical explanation…

R457, Do you ACTUALLY think James Cameron would be able to figure out a way to get those people out of their predicament? Like he's some kind of maritime engineer?

Do you SERIOUSLY believe "some Russians" would be competent in this situation? [See: Kursk]

Do you SINCERELY suppose our Navy would even bother to get involved?! This isn't a missing submarine; it's a missing rich man's submersible entertainment vehicle! The ONLY reason the Navy searched for Junior's plane, which went down in water only 116' deep, is that his UNCLE the SENATOR asked and his father was a GD PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES!

As for Dr. Robert Ballard: His area of expertise is shipwrecks, but whatever.

And not to put too fine a point on it, but you seem to offer what you think are ways to locate the submersible.

The problem you neglected to address fully, because you were in a rush to get your offended sneer on, is the point of my post:

RESCUE. How? Cranes, hooks, and pulleys? The oxygen would be long gone before that was set up, if it could be. As for any Plan B, the passengers cannot leave this submersible to be "transferred" to another.

You probably thought there was hope for the Challenger astronauts, too.

Elon Musk seems to be nothing but trouble. The missing submarine was using Elon Musk's Starlink satellites for its communications at sea.

I've been on exactly one submarine voyage my entire life. And even at the tender age of 5, I knew it was something I would never, ever, wish to do again.

I wonder who will star in the movie.

So according to BBC film- apparently the missing #Titanic sub is just steered with a cheap Logitech games controller and one button ..

Pretty sure Starlink and any other sat coms don't function UNDER WATER.

Movie? Not enough drama or built up pretense unless of course you mean a darkly comic subversive but overwrought horror anthology series which dictates the weeks leading up to the event. I am your girl.

This whole thing is so bizarre. Who would want to do this? And of those offering this "service", how could they send anybody to the bottom of the ocean with dodgy communication tools and a game controller?

I guess it seemed like a good idea at the time. In hindsight, not so much. The pilot was a world-respected diver...how did HE agree to this nonsense?

Well, on the bright side, now they'll have TWO wrecks to sell tours of!

I miss Sunday nights as a kid with my family watching Jacques Cousteau

New thread:

Pace t'imploro.... Salma adorata;

Isi placata ti schiuda il ciel!

Pace t'imploro, ... pace, pace... ... pace!

No bathroom.

If they only have 1 button and a playstation controller why the need for 5 crew members? Another to send the text message for directions on their phone, ok?

The others to help the customers on and off?

[italic]Deep Energy[/italic], a pipelay ship has arrived on scene. Its own ROVs are rated at just under 10,000 feet, so I imagine they replaced them. Some can go to around 20,000.

I really only posted this because you can never go wrong with pipe-laying and deep, deep, deep energy on DL.

R24 I watch his videos from time to time. He's interesting, intelligent and has a great nerdish look when he's wearing his glasses. Without the spectacles, he borders on being hot.

It's cold down there. What are they doing to keep warm?

[R579] The other “crew members” are actually paying passengers.

They should have hired a stewardess.

They paid 250k and got that ultimate exclusive experience they'd been craving for. Whoever is in line for their inheritance must be on a roller coaster of emotions right now.

If it was a catastrophic decompression, would there have been any time for any of the passengers to shout out “ Trans Women AREN’T Women!” before perishing?

More billionaires should do this.

Regardless, it must be an awful way to die.

Keeping your head above water

Making a wave when you can

🎶 we all died in a yellow submarine. yellow submarine. Yellow submarine.🎶🎶

Unless they're going to be rescued, I hope they died quickly. I cannot imagine a worse death than sitting there for days with a group of people, waiting to run out of oxygen. I think I would just ask someone to strangle me.

r591 I would think that survival instincts would make that hard. For all they know, they're minutes away from being rescued at any given time.

But I agree: I hope they went quickly.

R592 Yeah, I understand the notion about survival instincts. But I'm claustrophobic, and the irrational worries I've had even in subways would actually be coming true. I just can't even begin to imagine. God help them.

There was a super rich Pakistani businessman on there with his 19 year old son. I figured it was just the kooky CEO and a bunch of rich guys having mid to late life crises.

It sounds like the nerdy guy in R24’s video is faking his accent.

[quote] I cannot imagine a worse death than sitting there for days with a group of people, waiting to run out of oxygen

It's happened before

[quote]So according to BBC film- apparently the missing #Titanic sub is just steered with a cheap Logitech games controller and one button ..

Sounds like a damn Little Rascals episode.

Are they all rewriting their wills?

R520 the other thing I remember from the spirits who came through is that they all thought that buying a ticket on the ship entitled them to a seat in a lifeboat......there should have been lifeboats for all....and each of them thought help was on the way and that the ship would not sink.....until the last fifteen minutes or so.

Someone, anyone, please explain what a fathom is!!