Looks like The Titanic killed a few more people

[sdifox]

Tourist sub going down to look at Titanic wreckage is missing. I am assuming all is lost.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/titanic-submarine-missing-search-1.6881095

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

Tourist sub going down to look at Titanic wreckage is missing. I am assuming all is lost.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/titanic-submarine-missing-search-1.6881095

Saw that too. A few days of air supply (more if they go all hunger games), but outlook is pretty grim.

 

[hal2kilo]

Losing comms just a hour and a half or so into the dive without an emergency surface is not a good sign. There's always hope.

 

[sdifox]

It's 3800m down.

 

[igor_kavinski]

Paying $250,000 for a suicidal expedition???

Should we even feel sorry?

 

[KMFJD]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1670826522138091521

i'm not claustrophobic or anything but i would not get into that

 

[pcgeek11]

You would have to be a fool to go down in that cobbled together piece of shit. And I spent 20 years ridding on Submarines.

Listen to the disclaimer in the video that the dude signed in order to go on the trip.

 

[KMFJD]

There are real subs that do go down that far that are certified, Gabe Newel is part owner of the company that makes them

DSV Limiting Factor - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

It's been to the deepest part of all the oceans, many decents into the Mariana's trench

 

[Pens1566]

Play stupid games ...

 

[Geven]

They still haven't found it yet but I hope they do. There's a guy abroad who's been on more than 35 dives to the Titanic wreck site before so they definitely do have experienced people on board.

 

[theeedude]

This is like people who die on Everest. There's so much fun stuff to do with life that's not that risky. 🤷

 

[Hans Gruber]

I do not understand why people are not happy with remote submersibles with 4k cameras showing the Titanic? They've mapped the Titanic and created 3D renderings as well. Why would anybody go down that far on a civilian funded mission? This whole thing looks like a Darwin award winning operation.

 

[igor_kavinski]

There's a guy abroad who's been on more than 35 dives to the Titanic wreck site before so they definitely do have experienced people on board.

All the experience in the world can't do anything when faced with a serious technical malfunction. They really should have had the sub tethered to a really strong and long cable with which they could communicate with the ship on the surface so they could get pulled in, in case of emergency.

 

[igor_kavinski]

I do not understand why people are not happy with remote submersibles with 4k cameras showing the Titanic?

Same kind of people who would volunteer to be first on Mars.

 

[allisolm]

Supposedly (not confirmed) the passengers are:

Hamish Harding - a British billionaire businessman based in the United Arab Emirates

Paul-Henri Nargeolet - a diver who has led several expeditions to the Titanic and supervised the recovery of many artifacts from the wreck

Shahzada Dawood - a Pakistani businessman
Sulaiman Dawood - son of Shahzada

Here's the thing. Shahzada Dawood is a trustee of the SETI Institute and you know that means. ALIENS! ALIENS did it.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/19/us/titanic-wreckage-missing-submersible-search-explainer-intl-hnk/index.html

 

[igor_kavinski]

Maybe there's an alien portal down there. They might return after a few days, having spent years in an alien civilization.

 

[thilanliyan]

This is like people who die on Everest. There's so much fun stuff to do with life that's not that risky. 🤷

Where would the human race be if people never took risks?
We'd still all be in Africa maybe...

 

[theeedude]

Where would the human race be if people never took risks?
We'd still all be in Africa maybe...

This is not risks to accomplish something new for humanity, just doing something others have done for personal vanity or curiosity.

 

[nOOky]

All the experience in the world can't do anything when faced with a serious technical malfunction. They really should have had the sub tethered to a really strong and long cable with which they could communicate with the ship on the surface so they could get pulled in, in case of emergency.

A steel cable as you suggest would weigh around 1 pound per foot or more, or more than 6 tons, so not feasible.

 

[K1052]

After reading a bit about the submersible and the company...nah...nah man. Not getting in that thing let alone giving those sketchy jokers 250K to bolt me inside of it.

 

[Oyeve]

Hell, we can't even find the missing Malaysia airplane from 9 years ago, I doubt they find this thing.

 

[hal2kilo]

Hell, we can't even find the missing Malaysia airplane from 9 years ago, I doubt they find this thing.

They have a much better idea of where to find this than the Malaysian airliner.

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

Same kind of people who would volunteer to be first on Mars.

At least that services accomplishing something. This is just pointless given the risk.

 

[igor_kavinski]

A steel cable as you suggest would weigh around 1 pound per foot or more, or more than 6 tons, so not feasible.

Google solved this problem for up to 11000m: https://patents.google.com/patent/US7621229

 

[dainthomas]

They're all paying to peer out of that tiny porthole on the front? Seems like you couldn't even see through that as well as you could with an ROV covered in cameras. This kinda boils down to the same kind of argument as to whether manned space flight is worth it. When we can do almost all the same science with probes, and at none of the risk.

Apart from it looking like something a DIYer cobbled together in their back yard, the fact that there's no locator beacon or tether and they bolt you in from the outside gets a big ol' nope from me.