BEARKING: Titanic Sub Three

You have to link to the old ones.

Jeez give me a minute will you

Thank you OP.

It's just a shame there is no live CCTV feed on board, that way at least we would be able to see how they are getting on in there.

They should get these guys on the case

Is there a place where the abyss is steaming?

The Abyshh.

With all that money that each passenger pays, you would think that it would go toward improving the design and safety of these vessels. They went very cheap, for the high risks of these tours. It's almost like a parody you'd see on SNL.

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After hearing about the "knocks" I'm out. It's too horrible to consider.

[quote]After hearing about the "knocks" I'm out.

Well, that makes one of us!

I posted this on another thread but it makes me think of the end of the song Space Oddity, scary

Ground Control to Major Tom Your circuit's dead, there's something wrong Can you hear me, Major Tom? Can you hear me, Major Tom? Can you hear me, Major Tom? Can you he—

Here am I floating 'round my tin can Far above the Moon Planet Earth is blue And there's nothing I can do

R2 has the link to the superior thread. Anything with 'bearking' in the title is fool's gold and should be ignored - unless you enjoy wasting your time. I'm only commenting here as a PSA.

r14 good luck posting on that other thread, it's full

R2's link is to the now-closed Part Two. THIS is the continuation of that superior thread. Bearking or no.

How many possible hours are left ?

Enough O until Thursday morning sometime. Could run out by 6AM.

Walter White isn't too happy about it

Their hearts will go on only until 6AM tomorrow.

Theoretically the air is gone by 11 AM GMT. However, apparently the Frenchman is ultra-experienced, so some have expressed hopes that he has organised the others to sleep whille one stays awake, which can help stretch out the oxygen time a little longer.

I'm not sure my anxiety would let me sleep, r22

They originally said oxygen only good until 2 pm Eastern today.

I don't hate wealthy people.

I noticed a long time ago that humans invented methods of measuring "value", be it currency, physical beauty, etc. and whoever controls a surfeit of it enjoys privileges that other humans don't.

We tolerate that.

When it comes to Earths elements, however, I do wonder about this inexplicable defiance, by some, of common sense.

Earth's physical materials have existed for BILLIONS of years. Humans have been around for a nano-second of that.

Yet, among us are humans who look at an ocean, a mountain, or a planet and convince themselves "I physically belong there".

Well, have at it, but I won't buy that lofty nonsense along the lines of, "But this is human exploration and research at its apex. It's worthy."

Bullshit. This is human stupidity.

And Earth is saying, " Fuck off. I ain't your personal amusement park."

Do you think it's now sorta like the movie Alive, about the plane crash in the jungle, except here they're drawing straws for last fucks with the teenager? Maybe that was what the banging sound was?

Sad he's no looker. Moral of the story: if going subbing, dont' use a $30 Playstation consol as the control, and always take someone hot, for a worse-case scenario.

I can't wait for the porn movie version. Hope Dawson's in it. 50 Loads Deeper.

The last thing anyone would want to do before dying is Sleep. They are probably freaking out , high blood pressure and all , using up More oxygen...

It baffles me that Elon Musk hasn't saved them yet with his super-duper submarine. Doesn't he like rich people? Or does he only play the hero when kids are involved?

I'd rather be semi poor and read my books and do my hobbies and cook what I like in my little house. The older I get the more I enjoy the comfort of my own home and have no desire to do something like these people. But somebody has to be adventurous, let them have at it.

"You don't know anything about these people, maybe they give tens of millions of dollars to charity every year. It's their money they can spend it as they want. You sound like an angry bitter raging lunatic."

This is the most pathetic thing posted in all three threads. Hey buddy, they still won't give you any money and they still won't fuck you. Haha. Fcking loser. Go find something/someone actually worth defending. Meat riding idiot.

Hypoxia will causes their cocks to be soft and dysfunctional! So sad they can't have the last orgasm of their lives.

The "won't somebody think of the drowned migrants" whingeing is missing the point. People aren't invested in this story because these guys are rich; people are invested because of the Titanic. She's the draw and the star of this show. If some billionaires went missing in some other part of the sea, there'd be half the interest level.

[quote] The media cares more about the Titanic sub than drowned migrants

Only one of these is an Irwin Allen film.

[quote] It's just a shame there is no live CCTV feed on board, that way at least we would be able to see how they are getting on in there.

Oh good lord. Honey, those people are dead.

There's something that freaks me out about knowing the Titanic is still down there. I don't know how to describe it, it's irrational. It's like the way I sometimes get creeped out by thinking about all the other planets out there with no life on them.

I’m just loving how this thread is pissing off the poor people on here. It eats away at them knowing that others are wealthy whist they are scraping along by the bones of their ass.

I agree, r33, but other stories, like the Sago Mine disaster, certainly held the media's attention (at least in the US), as did the 2010 Copiapó mining accident. Miners aren't exactly the fat of the land. To me, the draw of this story has nothing to do with the fact they're billionaires -- that doesn't make it interesting to me. It's the (dwindling) possibility that they still might be rescued.

People like a good story. This is a good story.

r37 sounds lovely.

R37 Pretty sure that's not it. But you seem to be getting off on that notion. Get your nut buddy. Haha

It’s also the suspense. People love a good suspense story. A boat capsizing is tragic but not suspenseful.

Well rewrite the film! Besides:,with the Academy's new diversity rules for Oscar eligibility, tokenism is mandatory!

So first an alien force attacks the migrant ship, and THEN, for the climax, attacks the sub, so snuffing those we really care about – the white and rich.

Done! Oh wait. There will be a brave Chinese oceanographer too to ensure that box office is covered.

Some of the people in the sub are ethnic too, you know.

Simps for the ultra wealthy are so entertaining; so middle class.

[quote] knowing that others are wealthy whist they

Oh, dear.

So, uh, what exactly happens to a body if the submersible imploded? Can someone explain in excruciatingly graphic detail for those of us with a morbid curiosity?

*gets popcorn 🍿 *

Well that's the movie title: SQUISHED.

GASP just doesn't have the drawing power.

If the occupants survive this ordeal (very doubtful), they should be charged for every moment of the search and rescue effort. If they don’t survive, the estates and remaining resources of this company should be charged. Not one red cent should come from taxpayers for this. This trip was stupid.

Did they really send SOS signals but then it just stopped? Was this confirmed by anyone?

If they survive that company is going to get sued into oblivion. If they don’t survive, that company is still fucked.

r36 I don't know if it makes you feel better or worse, but there are roughly 3 million shipwrecks - that we know of - in the parts of the Oceans that have been either documented or discovered. That doesn't even count all the fishermen etc who died off the various coasts of the world who went basically forgotten, or all the galley slaves who were abandoned, chained to the oars, on sinking ships. On and on.

A significant chunk of the floors of the Atlantic, Pacific, Mediterranean, etc are all littered with bodies. And these are just the ones in the West. In that sense the Titanic site is less of an anomaly than first appears.

Why isn’t there a live CCTV feed on board? It would be more interesting if we could see what they are up to and how they are coping.

My guess is that one of them has shit themselves, so you can imagine the smell. I think another one will have lost the plot completely, had a mental breakdown leaving the others terrified. That could be the banging noise they heard, him banging his fists on the door.

If I were to go to one of these daredevil expeditions I would request a small vial of cyanade, or possibly a tank with carbon monoxide, and an hour before the oxigen gets depleted inside, I would finish my own life peacefully.

I just can’t imagine what it is like to be sofocating little by little until you die, it must be agonizing.

In a hundred years time people will be going down to visit the Titan. They should call their submersible Tit, in honour of Titan's legacy.

How do you make SOS sounds by tapping please? In case I ever need it

That the submarine used Starlink to send text messages (!) for its position is some delicious schadenfreude.

R55 short short short long long long short short short.

I think I learned it from that episode of “Isis” in the ghost town.

R55,

dot dot dot

dash dash dash

dot dot dot

R53 cyanide is anything but peaceful, carbon monoxide poisoning makes you puke and choke on your own puke.

Just being pedantic, I know what you mean. A nice, Swiss-made set of end-of-life pills in your breast pocket would be a very comfortable feeling.

Getting the death they deserve. Bahahahahahahaa

R59 Don’t the astronauts carry something like that?

I don't understand why the company owner couldn't have hit up all of the rich dudes who were interested in such a trip to contribute money/become investors in the project first so that they could have built a better submersible for the voyage.

R61 They don't, that's an urban legend.

He seems (seemed ...) pretty cocky, r62

My only wish is that Elon Musk was a passenger ...

[quote]In a hundred years time people will be going down to visit the Titan. They should call their submersible Tit, in honour of Titan's legacy.

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R63 Interesting. Thanks for the enlightenment on that!

Knowing you're going to die is bad enough - knowing you're going to die in just a few hours must be agony.

Good. It's what they deserve.

Oh so shut the fuck up, r69. You deserve death as well for thinking that’s an appropriate thought, much less a fucking public post, whore.

I am unsurprised by the rage and jealousy over their wealth — that is going to increase over time because people are tired of life being so difficult in America. Can you really blame them? These people, regardless of wealth, definitely used horrific judgment.

The one who seems arrogant is the captain and how glib he was when discussing the safety elements. I'm sorry for the others, although I disagree with tourism to the Titanic. If I had an ancestor who died (or survived) the 1912 tragedy I'd find it ghoulish to travel down to see the remains

Weird, I was scrolling past threads when I saw the pic @OP and thought "Beyoncé looks really nice here!"

Maybe the other 4 ganged up and beat the CEO to a pulp

R73 Could they even get up to gang up on the CEO? From the pics I saw they're basically swimming around in an MRI machine.

I'm getting thoroughly annoyed with the twitter idiots demanding that the search be called off and demanding more be done to rescue the migrants off the coast of Greece.

First of all, the submersible rescue mission is off the coast of North America and Canadian and American resources are being used. We are not taking resources from Greece to search for the sub. In fact, the efforts being made are taking NOTHING from the region where the migrant tragedy occurred. If you're displeased with the rescue efforts in Greece, then complain to the UN and to the Greek government. These are two separate incidents.

Secondly, for those claiming it's a waste of taxpayer dollars, no it fucking isn't. Even if the vessel isn't recovered, this experience provides invaluable training for BOTH American and Canadian search and rescue teams. We are literally paying these people as whether they're out trying to rescue this sub or not!! Also, victims of "misadventure" or whatever it's called are often provided with a bill for search and rescue efforts - ask any mountaineers or extreme skiers who've been rescued about that.

Thirdly, people are rescued ALL the time. What about idiots who refuse to evacuate from natural disaster zones until it's too late. It's pretty rare that these people are just left to die. Others take other risks - swim in the ocean and get swept out by tides, participate in extreme sports, hike in dangerous areas etc....and we still attempt to rescue them. We may think they're idiots, but we still try to rescue them.

Finally, if you're so concerned about the plight of the migrants in Greece, then by all means, donate to a charity that endeavors to help them. But no, none of the twitter loudmouths will do that, they'd rather bitch and moan about shit they don't understand from their phones they can't live without that they bought from companies run by evil billionaires.

You can't help but notice the irony of the situation but that anyone would delight in the passengers' agony is beyond me. Doesn't matter if it was Charles Manson down there. Whatever it is that fosters human empathy is broken today. I too find it hard to believe there isn't CCTV from the interior of the vessel, but I'm grateful there isn't.

R76 If contact was lost with the sub how on earth would we be able to see a CCTV feed?

The French ship Atalante, carrying a robot that can dive to 20,000ft (6,000 metres) underwater, is expected to arrive late today to join the search operation for the missing sub.

The unmanned robot, called Victor 6000, can dive deeper than other equipment now at the site in the North Atlantic and has arms that can be remotely controlled to cut cables or perform other manoeuvres to release a stuck vessel, Reuters reported, citing the robot’s operator, Ifremer.

Victor “is not capable of lifting the submarine on its own” but it can help hook the Titan sub to a ship with the capacity to lift it to the surface, Ifremer’s head of naval operations, Olivier Lefort, said.

Victor is able to do visual exploration with all the video equipment it has. It is also equipped with manipulating arms which could be used to extricate the sub, such as by sectioning cables or things that would be blocking it at the bottom.

He said the 25-strong crew required to operate the robot “can work non-stop for up to 72 hours” once it reaches the site. He added:

[quote] We don’t know what happened. The noises that were heard give us hope the submarine is on the seabed and that people are still alive, but other scenarios are possible. Even if hope is slim, we’ll go all the way.

Why the fuck hasn't the U.S. allowed Magellan to help out? Pride is a rubbish reason.

BBC claims the banging sounds were heard to be in the vicinity of the Titanic. The fact the sounds are intermittent leads experts to believe the source is human. Rescue operations are stepped up today because there isn't much time left before oxygen runs out.

Now I'm hoping for a live rescue. It would be beyond exciting to see the lost crew and tourists walk out of this alive. Would love to hear their stories.

That's insane, r79. I cannot believe the US Coast Guard would do that. What a shame.

R79 what difference does it make? The best hope now is to locate it, different drones and robots are on the way and soon will arrive to search the floor. But to to rescue them is very unlikely, it would take days or even weeks to maneuver the cables, how to attach it and pull the submarine up, it has never been done before. There were previous missions to salvage some wreckage, but not a whoe submarine, as an expert said yesterday, currently no one has the clue on how to do it.

You want to talk about tourism ?

𝘼 𝙘𝒐𝙪𝒑𝙡𝒆 𝒈𝙤𝒕 𝒂 𝒔𝙪𝒃𝙢𝒂𝙧𝒊𝙣𝒆 𝒂𝙣𝒅 𝒎𝙖𝒓𝙧𝒊𝙚𝒅 𝒐𝙣 𝙩𝒉𝙚 𝙙𝒆𝙘𝒌 𝒐𝙛 𝙩𝒉𝙚 𝙏𝒊𝙩𝒂𝙣𝒊𝙘.

An American couple have made history by getting married on the wreck of the Titanic, inside a submersible on the ship's deck.

New Yorkers David Leibowitz and Kimberley Miller descended to the wreck - four kilometres (2.4 miles) under the North Atlantic - in one of the submersibles used in the Hollywood movie Titanic.

They have rejected allegations that their wedding is in bad taste - an "insult" to the 1,523 people who died when the ship sank in 1912.

Captain Ron Warwick, Captain of the cruise liner, QE2, performed the extraordinary ceremony from the operations room of the Russian research ship, Akademik Keldysh.

Visits to the Titanic cost $36,000 per person - money that the Russian Academy of Sciences says it needs to fund its research projects.

I hope the people on the sub, if they're still alive, are writing journals and messages about this experience. I hope they had writing materials on board.

I hope they packed a pieces of luggage, too, just in case.

[quote]Is there a place where the abyss is steaming?

My abyss is steaming, baby.

This is even more of a nail biter than when that baby fell down the well.

In previous comments people are referring to how cramped it is inside, but (while it’s not exactly spacious) it’s not that cramped — the BBC has a background piece about it and shows the interior with people in it.

I still suspect it imploded but hope I’m wrong. Best case scenario is, the searchers find it, it’s tangled, the rescue sub is able to untangle them, it has time to ascend.

I’m not holding my breath, pardon the expression, but I am crossing my fingers.

This is a very interesting interview with a journalist who rode on the submersible to view the Titanic last year. "The search intensifies for the Titanic tourist submersible. CBS News Correspondent David Pogue recounts his experience visiting the sub last year."

Agree R76-

This is not that different from being buried alive in a coffin.

I don't know if being with others makes it better or worse-

Its really too horrible to contemplate. Its utterly vicious.

the fucking tin can can't be opened from the inside LOLOLOL.

they are already dead. it's a recovery

R91 you are a dick

The grim hours…

R13 I actually think Major Tom had it much better than these poor souls. Imagine being trapped with no light in a tight space with 4 other people, about 6 feet long. I'm over six feet long. I can't begin to fucking imagine.

R90 Agree. The fact that anyone can joke or be lighthearted about this situation astounds me. I wouldn't wish what those people must be going though on ANY single person on Earth. Even that guy who killed his children recently. It's just horrific and if you're joking about it, and you're over 18 years old, you must be broken.

To 2 posters from Thread 2:

1.) As for "pearl-clutchers," my main point has consistently been the futility of attempted rescue, as is so far proving accurate. But I will add the insanity of boarding the Titan, even given its prior successful dives. It was, as has been proven, simply a matter of time, usually the case where safety isn't top priority.

2.) As for Morse code for SOS, yes, we know. But you unwittingly underscore why the "banging" noises aren't from the trapped.

Wow r31, this is the first time I’ve heard about the migrants drowning…hasn’t shown up in my news feed at all…

They just announced the sub has about 20 hours of oxygen left. In fact let’s assume less. There’s probably shouting, crying, heavy breathing, due to extreme stress. (Assuming hull still has integrity of course.)

The French sent some sort of rescue sub that’s supposed to be there tonight. If they find it, if the rescue sub can immediately extricate it, and if it can ascend, they could be saved. All those things have to happen pretty much RIGHT NOW.

Something I've not seen mentioned, but just having enough O2 may not be the issue. A major problem with unventilated spaces like subs and space capsules is that carbon dioxide builds up very quickly, and becomes toxic. If they have power, they would be pumping the air through CO2 scrubbers, but if not, the CO2 could kill them much sooner than lack of O2. To compound the problem, CO2 is heavier than other gases like O2 and Nitrogen, so it accumulates in a layer on the floor. And guess where these people are? If they lie down to sleep, they could easily suffocate.

R92, I have r91 blocked. I recommend it!

R98 it is beyond exciting, I hope the French succeed, for multiple reasons.

R87 I was just thinking of that and mentioned it to someone last night. The one in 1949 I mean, Kathy Fiscus was the babies name . Yes, although I was not alive at that time my mother told me about it. I said to my brother last night if mom was alive this situation would bring that one to mind for her. She was very much saddened by it. This is a heartbreaking situation as well. I hope things turn out better for these people.

I guess the difference between me and these guys - if I’m to be accused of being lighthearted - is the fact that I didn’t pay to have my life end this way. You couldn’t pay me $250g to go down in one of those things, because I know there’s a likelihood it could become my coffin. Does it give me or others the right to be cruel or insensitive? Maybe not - they still have friends and family who love and will miss them. . But it does give a bit of leeway to make light of the incredible stupidity of it all, plus to be a little upset about the fact that taxpayers are on the hook for trying to find their sorry asses. I hope the least that comes out of this is stricter regulations around these types of vessels and excursions.

R98 would you rescue sub kinda swallow up titan then rise up?

I have zero sympathy nor will I shed a fucking tear for these dumb cunts with too much money.

They saw that fucking tin can operated by a game control and they still went down there. They knew the risks and they wanted to die obviously, so now their wish is granted.

The incredibly irritating thing about the wokesters is how they try to turn anything that’s caught the worlds imagination (as this has) into a lecture moment.

What we’re hearing now is, “oh everyone cares so much about billionaires on a lark, but 500 drowning poor people on an urgent exodus are ignored or blamed. DO BETTER.”

They don’t seem to care how insufferable this makes them, and how it’s likely to backfire and hurt rather than help the cause they pretend to care about.

We accuse the Right of gaslighting but wokesters do it like a champ too:

Why assume we don’t care about the 500 just because we care about the 5? False opposition.

The 500 were already dead when it became news. What are we supposed to be doing for them exactly? Hoping they reanimate?

While I understand they are fleeing poverty, and possibly even starvation and war, they are still invading another country — which is illegal as they’re not gaining entry as the host countries require. (Yes, yes, I KNOW those countries make it too hard.) The 5 were not invading anything.

It’s just example number twelve million of how these poseur progressives are a fucking boat anchor around our necks and a gift to the rightwing. And the worst part is, they don’t really give a fuck about the migrants. The migrants are just a mcguffin that allows them to show how piously virtuous they are — how much more caring they are than YOU are.

Kind of maudlin.. If the vessel is recovered (doubtful) There is small chance that these guys texted their thoughts, and maybe somehow those could be recovered? (Like after you take your phone off airplance mode) I am fucking reaching probably.

However, I DID KNOW that you cannot just "break out of a sub" like the dodo bird above!

No r104, the hope is that the little sub is stuck on something on the bottom. If the French rescue vehicle has those little arms in front, they MAY be able to untangle the trapped sub. The French sub is way too small to swallow anything up. It’s actually about the same size as the missing sub.

As I said a few times, I think a successful rescue is very unlikely. Sadly.

First off, no one is coming out of this alive.

Secondly, the only thing this sad incident illustrates is that Millionaires and billionaires in this world aren’t taxed nearly enough. That people can just piss away $250,000 on a jaunt to the Titanic just shows how fucked up this world is becoming.

Sad that there’s a 19 year old among them, but I feeling very little sympathy.

Is it even possible to go to the light from 3 miles down?

"Titan: Hubris Redux." The story of one billionaire's quest to bring the ultimate Earth-bound adventure to the jaded lives of fellow wealthy men.

Starring Jeff Bridges as the safety expert who tries to convince the submersible company's CEO, played by Steve Carrell, to bring Titan up to safety assurance levels.

I can understand the (ghoulish) attraction if you get a great view and guided tour of the wreck, not crammed in with other people and taking turns for a couple of minutes look out a peephole.

No, r49. They didn't.

R105 Get help. You sound like an absolutely miserable human being.

There's no CCTV from inside the Titan because that's what the $250,000 pays for: an exclusive and private experience.

I have made a few joking comments in these threads, just as I did in the "Dan Motherfuck" and "Grandad tosses baby overboard" threads. But I can't understand the casual way some of you go about wishing these people a miserable demise, just because they have money. That is beyond fucked up.

Did you also comment on cute Cameron and the shark debate R116?

Maybe not to this extreme, but I think we've all done reckless things just for the thrill of it. There are several people I love, very good people, who put their lives at risk recreationally because it's fun. Past a certain point, you learn to assume you'll get out of it alive because you always have. If bad things have never happened to you, it's easy to believe they never will.

What's the litmus test for deciding what the threshold is for deserved sympathy? If someone gets shot in Times Square, do they deserve it because they knew the risks of living in New York? Humor is needed in situations like this but celebrating the ghoulish deaths of a bunch of strangers makes us a part of the problem.

Yes it’s a tragedy, but a woman’s heart is as deep as the ocean.

There’s Got To Be A Morning After.

R120. You’re late to the game. 👀

p.s. they are dead, really really dead.

"I'm getting thoroughly annoyed with the twitter idiots demanding that the search be called off and demanding more be done to rescue the migrants off the coast of Greece. "

Right, it's not like both things can't exist at the same time - continue searching for the sub; do more to rescue the migrants.

There's an update happening NOW

There's Got To Be a Morning After Pill.

This horrific sea misadventure makes Grandpa Drop-a-tot seem like a night out for ice cream with grandma and grandpa! (Well not grandpa because he will throw you off a building or boat!)

I missed thread two (though I'll probably read it later). At this point do they know the approximate location?

Watching the update and they don’t know anything.

lol, r125.

I'm a very long-time DLer.

To this day, I haven't read the Grandpa Drop-a-tot thread.

I just knew it was one of those DL threads that was way, way too much for me, and I've read it all here (except that thread).

Simmer down, MARY/ r95. I think wishing them dead is very different than gallows humor. I've seen both on these threads, and contributed to the latter, frankly because this is among my worst fears and I use humor to combat anxiety.

R128- It was HORRIBLE. Everyone made fun of that poor little girl's looks (Shocker)

To this day I don't know what the fuck that man was thinking.

And the parents ended up seeming greedy and fucked themselves.

And the video proved that the grandpa was lying!

That sums up Grandpa Drop Tot!!!

As a gamer, I wouldn't even use a third-party controller to play Elden Ring, much less control a submarine at the bottom of the Atlantic.

You know, if you don't like what is being said on these threads, you can always scroll right past, frau brigade. FUCK OFF.

Why doesn't the pilot who controls the remote just toggle it upwards to bring them up to the surface? Isn't that how they were supposed to get out anyway? At least if they are on the surface of the water it would be easier to find them.

Oh, spare me your sanctimony, r95.

This IS funny; a huge cosmic, absurd joke and I'll make light of it all I want to.

They assumed the risk of death. I don't need to "wish" for their death.

In a very real sense they wished that did that for themselves:

"You mean if I hand you $250,000, I'll be bolted into a deluxe mini-van and lowered into 12,500 feet of ocean?"

"I'm in!"

And that's what happened.

A billionaire's heart is an ocean of secrets

Darwinism for rich folk. Just more imaginative. I am going to have a Hell of a time getting to them.

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Grandpa Drop-A-Tot. Brilliant!

For this tragedy, how about a poem.

Rub-A-Dub-Dub

Five lost in a sub

They all went down to sea

The wreck of a sunk ship

But they lost their grip

Now they're drifting deep and free

There are places living humans are not supposed to be.

It seems crazy that they can't open it from the inside, but that really wouldn't do them any good. It's not like they could exit the vessel and swim to safety or shimmy on over to a rescue vessel. Also, if there were a latch or door that could technically be released, it probably couldn't be opened with all that pressure.

My panties (like the ocean) also hold MANY untold secrets.

Exactly, r139.

That's why we out-source the danger to robotic implements like drones and underwater cameras.

And, oh, by the way, haven't we littered planet Earth enough?

Now, we've left another junk vehicle down there, too.

Today it was announced that a new tour company was forming. The business model is taking five people down at a time for 500 grand to see the Titanic wreck and an additional 500 grand to see the sub wreck. As a bonus, the tourists will be able to send taps to the sub and by robotic arm write inspirational thoughts on the sub itself. An upgrade will be put into place for safety, an Xbox Controller will be used and a direct line to Microsoft Support will be available.

Do you think they've done a mutiny and killed the guy who built it out of anger? I wouldn't want to be him right now (besides the obvious)!

I am a certified diving instructor; the thought of what they are going through down there is physically suffocating to me. It makes my chest burn.

I cannot imagine what the fucking hell they were thinking when they got in that jalopy. It's fine to joke, and speculate on their motivations, however galactically stupid they seem to us. That's the point I was trying to make in my comment above. But I can't wish death to anyone who wants to live.

R144, Someone farted from a bad breakfast, and there was a mutiny.

I have no sympathy for these idiots.

They are no different than the other idiots begging for death on Mt. Everest every year.

Way too much money in the hands of bored thrill seekers. The same goes for any of the "private" space programs.

The world would be a better place if we had more widespread Darwinism.

R116 - aren't there existing vessels that are made for this sort of deep exploration that are, while not fool proof, at least certified with better controls and thus safer? I don't get why this expedition company - who can charge a mint - is using this relatively rickety vessel.

[quote] Now, we've left another junk vehicle down there, too.

And five junk people

Maybe Shelley Winters can swim through the port hole

All that money and still dumb enough to fork over hundreds of thousands to some sketchy fly-by-night company to take them down in an unsafe vessel. I’ll reserve my sympathy.

I'm really curious about why they lost contact SO quickly - less than two hours.

R152 the whole operation is shit

[quote]Do you think it's now sorta like the movie Alive, about the plane crash in the jungle, except here they're drawing straws for last fucks with the teenager? Maybe that was what the banging sound was?

No, R26, you fucking retard.

R4 if that were the case, dipshit, they could hone in on the feed and they'd be rescued.

I'll bet you were the brightest in your class, weren't you.

There are much safer options, r148, but they're expensive to crew and operate. I can't even imagine how they haven't gotten scooped up in regulatory actions by US/Canadian Coast Gov.

I said in an earlier thread that you're stopped from going over Niagara, but somehow these morons were allowed to charge money for the privilege of being drowned, frozen, or turned into red mist.

R55, according to dipshit R26 you fuck the twink.

I only feel sorry for the kid who was likely following his father. The others were grown men who knew the risks of what they signed up for.

they waited 8 hrs to tell the world they had a problem, that's FUCKED UP.

🐻👑 NEWS!!!

IT'S BEEN LOCATED!!!!

You don’t have to tap SOS anymore, it just has to be a simple but distinctive repeating rhythm, like the song Macho Man.

Hello, the CEO said in a CBS interview that "safety is waste" "You know, there's a limit. At some point, safety is just pure waste. I mean if you just want to be safe, don't get out of bed. Don't get in your car, Don't do anything.,,,"

R148, Because the CEO CHEAPED OUT ON SAFETY, IS WHY.

Dang. Read the threads. Or the news.

So apparently every government and their Armadas are in on the search now. Why? It's not like billionaires pay their share of taxes.

I mean, I get it. TITANIC, the mysterious lure of "Full fathoms five," and all that.

Still and all.

More money than sense.

We should tax the fuck out of them for their own damned good.

Otherwise, they do stupid shit like this.

I don’t know that any country has OSHA type regulatory authority over international waters.

Why can't the pilot just use the remote control to bring them to the surface?

The are multiple international arrangements and agencies with relevant power

"What the submersible incident teaches us about race, class and gender in America"

by D'Andre D'embobio (they/them)

Because the captain is dead. He’s dead because the sub was fatally disabled.

Who is the hysterical queen screaming her tits off about wealthy people and wanting these people dead? Is it one nutter or are there several of them?

Siri query: "Titanic submarine news."

Siri: "Here's what I found for new submarine sandwich shops in your area."

R89 FOR THE UMPTEENTH TIME - David Pogue DID NOT VISIT THE TITANIC ON THE SUB. He was on the mother ship. He visited the SUB ON THE MOTEHR SHIP. AT FUCKING SEA LEVEL.

Bloody hell, Channel 5 don't waste time:

Here is some information on ocean pressure some of you who don't participate in water sports might find interesting.

"If you don't like my asshole comment then don't read the thread," This isn't the asshole comment thread, this is a thread following the missing vessel. Can only speak for myself, but explaining why it's wrong to make a celebration out of a human tragedy (as if it needs to be explained) is done because chronic narcissism and a total disregard for a life beyond one's own is the reason why the world is in the state its in. Lack of human empathy. I care about everyone in this thread just as much as I care about those people who are trapped because we're human beings and there's a core of good inside all of us. Sometimes we have to try to be better than our worst impulses, even on anonymous message boards.

Amazon reviews for the controller:

"The connection between the dongle and the controller is sketch and requires a clear path. Even when using the included extender for the dongle I have been unable to get a secure connection."

"The controller constantly lose connection with the dongle so you'll be dying a lot in your game. Logitech used to make really good controllers but now they're just total trash. The only reason to buy this is to remind you how much better your wired controller is. The controller is bulk and has an extra vibration button that doesn't do anything other than vibrate when you push it by accident looking for the Start button."

"This controller looks and feels great. And that's where the good points end. It drops connection constantly, causing all kinds of annoying accidents and deaths in games. It also won't reconnect when you press a button on the controller half the time, forcing you to unplug and replug the USB dongle to connect. I hate this controlled and wish I'd returned it on day 1."

"Gamepad just stops receiving input periodically, and the 'mode' LED on the top starts blinking. This can be brief, but disastrous while gaming. Unusable as-is. Tried placing receiver right next to gamepad using the included wired extension for the receiver (probably a bad sign in and of itself), tried new and different batteries, checked that Win10 is using latest wireless driver. Same results. Returning."

"The analog sticks fail quickly. I've replaced this controller a few times,for the price, I'd expect to get more than 6 months of infrequent use out of it. The range on the wireless connection is terrible, too."

"Keeps disconnecting less than 2ft away."

And the fraus wonder why we think they’re ruining DL

Are they calling them dead yet? I'm so tired of hearing about this story. I do love the meme that shows a photo of the sub with "Alexa, play Air Supply."

My arms want to cradle PH back to health after he's safely recovered from this mess.

PH and the father and son should take out the enormous billionaire and Stockton. Or at least Stockton. If he wanted oxygen so badly he should have designed Titan better than a redneck fashioning a new addition to the trailer.

Truthfully I'd like to see Stockton face the consequences of his choices up here where we can see him. If I can't have that, then hearing PH describe strangling Stockton will suffice.

What an absolute jackass. If he had any honor he would take himself out.

The kid is probably more panicked about not being able to check his Tiktok and Instagram

[quote] Hello, the CEO said in a CBS interview that "safety is waste" "You know, there's a limit. At some point, safety is just pure waste. I mean if you just want to be safe, don't get out of bed. Don't get in your car, Don't do anything.,,,"

Wow, sounds just like a "we can't live in fear forever" anti-vaxxer/anti-masker CUNT. I'm now glad he's dead, but too bad he suckered some fools to go with him.

I'm your captain, I'm your captain, though I'm feeling mighty sick...

R179 = shut in/weirdo overly involved with this news story

I'm outraged that no trans were seated on this sub. This speaks to disparity.

R167 OSHA type regulatory powers over non-governmental submersible safety standards?

I’m with r151, all that money and still signing up with a sketchy company. Surprised mom let the father and son do this together.

R185, I believe there are international maritime regulators. Hoe effective, I can't say. But someone dropped the ball when letting this piece of shite hit water with paying customers aboard, in my opinion.

But, cruise ships set sail every day, that I personally wouldn't leave shore on.

*how effective

Paul Henry, the presumed pilot, wrote a book about his many dives down to the Titanic. It hasn't been translated from French to English yet...

Nargeolet, 73, is a pre-eminent diver and considered to be the world’s leading expert on the Titanic wreckage and its debris field, which covers 25 square nautical miles. He is director of underwater research for Experiential Media Group, or E/M Group, and RMS Titanic Inc., and has completed dozens of submersible dives to the wreckage site, spending more time there than any other explorer. Known as “Mr. Titanic,” he is thought to be the one piloting the Titan.

Nargeolet was born in Chamonix, France, and lived with his family in Africa for 13 years, completed his studies in Paris and then spent 22 years in the French Navy, rising to the rank of commander, according to his biography on the E/M Group’s website. He led the first crewed expedition to the Titanic in 1987, just two years after it was discovered by an autonomous submersible, and was the first to recover a remnant – a silver plate.

In 2019 he participated in the Five Deeps expedition, exploring the deepest parts of all five of the Earth’s oceans, and breaking the record for deepest submersible dive, at 10,928 metres.

In an interview with the Irish Examiner that year, Nargeolet was asked whether he ever got scared diving 3,810 metres to reach the wreck. He replied: “If you are 11 metres or 11 km 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.”

Last year he published a book, In the Depths of the Titanic. The Daily Telegraph reports that he admitted at the time to sometimes pushing the envelope when diving to the wreck.

“You stand down four, five, six, seven eight hours, which is the longest, and even then you don’t really want to come back up,” he said. “Sometimes I go to the end of the (sub) batteries and sometimes even more than to the end. Indeed, I’ve been told off for doing so several times. Then the resurfacing takes just as long, so one can be down between 10 to 12 hours.”

If it did somehow become tangled with the wreck and the rescue vehicle has to cut away part of it to extricate them, well imagine the outcry.

I guess I don’t get the fascination, not enough to risk your life. It’s only been down there a little over 100 years. It’s not ancient Grecian or Roman. I understand the quest to *find* it but once it was found and surveyed, after that, eh. We know what happened, how it happened. There’s no mystery I don’t think. In a few decades it will have completely disintegrated.

R70 haha. Oh my gosh. You think you sound superior but you're just stupid, sad, and pathetic. Worse than me by far. I never wished death on anyone. You're just a despicable bucket of shit and slime. Rot in hell whore.

What else do we know about Paul Henri? Is he single?

Hot old French papi surely has multiple wives. There was a video where Stockton candidly discussed the business end. Said venture capitalist/ his backers will only fund the Titanic because of its awe factor, not possible to do same thing at "some old reef".

We know Stockton is an ass, but no appreciation for his looks? A younger Mark Harmon could play him.

OMG, here's Paul Henri wearing nothing but a Speedo and driving a boat.

A German adventurer who explored the Titanic wreckage on the same submersible that disappeared has labeled the voyage a “suicide mission.”

“I was incredibly lucky back then,” Arthur Loibl, 60, told German outlet Bild of his hair-raising aquatic adventure.

He undertook the perilous underwater odyssey in August 2021, diving down over 12,000 meters to the famous wreck in the now infamous Titan submersible.

Also along for the descent, which cost Loibl nearly $110,000, were French Titanic expert Paul-Henry Nargeolet, 73 and OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, 61, CEO and founder of the submarine company OceanGate.

They and three other passengers are currently trapped aboard the missing vessel, which is possibly located as deep as 12,500 feet down off the coast of Canada.

“It was a suicide mission back then!” exclaimed the Bavarian entrepreneur, recalling his own journey into the abyss. “The first submarine didn’t work, then a dive at 1,600 meters had to be abandoned.”

Loibl explained that they ended up launching five hours late due to electrical issues — which he suspects is to blame for the Titan crews’ current predicament.

Not only that but right before the voyage, the bracket of the stabilization tube — which balances the sub — tore and had to be “reattached with zip ties,” he said.

Unfortunately, the cramped conditions on board the Titan weren’t exactly reassuring.

“You need strong nerves, you mustn’t be claustrophobic and you have to be able to sit cross-legged for ten hours,” described the aquanaut, who has circumvented Titanic’s remains twice in Titan.

During one of the dives, he even touched down aboard the ill-fated cruise liner.

However, out of all the daredevil’s adventures — flying over Russia in a MiG-29 fighter plane and visiting both the North and South Poles — Loibl says the Titan expeditions were “the most extreme.”

As such, he is praying for the safe return of all parties aboard the sunken sub. “It must be hell down there. There’s only 2.50 meters of space, it’s four degrees, there’s no chair, no toilet,” Loibl described.

The sub — which is carrying British billionaire Hamish Harding and Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his 19-year-old son along with the aforementioned two passengers — has been missing since Sunday and has fewer than 41 hours of breathable oxygen left, the US Coast Guard reported Tuesday.

Power failure.

Titanic survivor Edith Russell was quite the dame: "I'm accident-prone," she said. "I've been in shipwrecks, car crashes, fires, floods and tornadoes. I've had every disaster but bubonic plague and a husband."

She says that the people in the lifeboats worried that the suction of the sinking Titanic would suck them down with it. Why did that not happen?

Bea Arthur should have played Edith Russell in the movie.

OceanGate, indeed! Thread Three: Titan's Thalassic Turmoil

Why did it take so long for these various agencies to start using these robots that can dive even deeper? That should've been the game plan from the jump.

I read that there is a very likely chance they are already dead because you don't need to be in a zero oxygen environment to die of carbon monoxide poisoning.

Also, they aren't down far enough to be mushed to pieces if there was a breech - their lungs would collapse from the pressure though and they'd die nearly instantly.

Pretty sure they're dead by now.

[quote]We know Stockton is an ass, but no appreciation for his looks? A younger Mark Harmon could play him.

Me, too. I find him the most attractive of the bunch.

I watched the Poseidan Adventure last night. I just had a weird urge to.

I fail to see the draw of looking at a rusted piece of shit old ship.

R185, mom is probably happy husband is gone coz now she inherits all the $$$

I would have sucked Titanic survivor Jack Thayer

R203 I think James Cameron's movie has everything to do with the fascination with Titanic in the past 25 years.

That movie was a phenomenon when it came out and it continues to be beloved to this day.

I think if the film had never been made, there wouldn't be this much fascination with Titanic nor the site.

Something funny from the failed Thread 2

Reminds me of the movie INTO THE WILD about that college graduate who went to live in the Alaskan wilderness and died of starvation.

Sean Penn directed and starred Emile Hirsch.

Anyway, that film has become a cult hit and has inspired people from around the world to make the treacherous trek to visit the abandoned bus he lived and died in.

Emile Hirsch lying naked on the bed of that camper would have been very sexy. Though not at death's door like his character

R203 The Titanic was full of wealthy people who took their treasure and jewellery on board. These people who visit the wreckage go diving once they are down there looking for the treasures that they believe are still hidden in the cabins and amongst the corpses.

They don't publicise this of course, but that is how it works.

How likely is it that the families of the victims sue Oceangate? Is it possible to sue if the passengers all signed legal docs acknowledging the risks?

Oh, there are going to be lawsuits!

I’m sure the firm will declare bankruptcy on Thursday.

I just hope Delta Burke isn't as MAGA as her husband is. It would just kill me. I would just lay down and die.

R190, I think people want to visit the Titanic because it's viewed as an almost mythical ship. There's so much symbolism attached to its memory - the hubris of believing man can triumph over nature, social inequality as its most blatant (two thirds of first-class passengers surviving vs. a quarter of third-class), all that decadence ending up at the bottom of the Atlantic - that it seems almost as legendary as the Flying Dutchman. And the fact that it's so inaccessible probably makes it even more tantalising. I would never in a million years have got in that sub, but if you're a thrill-seeker with far more money than sense, I can see the appeal.

Is there cottage anywhere of previous voyages? Or clips of passengers entering the pseudo-submarine? Our local news showed old clips of the inside of the sub and it didn’t look like there were seats. Also, no windows, just small computer screens where the passengers would see what the camera was picking up. Also, the sub was controlled by a knock off PS3 controller.

I don’t get why anyone would choose this experience. It’s not much of an experience at all.

R214, Is Delta Burke on the sub? Did she eat it, thinking it was sub sandwich?

R144- I really don't think so... I think that when you are in that position- in a submarine like that? I frankly think that I would want to die asap. As peacefully as possible. There was probably even some gallows humor- initially...

Again, this is nightmare fuel.

A fucking coffin. Just horrifying-

Stockton Rush sounds like a gay porn star name.

Part of me feels terrible for these people. Another part feels they went on a fool's errand and put themselves in harm's way for no reason, and now a lot of resources are being used to find them.

R217 wins the thread.

And I believe at least one person died in the attempt, R208, so the bus has now been removed from the site.

[QUOTE] I just hope Delta Burke isn't as MAGA as her husband is. It would just kill me. I would just lay down and die.

Burke's husband was hot back in the day. It matters not whether he is "MAGA".

R210 surely it is t possible to dice at that depth?

[Quote]Victor “is not capable of lifting the submarine on its own” but it can help hook the Titan sub to a ship with the capacity to lift it to the surface,

And what does a spool of 3000 metre cable look like and eeigh? It doesn't exist.

The only good thing I've heard about this mess is that there are anti-anxiety drugs on board.

For all that money and you can't even make the trip as comfortable as a first class flight??

It's cramped, you have to sit crosslegged the entire time, no chairs, you pee in a bottle.

Even on trips where everything goes ok, it sounds like hell.

Corpses R210? They all turned to dust DECADES ago.

Can they sue if the dead passengers signed waivers?

Or perhaps more accurately, mud.

I'm surprised the LV maid hasn't been all over this story, with tales of where the Titan was [italic]really[/italic] going. Perhaps now she will be:

[quote]RUSH-Stockton. Of San Francisco, a businessman, actor and entrepreneur. Died New Year's Day at the age of 69 after a brief illness. Mr. Rush was born November 15, 1930, in Philadelphia. He graduated from Princeton University in 1953 and served as a first lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1953 to 1955. He was a board member of Stockdale Oil and Gas. In the 1970s, he and his family moved to New Zealand to create Takaro, a hunting and fishing retreat with an emphasis on conservation. As founder, chairman and executive director of the Recovery Institute, he was a leader in the field of alcoholism education. He was vice president and a longstanding member of the Bohemian Club. Mr. Rush is survived by his wife, Nancy Stewart Rush of San Francisco, and three children by his first wife, the late Ellen Davies; Deborah of PA; Catherine of CT; and Stockton Rush Jr. of Seattle, and two grandchildren. Services will be held at 11 am today at Grace Cathedral, followed by a reception at 624 Taylor Street. Donations may be made to the Recovery Institute of San Francisco, 332 Pine Street, San Francisco, CA 94108 or the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, Rice University, Houston, TX.

Nearly all of the refugees that went down in the Med are Pakistanis from shitsain northern villages who paid $6 k to Egyptian traffickers to make the journey.

Italy absorbed 72k refugees last year and the year before That's a city of homo hating muzzies every year.

Noted deep-sea submersible expert and rapper Cardi B weighs in...

I can’t believe there isn’t a steward serving light refreshments (coffee, tea, water, pretzels), and perhaps some purchasable sandwiches or wraps.

Well Cardi B read the stepson, rather well.

The stepson sounds like a teenager and he's pushing 40

To be fair, R233, do we know what the sole button on the wall actually does? It's possible that it's an undersea version of the Diet Coke button on the Resolute Desk.

This is why throughout life one should always carry a cyanide tablet

Maybe people should just leave that underwater graveyard alone. There's been other incidents of malfunction with submersibles before this. I can't even imagine the horror of being down there in the first place.

Well, thank god they have something tasty to drink r236!

He should've brought his stepson

Lol ^^🤣

"How likely is it that the families of the victims sue Oceangate? Is it possible to sue if the passengers all signed legal docs acknowledging the risks?"

It's always possible to sue. They could sue on behalf of the deceased or they could sue as the complainants themselves. Success isn't certain, but there will be lawsuits.

[quote]Stepson of missing billionaire on Titanic submarine shoots his shot

Pics please.

I feel so reassured now that Cardi B has weighed in on the issue.

There once was a sub that put to sea The name of the sub was the Billionaire Me The guests paid up she dove right down Oh blow my bully boys blow

She had not been two hours from shore When view of a ghostly shipwreck bore The captain called all hands and swore He'd take that sub in tow

When the sub had barely hit the water A wreckage piece stuck out and caught her The lights went out the gamepad fought her When she dove down low

For forty hours and maybe more The line went slack then tight once more All signals lost there were only four But still that search did go

Soon may the Coast Guard come To bring us Oxygen, TP, and rum One day when our tour is done We'll take our leave and go

That wee sub will need a good airing out when it's retrieved

fantastic, R246.

I'll kiss whoever manages to alter the lyrics to Stan Roger's "Barrett’s Privateers" or "Northwest Passage" for this situation.

Someone rework this one

These are the times that try men's souls.

My elderly neighbor: " ...the Hindenburg of the Seas".

I'll tell you what, If I were the owner of this business, and survived, I'd offer every single one of the surviving passengers a 2- for-1 deal on the next visit instead of the refund. Damage control. There's all kinds of deals you can make.

Can they use those things that emit sounds to find them?

R253 sonar?

This is a job for Superman. Or Aquaman.

Airing it out won't be a problem, R247. As seen in the photos, the Titan is equipped with a state-of-the-art Lasko box fan ($24.99, Home Depot) attached with zip ties ($6.25/100, Amazon) to a Rubbermaid storage box ($12.99, Target).

Is it wrong that I'm not really interested in this?

Rich people problems.

So how long before Playstation comes out with a video game? Titanic Dive see if you can survive!

"Can they use those things that emit sounds to find them?"

Office fraus?

R174, So I have this correct, if they are saved they will come back like 2 feet tall?

"This is a job for Superman. Or Aquaman."

I think Aquaman and think he would be offended by the infringement on his jurisdiction.

James Cameron went down to the Titanic many times in a Russian sub which was the real deal.

R258 frankly, I wouldn't be surprised.

They've turned it into an inflatable slide for kids.

If they lost power which seems likely but not certain then they will have lost power to pressurise, no? If so, they're hamburger meat lining the interior walls by now.

Note to self: Repaint our subs yellow.

That reminds me, I was in high school when the Titanic movie came out and working at KB Toys.

The year after the movie came out, we had people coming in looking for Titanic paraphernalia.

Unfortunately, the movie released no merchandise other than two soundtrack CDs, "Making of..." book, replica of diamond necklace, and posters -- neither which we carried.

However, some other company that was making 3D puzzles (remember those?) released a Titanic version and that sold like hot cakes.

At the time as a teenager, I wondered why James Cameron didn't release a slew of Titanic-related merchandise, but I guess it would have been in bad taste.

The French sub that can reach the Titanic arrives tomorrow, so they may still be rescued. They just heard more banging.

Pa Rush's hunting lodge in NZ, which only lasted five years, went on to house a cult after Pa spent all of those five years embroiled in lawsuits against the government. The end came with an auction of everything that wasn't nailed down, including the gold bathroom fixtures.

To large carnivorous see animals, this submarine is like one of those candies with a hard outer shell on the outside and a tasty, gooey inside that explodes in your mouth.

In poor taste, you say?

It's 6PM EST on the fourth day. Can we call it? They're fish food, yeah?

[quote]Only an idiot would even think about doing this in the first place, I'm glad these people are dead. Dumbasses

Comments such as this one from the previous thread make me realize that I would much rather spend my time in the company of billionaires (though not in a tin can at the bottom of the North Atlantic) than with nasty, embittered poors.

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[quote] The French sub that can reach the Titanic arrives tomorrow, so they may still be rescued.

Still hoping this will end somehow, miraculous it might be. We need odd-defying survival story once in a long while.

R272, cool, you can post racist crap on twitter with Elon

Gotta love the snowglobe.

They’re fine. They send their regards.

[QUOTE] To large carnivorous see animals

Oh, dear

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Less than 12 hours of oxygen left.

On the bright side, Titanic 2 will have a MUCH smaller budget!

Oh Kleptora, too soon

R279 you can see the controller at play in that photo.

A good summation of everything so far

They will find them a minute after the captain killed everyone of them to save oxygen.

Just the thought of being locked and sealed in a metal tube that can only be opened from the outside gives me anxiety. And that’s before the thing even starts diving.

Alan estrada is a gay youtuber and i have always found him to be very good looking

Y'all are waitin' around like a pack of vultures. 🦇 Shame!

The autistic step-son is already partying and hiring whores. He'll blow through the billions in no time.

I wish the guy in R284's video was in the submersible. Or just otherwise dead. Oof.

So, if the French sub can reach the Titan by tomorrow morning, 🤔 can they somehow pipe in oxygen/withdraw carbon dioxide? Just checking..

Imagine being a billoinaires stepson and still begging at whores online. Drop 2K in their tip jar

You think they're going to drill a hole in the hull for the air tube, R291?

IT'S THE FINAL COUNTDOWN!!!

Golly gee, can't they send some divers down with some air tanks. Or trained dolphins.

R293 Actually figured there might be a hatch included on the thing, like on campers. My bad

DEAR GOD THE CRINGE

They have about thirteen hours of air left as of 6:30 PM EDT. I don't understand why anyone would think it's a good idea to to take this journey in an experimental vessel.

Seventeen bolts seal the only hatch. With two people working on removing the bolts with removers, it would still take multiple precious minutes. It's entirely conceivable that even if they find them, even if they can bring them up, even if they can get divers with bolt removing equiptment to the vessel asap, the passengers will still die while they're trying to remove the bolts. Every step will take much longer than in other maritime situations, even the very, very last one.

R296 there is one. But think about how much pressure it’s under. It has millions of tons of water pressing down on it. So extraordinary methods have to be used to keep the sub’s hull integrity.

That’s why the hatch is closed by bolts. From the outside.

I'm sick of hearing about it. Silly over -confident rich people with too much money doing dangerous things. Serves them right for turning a tragedy into a tourist spectacle and source of morbid entertainment. Hubris kills.

Just pull up beside them and motion for one to roll down the window. Job done!

It would be awesome if they were saved in the last minute like a hail mary pass in the 4th quarter.

Have they found The Heart of The Ocean yet?

......

R267 But at what time? Originally they said the oxygen would last until 2:30 pm on Thursday but now I've read till 11am on Thursday.

I keep thinking that whenever I turn on the TV I'll see a glorious image of the rescue with PH triumphantly emerging from the capsule.

Oh just die already!

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They will find them a minute after the captain killed everyone of them to save oxygen.

R285 actually, that was my own twist ending, Stephen. Yours originally ending sucked.

Hey bitches- Breaking on CNN-

This bitch is on the case, and the Atlantic Ocean has finally met its match.

Have they found my hard-core nudes yet?

BIG. FUCKING.DEAL

Why don't they put a huge giant chain on the submarines to winch them back up from now on.

Maybe they could sing songs to keep their spirits up!

They do down with a bottle of water and a sandwich or two. The dry toilet uses ziplock bags. It's below zero. And get this. That piece of shit isn't even motorized . It just has to hopefully land near the Titanic. The fuck? And world famous ocean explorers accept this and go down in it?

Something isn't adding up.

Joking aside, of you have to die, it's better than some ways.

When they find the sub and there's a sweaty handprint on the window, you'll know what those banging sounds were.

I’d rather be the captain’s whore than your son!

R317 like what? assuming something burst and they died instantly, slowly running out of air and food sounds pretty damn miserable

R316 What cracks me up is that the sub’s only communication with the ‘mother ship’ is…texting. That and the Playstation controller they use to steer the thing.

Did anyone see Mike Reiss, the Simpsons writer, on CNN just now? He went on that Titan trip 4 times. He’s so creepy and bizarre and his reactions to this was so weird that it caught Erin Burnett off guard. He actually said that Stockton Rush is probably making jokes to help relax the passengers.

That ugly kid in that sub is no one's whore

Spend 250K to know what it's like flying in a commercial plane...in the last row.

R317- Really? Its pretty bad. Even a plane crash is quicker in terms of the length of "emotional toll/pain and suffering"..

Its dark and cold and you are locked into a floating coffin in the dark..

No thank you.

I'd take that over getting shot. I'd take it over a collision with an 18 wheeler. I'd take over a hijacking into the world trade center. I'd take it over actually being on Titanic and freezing to death.

As long as they're like eh you'll just pass out when the oxygen is lost. Or even rapid depressurization would be preferred to a plane crash where some survive.

running out of air...after 4 days in purgatory. Yeah, gimme a bullet thanks.

It all boils down to boys and their toys.

I mean if I was suicidal...

So some takeaways for the next outfit that wants to try something like this:

- 4 weeks of oxygen reserves. - backup systems in place. - back up comms in place. - virtually indestructible communication device. - locator/black box. - must pass board safety regulations below certain feet. -must have insurance give the approval -must have contingency winch tow ship operation in place. - must have been accompanied by independent escort drones in case communication is lost.

I hope the vessel is found...regardless of the outcome. Time is running out. If they're dead, I hope it was quick...as in an implosion.

The stepson Quit trippin in my hood I can say Nigga without the er of course I’m down like that. On the Set!

Tax the rich.

Wendy Rush, the OceanGate communications director and wife of the company’s missing CEO Stockton Rush, is the great-great-grandchild of Titanic victims Isidor and Ida Straus, according to The New York Times.

Isidor Straus refused to take a seat on a lifeboat when women and children were still waiting to get off the sinking ship, and he was joined by his wife Ida, who would not leave his side.

The two were seen standing arm-in-arm on the deck of the liner when it went down

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Wow R333. In the Titanic movies, there was an older couple portrayed...both stayed together to the end. The wife wouldn't leave her husband. I guess that was based on this couple.

The Chinese have a toast "May you live in interesting times".

the 70s? check

the rise of cyber technology? check

the dismantling of the middle and working class? check

9/11? check

pandemic? check

insurrection? check

But, if anybody had told me, even after all of that, that my bingo card includes being a member of a world-wide audience watching what basically amounts to a self-snuff film, I'd have said Get-the-Fuck-Outta-Here.

R333 aren't they modest? You'd never think by looking at them that he and his brother owned Macy's department store outright.

And he was very close advisor to President Grover Cleveland and served in the House of Representatives -- two full terms!

And that's his wife of forty years, named Ida. Sad! She hasn't been well, so the two of them had been wintering on the French Riviera.

Hilarious. It's just too good. Always nice when people get what they deserve. Bahahahahahahaa

My maternal great grandparents also perished together on the Titanic's maiden voyage. We remember them in our Pesach prayers every single year. The first time I went to the Titanic on a submersible I saw their skeletons embracing still at the very bottom of the ocean. The second time I dove, I was able to lay a wreath of water lilies at their feet. L'Chaim!

I wonder if Tom Hanks and Spielberg are waiting, white-knuckled, for this to have a happy ending. Because you know the script is already being written. Might even get John Williams to put off his retirement.

Did they have three days worth of water on board? Humans can live up to a week without food but only 3 days without water.

Arguably the most striking shot from “Titanic” is the older couple portraying the Strauses, clutching each other as their stateroom floods

I fear for the hot daddy.

It's a real rotten shame and it sucks we couldn't have seen the look on their dumb ass faces and that R70 and R272 along with their upvote cohorts weren't invited along on the joyride. We could have gotten rid of almost thirty dumb assholes in one swoop! Hahahahaha.

Some guy on CNN saying that banging for 3 minutes 30 minutes apart is a well-known distress signal in the military and that’s proof they’re still alive and that’s a good thing. To me that just makes it worse if these people are still alive 4 days into this nightmare.

R331 Don't bother to read anything about this. Don't watch the news. Including the many reports that these guys are BANGING ON THE SUB to attract attention. So there has been no implosion. Just pronounce on it and show your complete ignorance.

I just Googled the Mary Celeste to see if they ever found the wreck. They never did, although there was a false alarm in 2001. I wonder if it's still out there somewhere. It was wrecked 27 years before the Titanic sank, and people say the latter will disintegrate within a few decades, so maybe the Mary Celeste is already gone.

What is TWoCs?

Titanic Wreck Original Characters

[quote] The Chinese have a toast "May you live in interesting times".

[quote]the 70s? check

[quote]the rise of cyber technology? check

The Chinese didn’t live through the 70s or cyber technology? They didn’t experience a pandemic?

China is a dumpster fire.

China had political violence.

Why is this story still going? They're all keeled over in the sub by now.

Why does Rose look like RuPaul?

If they're found alive, I'll give up cigarettes and liquor.

They have rescued a submersible in a similar situation before!!

You might as well go on ahead and stock up! Haha

If they are found alive, will they have to spend days in a decompression chamber?

R348 & R349 I thought it stood for The Women of Color, reimagining the Rose character as black.

And.... If a sub goes missing, call the Navy and fringe private sector outfits that have the equipment to do this. NOT the fucking Coast Guard. That's like calling the Baywatch cast. For a sub? A SUB?

The company's insurance should reimburse the expenses for these services, which means insurance should heavily regulate the safety.

There is no script being written because of the WGA strike, but producers are salivating for sure. I agree that Tom Hanks will shoehorn himself into the Stockton Rush role even though he's too fug. I still say a younger Mark Harmon, or Gary Cole with heavy makeup, could have done it. Someone else say Steve Carrell!

Go to CNN now, people!!

“Rudimentary toilet” is a phrase you don’t generally like to hear.

I think we all know it’s time for this.

That's the other thing. You cannot bring them up quickly from those depths if they are alive or they will get the bends. They're dead, Jim.

More likely he's too fat to fit in the can.

R362, fuck. Should I make a drink and grab a smoke first?!?

Just turn on CNN. They can still save them. They once rescued a crew in a submersible with 12 MINUTES of oxygen left.

Nothing happening on CNN

Why is it important to go on CNN? To watch Anderson Cooper play "What could happen?"

Trolling

I heard someone on MSNBC yesterday saying they wouldn’t get the bends in this situation but I didn’t get the full explanation.

There is no search. They're done and everyone knows it.

R345 What guy on CNN said that?

There's nothing on cnn.

But here's a reading on the sub.

No, R370, they had a segment on about previous rescues.

The banging proves that they're still alive. The French sub can absolutely rescue them.

Jackie left on a cold, dark night.

R377 Did they find them?

Does anyone know how long the Titanic survivors were in the lifeboats before they were rescued?

Watch this video Alan did in 2022. People are watching it again, I remember I did and now im watching for a second time.

You gonna see how everything is inside the submarine and how they even lost communication.

They're DEAD. D-E-A-D. Let it go ya freaks. Haha.

All- the banging sounds...

Is it possible that the old french man decided to fuck all the men on the vessel?

Like a big end of life gang bang?

And why haven't these dummies opened up the air hole to get some oxygen!!!!

[quote] What guy on CNN said that?

One of the many ‘experts’ they’ve had on. This guy knows the French guy who’s ex-military and he swears up and down that the banging every 30 minutes is a well-known military distress signal and it has to be the French guy doing it and that’s proof they’re still alive and waiting to be rescued.

Here are the sounds heard every 30 minutes during the OceansGate search.

What this entire episode tells me is that life is short and unpredictable. So eat dessert first.

Hmm it could be banging against something...

[quote]What guy on CNN said that?

It was Per Wimmer.

Let's talk about the stepson who went to a Blink-182 stepson instead of mourning his stepfather. He says the n word online, tells onlyfans hos to sit on his dick, and went to jail for stalking EDM musicians? That guy seems interesting.

There is a live CNN feed on Youtube dedicated to this. Some of you have zero information and digital literacy and deserve to stay ignorant and stupid.

Digital literacy -- is that a thing?

Antphrodite’s psychic reading at r375 inspires

R385 that’s super creepy!

R389 if by interesting you mean asshole, then Yea sure! 👍🏼 He's a stepson. He don't give a fuck about this dead man. Mommy will provide now. Haha. It's just too good!

This whole thing is creeping me out.

[Quote]The company's insurance should reimburse the expenses for these services, which means insurance should heavily regulate the safety.

Lloyds of London refused to insure this fuckery so who would?

Yes digital literacy is a thing.

The gay boy doing the reading is full of shit. He couldn't pick up in his reading that this is not a new sub, and that it has successfully dived to the Titanic several times.

They probably burnt up to oxygen hyperventilating with panic attacks.

During today's press conference it was stated that it's not the case that the noises are coming strategically every thirty minutes so forget about that bit of speculation.

Let's face it. All these entities are flying by the seat of their pants.

I have a feeling they may have died on Sunday. Once it goes off course it’s over. It’s been morbidly fascinating to learn how rinky dink the whole operation is.

R399, I wonder that too

How do they hear banging anyway? Isn't the ocean full of noise and shit?

So are they banging against sub or is this from instruments?

Maybe they are hitting the sides of the Titanic.

☝🏼 that’s actually terrifying to think

I hope they're banging each other. What a way to go.

so many cruel people here on datalounge. I pray for these guys. No one deserves this.

The very definition of pointless butchery! They’re already dead…

I fucked that up didn’t I?! *bitchery

Actually I read the 'record' of the banging is fake, not sure but if it were a true record I would think it would be shared more on an official report, source given, etc but then again what if they are not allowed to do this and it was leaked. Nevertheless, again, the person who recorded it would have to be awfully busy in the search for the submersible and why would they have time to do this. Anyway, here is a thought on it, and after it comes the press conference (just so you don't have to wonder what happens next type of thing) but the banging itself IS real.

Yes, I pray for these guys. R408 is right. The authorities are in touch with these peoples families who are desperate. Is it so hard to have compassion. No one deserves this.

CNN is sending Wolf Blitzer down with a bolt cutter as we speak!

Imagine reading 400+ posts and comment how upsetting they are.

Stop fucking reading

Seeing photos of just how small the submersible is inside made my palms start sweating—I knew it was a small vessel, but I guess it didn't occur to me that it was THAT small. The interior of my Volvo wagon looks bigger. Being trapped in something like that under the vastness of the ocean is a pure nightmare; the thought induces nothing but dread. And for what? If you want to see the Titanic wreckage, there are plenty of videos that have been recorded that you can watch from the safety of your own home. If you want the "experience", make a blanket fort and blast your air conditioner while you watch it from your laptop. It's just not worth the risk.

Whether they live or die we need a "Let's Cast 'Submusicle: The Submerisible Musical'" thread.

"So are they banging against sub or is this from instruments?"

Dorothy: "Yes, Rose, they have a tuba and steel pan drum down there."

Rose [finally getting her comeuppance]: "I meant scientific and/or communication instruments - cunt."

The laptop screen plays the Titanic movie on the way down.

What if like only one person is dead from freaking out and having a heart attack and he's in there with them?

The comments on the two previous Bear King threads have had me pissing laughing!

I don't understand why people are clutching their pearls over this. I mean, one they're rich assholes, two this is like the stupidest as fuck way you could die. I don't feel sorry for them. They shouldn't have been there in the first place.

R415 here. Clearly I meant "Submusical."

R416, Lmao 🤣

R418 What if it's like the end of Beef and they're having the most oddly connected and beautiful moment of their lives?

We'll never know.

Or will we?

Not even a call to Ethan Hunt? He specializes in this sort of shit.

Just the suffocating air in that floating coffin must be insufferable- All of that worry/stress/existential madness- the likelihood of impending death- In what looks like a 4' by 9' area-

It is truly a nightmare.

May these men go as peacefully as possible.

The chance of a rescue is nill.

I am telling you right now, the idea of being the final one alive in that tomb is just horrifying. Especially of it's the boy or the dad. The others have some kind of experience or military background- this thought gets me.. (Don't know if everyone would die around the same time, or what)..

I keep waking home hoping to see good news

They're rich and possibly assholes and it's an entirely needless expedition. But, I still feel sorry for them.

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R428

Are you suffering from oxygen deprivation?

Well they must think there is SOME chance of a rescue because all these countries and emergency ships, robots, man power, that is quite a lot of money and I don't think it would be going on if they really thought there is no chance for rescue.

Using Midjourney to create alternate Jack Dawsons

[quote]Does anyone know how long the Titanic survivors were in the lifeboats before they were rescued?

The Carpathia arrived at the area where the lifeboats were at about 4 a.m., an hour and 40 minutes after the Titanic sank. The process of getting all the passengers from the lifeboats onto the Carpathia took until about 8:30 a.m.

I assume that there was very little worry. They were assured they were fine, regardless of the malfunctioning equipment, by their overly confident captain. They were assured they were fine by the ridiculous price they paid for this excursion. They were sure they were fine, even as they suffocated to death, that they would be rescued shortly because they are ridiculously rich and important.

They died peacefully.

I can't feel too sorry for people that have so much money to frivlously through away on something like this rather than helping the less fortunate. Bon Voyage, you reap what you sow!

R432

It's for appearances only. No one wants to be thought of as the heartless cunt-try.

R380 literally everyone knows. It's been extensively documented. And they had...you know, oxygen.

How do you know they didn't help the less fortunate, R436?

The Simpsons writer said he went down 4 times. Who the fuck needs to do this 4 times?

R326, as I mentioned earlier, it's not a matter of running out of O2 and passing out peacefully. You'll be fighting carbon dioxide, which is extremely unpleasant. To get an idea, try breathing under the covers. You'll be gasping for breath after a minute or so. That's because even though there's still plenty of oxygen in your breath and the air beneath the covers, you body is triggered by the high concentration of CO2 to think you're drowning (which you are). It would not be peaceful.

So much fun

R427 if lack of oxygen is what kills them, I imagine they would all die within minutes of each other, unless 1 or more of the members has a preexisting breathing issue causing him to die faster

R58,No. Yours is visual; the series of r57 is aural.

R177, You ought to review your German. I'm pretty sure your revulsion should be directed towards some Herren.

The attention whoring is ramping up. Just saw a Canadian First Nation Chief from Nova Scotia on TV asking First Nation people to pray for Titan's safe return.

Can we please get Miss Celine Dion on camera and behind a.mic for her thoughts as well?

Has anyone reached out to Kate Winslet for comment?

R322 the fact that he was shrugging everything off as no big deal everything will work out was so bizarre. These people have just several hours left of oxygen before they die unless they're found soon

R446- Stiff Celine performed My Heart Will Go On during the telethon earlier in week.

When she did the chest pump at the end, she broke in half.

Beth: "Buck would never die in a submersible."

[Everyone's thoughts]: "Buck fucking died on a regular sailboat not even that far from shore."

Wonder if there will be a documentary on how slow to act everyone was. If it sets future precedent, regulations.

R447 there's no Oscar bait role for me in this sausage fest. Thoughts and prayers.

I hope everyone stays safe out there tonight. The money spent on retrieval efforts is one thing, but search and rescue is dangerous enough on dry land. All those people are risking their lives for those guys.

I don't see the problem on rich people expending their money, at least it pass to others and it's not just in the bank. It's not like it was a submarine tour or donations to the red cross. When they die their money will divide too. Good

Yeah it will divide into the dumbass stepson who will use it for a whole lot of good, I'm sure. Like supporting OF whores and subsidiaries for aging punkrock bands.

Wish we'd hear more on if this robot has gotten out there.

[quote]I can't feel too sorry for people that have so much money to frivlously through away on something like this rather than helping the less fortunate. Bon Voyage, you reap what you sow!

I love how all the poors on this thread, green with envy, comfort themselves with their empty and unjustified feelings of moral superiority.

R102 my mother used to talk about the Kathy Fiscus failed rescue.

My parents were newlyweds and they bought their first television set to watch the live news feeds about the rescue. Even after all these years, she would get very sad when she talked about it.

R459 that same accident happened last year in spain to a child as well

So they paid big bucks to travel inside a death trap.

I don't see how this thing is any better than being packed into an Indian railcar.

R459 I played Radio Days for my mother and when they got to the part about 'Polly' my mother immediately knew what that really came from. She remembered it and told me about it, I could feel from her how deeply that was felt, still remembering after so many years, so clearly and then they found out the little girl didn't make it. She cried watching that movie, said it perfectly captured those days. I sincerely hope these people are saved, I know it looks bad for them and I know if the ending is bad I will feel bad for them like mom and like everyone back then did about that poor little girl.

Well I'm going to bed. I hope to wake up to good news.

R459 at 8:20 he talks about Baby Jessica

[quote] I just Googled the Mary Celeste to see if they ever found the wreck. They never did,

Another ship found her sailing in good condition but without a crew so took her as salvage and sailed her to Gibraltar. The Admiralty Court suspected the salvaging ship had murdered the missing crew but lacked proof.

The Dei Gratia received only one-sixth of the Mary Celeste’s $46,000 insurance policy. Each Dei Gratia crewman walked away with around $830, adjusted for inflation.

The cargo—1,701 barrels of industrial alcohol—was still there, save for nine barrels in the hold that were empty. One of the ship’s pumps had been dismantled and there was a bit of flooding (about three and a half feet of seawater) in the cargo hold.

A six-month supply of food and water remained.

The log book was still there, with a final entry dated 8 a.m., November 25. It gave the Mary Celeste’s position at the time, six miles northeast of Santa Maria, easternmost island of the Azores—close enough to see land.

Perhaps more noteworthy is what was missing. All the people were gone, of course. Captain Briggs’ sextant, chronometer, and navigation book were all missing, as well as the ship’s register. This suggested an orderly abandonment of the ship—Briggs had at least enough time to get below deck and collect his navigational equipment before hitting the lifeboat.

As for the Mary Celeste in November of 1884, she was sailed right into a reef just off the coast of Haiti; wrecked by a crooked captain who was trying to scam his insurance company. He was charged with fraud and died soon after.

CNN played up MH370 for MONTHS long after all hope was lost. They're going to do the exact same with this. This has all the makings of a great cable news ratings buster:

1. Countdown clock of oxygen. Check. 2. Billionaires in trouble where their money get them there and can't get them out. Check. 3. Corrupt corporation doing corporate things. Check. 4. A computer with a game control running the show. Check. 5. Military from multiple countries bleating "international cooperation". Check. 6. Banging noises bring unrealistic shards of hope. Check.

CNN is going to play this for months. They'll still be talking about it at both Canadian and American Thanksgiving.

[quote] CNN played up MH370 for MONTHS long after all hope was lost

Led by Don Lemon

Has Richard Quest been called in yet?

𝗦𝘂𝗻𝗻𝘆 𝗛𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗝𝗼𝘆 𝗕𝗲𝗵𝗮𝗿 dance on the graves of the divers.

Whoopi Goldberg provided an unexpected voice of calm and reason after her View co-host Joy Behar claimed 'incompetence, stupidity and hubris' were to blame for the Titan submersible disappearing.

Behar made the comments on Wednesday as the panel discussed the search for Titan, the tourist vessel that has been missing since Sunday morning with five people on board, including a 19-year-old.

As fellow host Sunny Hostin tried to explain why adventurers choose to take such risks, Joy was not having it.

'It's interesting because the Titanic itself that went down because of human incompetence and stupidity and hubris, and same with this,' Joy said, referring to the 1912 sinking of the ocean liner. 'That's the irony - they're going to see the same thing that happened to them. It's sad and scary.'

A seemingly uncomfortable Whoopi then gave her measured comments about the vessel fiasco.

'I'm just going to say a prayer for everybody,' the Oscar winner said. 'That's where I'm at with it. That's as far as I can go with this. We go from there. I don't need to compound it.'

Joy added that while she has a hard time understanding 'physical risks,' she has done other risky things like 'getting up in front of audiences drunk at 2 in the morning.'

'That's a risk that I took,' said the former stand-up comedian. 'You try doing what I do at 2 in the morning.'

Bizarrely, Behar went on to liken the disaster to driving the New Jersey turnpike at 2am, when she claimed the busy road was full of drunk drivers.

^ Oh, please, what they said is a lot less harsh than some of the things posted here

Joy's right and she should say it.

R466 they'll find them faster. They're not sweeping lines of longitude and latitude across the Pacific, the size of several Australias.

It's the size of CT, 2.5 miles down. They'll find them but had an organized search effort been in play from the start I still don't know they could have been saved in a week.

I'm guessing they find it Tuesday or Monday. Takes a long day or two to pull up.

What do you think the 5 humans are going through?

Humming Nearer, My God, to Thee both as a call back, and as a way to ask for divine forgiveness for the brutal murder of Stockton Rush they committed a few hours ago.

Please refer to my Fourth Circle, r474

I wonder if they’ve resorted to drinking urine.

6 hours left....

When were they supposed to come back to the surface? They had to have enough water for that amount of time and probably a little extra.

The two possible scenarios, in my non-expert opinion:

1. They became entangled somehow with the wreck

2. They imploded

The two possible scenarios, in my non-expert opinion:

1. They became entangled somehow with the wreck

2. They imploded

As the bodies swell with gases, could that raise the sub to the surface?

It was only intended to be an 8 hour trip. That vessel was never intended to be underwater for several days. I hope they at least find it for closure.

The odds look increasingly thin. While the French navy have sent their super duper deep sea robotic sub that could save our intrepid billionaires, any chance of success would rely heavily on the US and Canadian navies to have precisely located Titan when the French ship Atalante arrives on location. Which still isn’t the case. Basically Titan is fucked.

I thought it took 12 hours to get to the wreckage. I might have read an article wrong or they were talking about a different submersible voyage.

Why can't the pilot just remote control the thing up to the surface? Isn't that how they were supposed to get back anyway? Just push the toggle upward...

Don't you think he would have done that if possible, R486?

The sub started the trip at 8am ET and was expected to resurface at 3pm but contact was lost an hour and 45 minutes after it dived.

Even if the rescue ROV was able to reach them, wouldn't they still have to ascend slowly? Then unbolt the hatch? I hope they can be found and rescued, but it certainly doesn't look good.

[quote] Why can't the pilot just remote control the thing up to the surface? Isn't that how they were supposed to get back anyway? Just push the toggle upward…

Logic and reason would suggest that if he could, he would.

It’s unfortunate they waited so long to contact the Coast Guard. Probably because they were so used to it malfunctioning.

Here is a link to Marine Traffic.com. It shows The Atalante is about 15 miles north of the Polar Prince, both maybe about 400 miles SE of Newfoundland. Maybe they'll locate something overnight.

NBC NOW is reporting the tapping is S.O.S (UNconfirmed by the military).....(7:37)

[quote]contact was lost an hour and 45 minutes after it dived.

Then it possibly imploded before it reached the wreck site (it's my understanding it takes 2 hours).

Why was the thing always malfunctioning and losing contact with the top?!

I guess it wasn't a very bossy bottom, r495.

Lol^^

In this video, you can see what the interior really looks like. With two people aboard, it seems alright. Five people, not so much..... Segment starts at around 15 minutes

The tick-tock of the clock is starting to wear on me.....

The knocking sounds have been identified....

It was Ursula the Sea-Witch crooning "Poor Unfortunate Things."

Less than three hours

Why do idiots keep asking widely reported details?

What is the Titanic, r502?

How long will it take to finally bring it up 2.5 miles....?

2 hours and 8 minutes to go. Our Father who art in heaven....

Follow along here at Twitter for up to the minute play-by-play. Victor 6000 will be our first hero robot if they pull this off. Good information here.

[quote]Less than three hours

Oh, dear.

As much as they seemed to cut corners I wouldn't be surprised if Titan did NOT have oxygen tanks like they claimed (or were supposed to).

[quote]The attention whoring is ramping up. Just saw a Canadian First Nation Chief from Nova Scotia on TV asking First Nation people to pray for Titan's safe return.

He's the Chief of Miawpukek First Nation, the part-owners of the Polar Prince.

"Less than three hours" is correct, R508. It's taking into account both hours and minutes. "Fewer than three hours" would be correct only if hours were all you were counting (as in one, two or three hours).

R509, that would be ironic, given that they visit a wreck notorious for its lack of lifeboats

[quote] The tick-tock of the clock is starting to wear on me.....

On YOU?

Riddle me this:

What do you call 5 billionaire assholes at the bottom of the sea?...

R458 has no concept of what a billion dollars means in reality. It is not mere "wealthy," never mind the more common "rich."

Some comic relief from the late Dame Edna:

“You know, Madge wanted to be in that film, the Titanic. Well, she would — she looks like something you’d find at the bottom of the sea. Talk about a sunken chest!”

sadly we're nearing the time limit

they probably do but I hope the 5 guys don't have a watch or some way to countdown how much oxygen they have left. That would be torture to know you have a set time to live

and of course that's not even considering someone may have been so stressed out as to suffer a heart attack.

Boeing on Stockton Rush: "We don't know her."

[quote]Boeing was not a partner on the Titan and did not design or build it.

University of Washington on Stockton Rush: "We don't know her."

[quote]To clarify and expand upon yesterday’s statement, the University of Washington’s Applied Physics Laboratory initially signed a $5 million research collaborative agreement with OceanGate, but only $650,000 worth of work was completed before the two organizations parted ways. That collaboration resulted in a steel-hulled vessel, named the Cyclops 1, that can travel to 500 meters depth, which is far shallower than the depths that OceanGate’s TITAN submersible traveled to. As stated earlier, the Laboratory was not involved in the design, engineering or testing of the TITAN submersible used in the RMS TITANIC expedition.

Fucking CEO too cheap for a pinging locator device to locate them. Unreal.

For F's sake, even my Mini 3 drone has a more expensive controller than a 30 dollar play station remote. Typical drone controllers with a screen start around 300. And if you want the pro version around 1,200. They have a range of around 5 miles. Why didnt they use something like that if they were going to use something off the shelf?

A cheap Bluetooth controller with a 30 foot maximum range is not something I would consider reliable. Asking for trouble and they got it.

As a practical matter even if they can find the lost sub they can't get it to the surface with the amount of air that remains.

It’s an eerie way to die because I imagine it as being unborn: first you descend into complete darkness while in a vessel surrounded by water, eventually losing your identity and regressing into a fetal position towards the end, but instead of a womb, it’s a tomb.

It’s time to get #Victor6000 WET! Dive, dive, dive!

It's almost worse if they just barely miss saving them.

It's game over. The CEO was a fucking tool. 112 years ago they learned NEVER drop the ball on safety at sea. And what do we have here? Similar scenario with death resulting.

Does this increase the number of Titanic victims by five?

[quote]It has been hard to know whether it is OK to make fun of the rich people here, who willingly hurtled themselves to the bottom of the ocean for the experience, or the story, or the price tag. It is sad and quite haunting that people might die on a submersible lost at sea. It is actively painful to think about what the conditions in the sub must be like right now, or what it would be like to be a family member wondering after a loved one on board. It feels like: Yes, this is newsworthy, but also, the live blogs, the oxygen countdowns in the headlines, the breathless coverage of the price tags—should we be watching this? Then the update—there was banging heard in the general area where they suspect the sub may be. They may be rescued yet. It feels like a snuff movie, in real time.

Do you think they died all at the same time? I know they are in the same air chamber but some people have things like heart issues, lung issues, etc. Imaging if they go first, lose their bodily functions and you are still there smelling all that shit knowing you are going to die that way.

r528 one of the passengers was 77. I imagine, if they ran out of oxygen, he went first.

Death is ugly and disgusting. I've seen lots of it. It is/was definitely a little chambers of horrors down there.

Haha. I love that for them.

The crew waiting eight hours to call for help, makes me think the either it was a common occurrence to lose contact, or the crew hates the CEO.

And rich people love cheap thrills like this one.

I can't breathe!

Can they bill what's remaining of his company to pay for all the millions of dollars of public resources just to look for a hand full of rich people?

[quote]Death is ugly and disgusting. I've seen lots of it. It is/was definitely a little chambers of horrors down there.

Ugh, I hope they imploded instead and died instantly.

Imagine if only the 19-year-old survives.

It's possible, young people have amazing resilience in extreme environments. That's why we send young men off to war and not old farts. Although this particular young man looks more like blob of dough turned sourdough starter.

Less than 30 minutes of oxygen left.

For the first third of the film, he is too traumatized to speak

I hope the French military daddy had the foresight to kill everyone with his strong bare hands and save oxygen for himself. He is the only person on that sub I care about.

FACT----->>Once they start kicking off the bodily functions will discharge. So that's going to be gross for whoever is still alive having to deal with that smell.

R536: Well....having been trapped in a small, dark tube with his dead father & three other dead bodies, I imagine he'd be pretty FUCKED UP for the rest of his life.

Is Dick Clark coming back from the dead to do a dramatic countdown at 10:59 GMT?

The rest of his life is the next thirty minutes, apparently.

So, even if they are dead, they will bring it up. Most likely with a long cable and a remote ROV to hook it to the sub at one end. Rolling in that cable yanking that thing up it will be vertical, spinning twist mixing all those bodies and expelled fluids in the process. Can you imagine the guy that has to open that hatch?

Captain Idiot---->> "We have 4 oxygen tanks in this sub"

Reality-------->> One tank that hasn't been checked since 2021. Wait and see.

BEARKING ....US Navy now says the oxygen supply will last until NOON!!!

I wonder if fights broke out. You have several know it all billionaires in a small chamber for several days all blaming each other most likely. All giant egos I bet.

MARY r547!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Didn't Sartre write a play about this?

It's over. Only They haven't even found it yet, and even if they had, it's outside the oxygen window in terms of how long it will take to bring up and to open.

If one of them killed the others early on and is using the extra oxygen tanks, he’ll last longer than noon. Maybe a whole extra day or two!

Look like the found it..from the Victor 600 Twitter feed...

I have been saying for 2 days = Why not QUADRUPLE your chance of survival and just off the other 4 people? Your telling me Captain Idiot didn't hide a knife anywhere in this underwater coffin?

The billionaire looks like the guy who is frantically rewriting his will all over the walls of the sub.

r553 Link? Because if that is true then they found it only one hour too late.

Ocean craft congregating/ rushing to one spot. Imminent release of rescue drone...

Why are people so obsessed with this? I’m sorry, but this is so stupid to me. These men did this to themselves. Why are we also obsessed when these billionaires just killed them selves. And yes, they killed themselves because they knew this was a high risk. Everyone said so.

Meanwhile, over 500 people died on the coast of Greece and get the news is not covering it at all. Why? Because everyone is so obsessed with billionaire assholes who have too much money they don’t know what to do with it, and they killed them selves.

So help me I am going to PUKE if these idiots are rescued after all of this. The old fat one probably kicked off days ago from a stroke.

r559 if they news isn't covering it, then pray tell, how did YOU know about it?

Where are our Alien overlord/visitors, to save them??? Obviously, they have the technology to do so!

People envy the super rich and want to be rich as well. Also the Titanic is a cultural icon in several Western countries, and anything related to it attracts immense interest. Nobody wants to be a destitute illegal border jumper or cares if they disappear. Does that answer your question?

The 500 trying to invade Greece in order to rape and pillage the EU/UK benefits system ALSO KNEW it was a high risk venture, and by the way, it costs 10,000 cash per person, so they weren't poor either. The people coming in the boats are able to afford that in CASH, when most people in the US don't even have $1000 in their bank accounts.

Shut the fuck up, r559.

1m JUST IN: Submersible robot "Victor 6000" deployed in search for lost Titanic submarine, Titan.

Maximum depth - 6,000 meters

the 10,000 cash was their life savings nimrod. Most Americans have a house worth 10 to 50 times that amount. Not to mention cars 4 times that amount.

This is a nail-biter r565!!!!

FUCK...I hope they all froze...

Of course the Rich people are going to get rescued at the last minute. What. The. Fuck.

Actually, I hope just the CEO survives so he ends up having to pay for the whole damn thing and goes to jail for the lives lost. No waiver is going to hold up in court with that 30 dollar play station remote thing for starters not to mention the warnings from other marine officials that what he was doing was unsafe and unregulated.

From CNN....Investor says the submersible "is designed to come back up" after 24 hours. um..Who is going to tell him it's been four days?

Why are people hoping they're dead? They were stupid and reckless. They're not a bunch of paedophiles or serial killers (well, not as far as we know.)

I bet the CEO was the cool-headed one, because he had dived several times before and it was his own contraption.

^ and yet he had no contingency plan for something like this. So cool...

They put a lot of other people in danger just looking for them. R572. I am sure resources were diverted from other rescues.

4 days of poop and piss from 5 guys in a small air tight capsule. I am sure it was a lot of fun.

It’s theater, people. There’s no way humanly or robotically possible to retrieve an object of that size from the ocean floor at that depth.

I know that, R575, and obviously they've caused a hell of a lot of trouble, but I still don't want them to die (although I think rescue is virtually impossible at this point).

R577 how do you mean?

Well a lot of people get their news exclusively from DL, R502.

R577..I hope you are right. The truth is if a couple of them kicked off because of hypothermia that extends the oxygen for those left behind. IF they survive I will be heartbroken. I am just so invested in their doom. Can't I have anything?

Times up now - sorry billionaires!

A lot of people get their news exclusively from DL, R502.

This is a MUST WATCH:

Here is the Frenchman, who seems to be a decent, intelligent, rather nice chap, earlier explaining to an interviewer what would happen if something went very wrong on the Titan: death by hypothermia. He notes that this is a "rather pleasant way to die."

He seems he would have been interesting to know. I hope he was right and that they died exactly the way he describes in this clip.

We need a new thread!!!

More importantly, r584, he is a HOT DADDY!

Death by hypothermia -- isn't that how a lot of Titanic passengers died?

new thread below to continue this

Will Dylan Mulvaney be "celebrating" the dead people with another make-up ad?

Down to the final hour per GMA....tick, tock...

I don't get the DL love for the Frenchman.

IMO, the CEO is the conventionally attractive one. A true silver fox.

Wonder if the search will continue, even after the window of time for oxygen has lapsed?

yes, it will be to recover the bodies.

Why don't they have a burial at sea?

I hear that hypothermia creates a paradoxical sensation of heat which causes people to undress. Maybe their final moments will be naked with that hot French daddy. There are far worse ways to die.

how many hours/oxygen left?

I wonder if any of the survivors did the Luke Skywalker sleeping bag thing with the deceased.

SOMEONE START A NEW THREAD

part IV

Done r599