Submersible Titanic Tourist craft goes missing

What you did there, I see it.

 

I would never go that low either

 

I had a sinking feeling it would come to this.

 

Y'all with the jokes have sunk to new depths.

 

If the Titan is searching the ruins of the Titanic; what will search the ruins of Titan?

 

They must of had a catastrophic event, like an implosion. Otherwise, they would have used the ballasts to surface if anything manageable went wrong.

 

I'd say this, or they got stuck in the wreckage somehow. Catastrophe seems most likely IMO

 

I hope for their sake it was catastrophic and thus quick.

 

Anyone on board piss off Hillary or Putin?

 

Not a navy guy, but How in the world does that submersible not have an extremely loud transmit only sonar ping capability for emergency? Like and ELT on a plane. Run it on a battery. Can’t be that complex or expensive.

 

The CEO saw safety features as too much of a sunk cost.

 

You guys on a roll

 

Been hoping there is a miracle and they can be brought up alive. Really doubt it happens, but think what a great movie it would make. Don’t forget about the miracle of the kids in the cave that flooded. That rescue was against all odds, too.

 

If it was catastrophic they wouldn’t be banging. This is so depressing. The company shouldn’t been in operation and the customers should have done a modicum of due diligence. CNN interviewed a guy scheduled to go who called it off for that very reason. Off the self parts no safety cert and a freaking game controller for steerage. That’s probably the issue right there. That or a pissed off right whale.

 

Battery dead in nintendo controller, squid ate the antenna, methane explosion in the toilet?

I wonder if there were any redundancy with manual safeties or all fly by wire.

 

Horrible to contemplate but I would think that as CO2 levels increase you would just go to sleep.

 

I really hope this was sincere and not the way it comes off…

***edit…it was the way it comes off/posts after sadly confirm***

 

Yep, pretty dark humor.

 

We don’t know if the banging is actually them.

Supposedly they had redundancies to resurface the sub (someone above suggested 7 layers of systems?), which is obviously concerning that it didn’t work. I would hope part of the redundancy is a manual mechanism. But again, if that was the case they’d have been spotted floating on the ocean surface by now, not pinging in the depths. If everything was relying on a video game controller… well.