Submersible Titanic Tourist craft goes missing

Guess it depends on the food/water supply.

 

Where there is life there is hope.

 

Yeah I’m just gonna have to disagree. There will most certainly come a point where they realize it’s over and it will be excruciating.

 

One of the people onboard, Hamish Harding, was on a Blue Origin spaceflight last June.

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I was initially cautiously optimistic. The more I've read, which isn't that much to be fair, has left me very pessimistic that they're alive.

 

The missing Titan submersible, by the digits


5: People the truck-sized sub can accommodate, comprising 1 pilot and 4 crew. A Pakistani businessman and his son are aboard the submersible. So is Hamish Harding, a British billionaire and explorer. The other two passengers are believed to be Paul Henry Nargeolet, a former French navy commander, deep diver, and a submersible pilot, and OceanGate chief Stockton Rush

$250,000: Cost of a seat on the submersible

8 days: How long the complete journey lasts

4,000 meters (13,123 feet): Maximum depth the submersible reaches to view the Titanic, which sits at 3,800 feet

2,000 feet: The maximum depth of the underwater vehicle the US Navy uses for rescuing people from submarines

900 miles: How far the area of focus for the rescue operation is from the US east coast (430 miles away from Newfoundland in Canada)

20,000 feet: The depth CURV-21, which the Navy uses to salvage objects from the sea floor, can reach but it only has a lift capacity of...

...4,000 pounds: That’s way less than the 20,000 pound Titan submersible

70 and 96 hours: How long the oxygen supply on the vessel is thought to be able to last

50: Test dives the Titan had undergone, including to the equivalent depth of the Titanic, in deep waters off the Bahamas, as per OceanGate

1 hour and 45 minutes: How far into its dive Sunday (May 18) the submersible lose contact with its support vessle, the Polar Prince, according to the Boston Coast Guard, which is leading the search operation

17: Number of bolts with which the crew closes the hatch from the outside. “There’s no other way out,” CBS’s Pogue had reported

$19.8 million: How much funding OceanGate has raised in two rounds since it was founded in 2009, according to Crunchbase


Everything you needed to know about OceanGate's Titan submersible was discussed in a 2022 CBS news piece

 

250k to be stuck like sardines in a barrel for 8 hours? Clear example of some people having too much money for their own good.

 

Looks like nothing but they reported a sound.

Missing Titanic submarine live updates: Noises heard, search continues

 

7 different systems to resurface the sub even if the occupants are incapacitated. That says a lot about their chances unless they are floating on the surface undetected.

More people have been in space than they have been to those depths. Another striking fact putting their situation into perspective.

 

From what I've read it sounds like they don't yet have a submersible in the water to even attempt to retrieve them. Not enough time. It's over.

Now its just a matter of if they are ever able to retrieve the vessel. I'm gonna guess no. Their bodies will probably be well preserved in there given the lack of oxygen and the temperature.

 

Assuming it's intact.

 

Sadly, you have to locate them first. Everything I'm reading says you can't search on the floor, you have to find them from the surface, then drop a submersible like an elevator.

 

By the way we have 2 man submersibles that go to the bottom of the deepest part of the the ocean - The Challenger Deep. It's made for an American deep ocean explorer, and it's made of 4 inches think Titanium.


Victor Vescovo: Deepest dive by a crewed vessel


For most people, climbing a mountain would be the pinnacle of their adventuring lives. But for retired US Navy officer-turned private equity investor Victor Vescovo, striking “climb a mountain” off his bucket list was never going to be the end of the story.




Victor Vescovo: Deepest dive by a crewed vessel

 

Why wouldn’t they be able to search on the floor? That’s how they found Titanic in the first place.

 

I wonder what happens to this company. All the passengers signed crazy person waivers but you gotta think they will still get sued and this incident will be very bad for business.

 

The CEO is on the sub, I think its over, even if they miraculously rescue the guy.