Tourist submarine taking people to the site of the Titanic wreck has gone missing

chance is very very small, Titanic is 270m long and it took 70 years to find it, this submarine is 6m long

What happens when this thing washes up in North Carolina in 6 months 💀

Eh? If they get out it's a great movie.

If not, it's a movie about five men stuck at the bottom of the ocean in a titanium can in pitch darkness for three days before dying of oxygen starvation and never found. Real family entertainment!

We welcome this type of unregulated, risk taking, entrepreneurial spirit here in unwoke Floriduh!

The Navy uses gaming consoles on its submarines but they are wired in. The gaming consoles on the Titan are operated by bluetooth. Did they ever think that the bluetooth might get disconnected 2.5 miles down in the ocean?

It was designed to come back up after 24 hours.

"Crew members are told they can release the ballast by rocking the ship or use a pneumatic pump to knock the weights free, Newman said. If all else fails, he said, the lines securing the ballast are designed to fall apart after 24 hours to automatically send it back to the ocean’s surface."

So why didn't it come up? Most likely scenario to me seems that there was a weakness which caused it to crumble under pressure.

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What it's like inside the Titanic-touring submersible that went missing with 5 people on board | CNN

Emma Tucker

Though it’s roughly the size of a minivan, with five adults aboard, the Titanic-touring submersible that went missing Sunday may seem small and cramped. And on the dive thousands of feet towards the bottom of the North Atlant...

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Haha what an idiot. There is no way id be relying on Bluetooth.

How many times have you had to reboot a phone or PC bc it wouldnt connect to a bluetooth device? A millionty.

What’s your point? Ocean Gate is headquartered in Washington.

Also, even the most highly regulated industries have failures, e.g., Boeing 737 Max.

Nationwide there are about 50,000 flights every day. How many failures are there each year? The Titan has made 3 trips to the Titanic and 1 ended in disaster. That is a failure rate of 33%.

Bluetooth won’t work even a foot under water, but they appear to be using it inside the sub, which is fine assuming they would’ve had spare batteries.

The Challenger failed on its 10th flight. The Columbia failed on its 28th flight. Not exactly stellar numbers for those crafts.

You increase the risk of the mission, and you increase the likelihood of failure.

I wouldn’t have stepped on board of that submersible, but those who did knew there was risk.

I’m fine with regulation for risky endeavors for the masses such as air travel. A little niche market like going to the bottom of the ocean floor or climbing Everest, I think it’s proceed at your own risk.

My original point was that I don’t know what DeSantis or Florida has to do with this. Maybe I’m not following this story closely enough.

So are tax payers going to get reimbursed for the expenses of this search? I’m guessing it has cost a lot of money and we know the billionaires in that death trap have the money to pay for it. Hope all costs associated with this search are paid for out of their estates before anyone in their wills inherits a dime. I feel bad they died but if you have the money to pay for something this stupid, no way tax payers should be paying to save you.

Blockbuster if they're found alive. Documentary if they're found dead or stay missing.

We're used to wasting taxpayer dollars -- Trump hoax...

Don’t worry, the search and rescue is a conservative operation as it’s obviously pro-life. In case you are a liberal, don’t worry either coz it’s all for improving our scientific understanding of the ocean floor and high-pressure rescue operations.

In case they don’t reimburse you, just angrily vote them out, whoever they are, if they are at all elected officials.

Why would that happen? It's a signal going from one device in the sub to another--distance below the surface of the earth or pressure would not play into its functioning.

Isn’t it great how everything somehow ends up with a political bent to it? 🙄

Some people are so angry and so bereft of critical thinking their response to anything is a canned political talking point.