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

I just read that the coast guard dispatched some "underwater robot" to search the area where the sounds were detected but the search "“have yielded negative results but continue.”"

Found the guy who married into a family of poors! Go back to Baltimore and/or Chicago, you filthy poor!

"I know, let's make a lot of noise, maybe someone will hear!"

"Great idea! Should we make it constantly, or just every half hour or so?"

Was thinking the same thing, and yes, unlikely. Maybe it is the sound of some piece of mechanical equipment they are trying to re-start, like a pump or motor? With limited power, maybe they just try it at intervals so it might re-charge between attempts?

I know what's going on, there are sperm whales smashing into it. I forgot how they've been attacking ships again.

Even the deep ocean isn't safe, they can dive. And there's giant squids down there too

I'm pretty sure that must be it.

I've seen articles that estimate the chance of rescue at less than 1% :(.

I would love to do something similar to this, but I wouldn't, because it's spectacularly unsafe (not to see the Titanic, I don't feel that's OK in a way, but to see sea creatures). I chose to go in a boat with a glass bottom instead. It also only cost about the same price as a meal.

I understand wanting to explore but if you have to sign a disclaimer that mentions the possibility of dying on the trip multiple times, and you sign away those rights... that to me combined with the way this machine is operated is really concerning.

But that doesn't mean I don't feel for them. Obviously they didn't want this to happen. People have criticised this making the news. It makes the news because it's unusual - yes, people die on the water every single day but when it comes to this story, it has captured the public's imagination because it is so unusual.

They are probably floating somewhere at sea and need a helicopter or ship to search or something. Did they have oxygen tanks in their submarine. I'd imagine at that depth it would take an hour to swim to the surface but then they will be so far from Newfoundland that they will need help quickly. I'm not sure how long they can survive in the cold water. Also what kind of a username is Bekele Bread?

No, they bring compression socks for that.

I didn't dwell on the username to notice it wasn't Banana Bread and thought it was you.

Quick! Contact the US Navy! They would love to hear your dumb ideas.

This dude is definitely 600yd/600m man based on his peculiar use of commas. This effing guy.

Reading the Wikipedia page on the search for the wreck of the Titanic is hilarious. Various kooks (some wealthy and reputable) invested their money and energies into schemes to bring the yet-to-be-located ship to the surface via magnets, tons of Vaseline or by enveloping the ship in a man made iceberg. By the time you get to the part about the monkey trained to point to a spot on a map where the Titanic supposedly rests you can tell whoever wrote the wiki was enjoying themselves.

en.m.wikipedia.org

Wreck of the Titanic

The wreck of the Titanic lies at a depth of about 12,500 feet (3,800 metres; 2,100 fathoms), about 370 nautical miles (690 kilometres) south-southeast of the coast of Newfoundland. It lies in two main pieces about 2,000 feet...

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Years after the wreckage was finally discovered there was a special cruise event (read: millionaires) feat. celebrities to witness the extraction of a large piece of the wreckage, which failed when the piece being extracted came loose 200 feet from the surface and plummeted headfirst into the ocean floor two miles below. Burt Reynolds went home DEVASTATED.

With all due respect to the expeditioners presently in dire straits, it looks like the mighty ocean depths will once again make a mockery of humanity’s disregard for its seriousness. Just leave that mfer alone.

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Who cares about some rich mfs that pay 250,000$ to go down to the titanic in a damn submarine controlled by an off brand playstation controller. They may be rich but they're dumb as hell

Even if they were able to locate it, the technology does not exist to rescue them. And they will likely not die from a lack of oxygen but a build-up of carbon dioxide or hypothermia. These last few days must have been truly awful for them. If I was to ever go down in a submersible (not likely) I would have a gun with me so I could end it all quickly.

No, if they locate them, the technology to rescue them would likely just a wrench to unbolt the hatch because it would be bobbing on the ocean surface.

Funny that the guy interviewed on NPR that suggests less than 1% chance at this time is the one that told us there are seven ways for the the craft to surface, some of which include propelling it, using a bladder, dropping sandbags, dropping the steel legs. The sandbag dropping is automatic and can happen even of the crew is incapacitated because it works by the ropes holding them dissolving after a certain number of hours (before the oxygen would run out). I think that would place the chance that it's on the surface relatively high, certainly above 1%. Maybe above 50%?

There's a chance that the hull imploded. It was designed with help from NASA and others and supposed to be failsafe, but you never know. They had real time monitoring of the hull from strain gauges (and sonic monitoring? that would probably react too late), but if it is compromised, yeah, it's going to the bottom, and they are already dead. We have no way of knowing that now. It would be too late by that time, but it would end up in the debris field of the Titanic and would be hard to spot at the bottom.

There has been concern expressed about not being able to spot it if it's floating on the ocean now. It's white, and the ocean conditions are rough? and white capped, so it'd be hard to spot. I heard communication at depth is difficult because radio waves mostly don't penetrate water, so they have to have an acoustical link (sonar based). But that doesn't excuse them being difficult to find if they end up back on the surface as intended. There is supposedly Starlink on board, so that should work on the surface if the power isn't out. Did they not think to put things like emergency locator beacons or strobes (for aircraft to see) on separate battery systems that automatically activate when it hits the surface?

If it is floating on the ocean, they are bolted and sealed in and can still run out of oxygen and die. That would suck, looking out their only porthole at the surface waiting for someone to spot them. If it's on the surface, it WILL eventually wash ashore somewhere or be spotted by a boat. Hopefully within a day or two or they will be dead.

You'd think that after more than a century, they'd find that elusive iceberg somewhere.

Survivors (yes there were survivors) were adament bombs were going off still as the ship sank.

All powerful opponents to the proposed central banking system were on board and perished. So now we have central banks that can print money at will and decide our interest rates for us.
Nowadays, they'd invite such people to a Playboy Mansion or private island where selected things are less taboo than at home...

I would highly recommend that the new version of this submersible include the ability to open the hatch from the inside.

Assuming they are on the surface. How can it take so long for the rescuers to find them? Even if they said the are they could be in is as big as conneticut, just take a few helicopters and fly over the area for a few hours und you found them