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

Definitely something fishy going on.

Surprised they were not tethered to the mother ship, seems like cheap insurance.

They will run out of oxygen shortly, near, far, wherever they are

Ironic that they might die in a nautical accident while trying to view the remains of a famous nautical accident.

From the surface down to the Titanic on the bottom of the ocean? That would be a REALLY LONG cable.

It must have hit an iceberg. I hope they have enough lifeboats.

If Jack is still down there maybe he can draw a sketch of the sunken sub.

12,000 feet of chain or heavy duty cord, do you know how much that would weigh? Plus with the ocean currents going in all different directions at different levels beneath the surface, the submersible would get jerked around like a fly on a trout line.

The pressure down there is too ridiculous to comprehend, im guessing it imploded.

You would think that the sub has some kind of pinging device, like airplanes have on their black boxes so that the black boxes can be found even on the bottom of the ocean.

I think that finding the sub isn't the biggest problem. It's rescuing the people inside. Does anyone know if they usually bring a second deep sea sub on the ship as a backup?

What are you talking about? That sub is built to go to the bottom of the ocean. That's literally the whole point of it.

Well I suppose that’s true for people like you that aren’t believers in science.

Not on my list of things to do.

JFC that is even more claustrophobic than I imagined. I thought at least they’d have individual seats. 5 ppl crammed in that thing on the ocean floor as we speak. Really hoping for a positive outcome.

I've been following this story all day. You should check it out, since lots of misinformation on this discussion. First it is a submersible, not a submarine, and they are very different.

It has enough air for 96 hours, I think it is, but they don't know when it went missing, and they know they've used up at least about half of that already. It is 900 miles due east of Nova Scotia, and no suitable equipment there yet that can dive around for it - remote. It has something like 6 different methods it could re-emerge, so they don't know why it would still be down there unless a leak happened and it took on water. And yes, no cables or anything like that.

Truly frightening.

Edit: more facts: it measures about 9' x 9' x 20'. It is down something like 12,000 feet, which would be well over 2 miles. A round trip down and back is about 5 days usually. Three paying customers, the navigator (presumably this guy who owns the company based out of Everett, WA) and a scientist to interpret everything for the riders. and last edit: Cost to hitch a ride is $250 k.

5 days or 5 hours?

I think they're done for if they're really at the bottom, as I'm not sure what tech they could use to get dragged back up. I read they didn't even make it halfway down before they started having trouble, so it's unlikely they made it to the ocean floor due to the pressure. I assume either hull failure or it did eventually ascend. It can't be opened from the inside even if they're floating on the surface though, so they still need to find the sub or they're screwed. Obviously they'd be in a much better position than sunk at the bottom.

There is something wrong with your post.

It can't normally stay down for 5 days if it only has oxygen for 4 days.

And even if it did have enough oxygen, I've never heard of one of these subs staying down for 5 days. They go down, look around for a few hours, and then they come right back up.

I know the answer to that question. They do not.

If so, do ya think someone would have thought to USE THE SECOND SUB at this point?