[CedarDave]

Scroll down at the link for an additional story about an Oceangate employee being fired for asserting the vessel wasn't safe for deep dives.

[NWFree]

The MacGyver Barge

[shotgun]

Who are they going to sue now that Ocean Gates President was piloting the craft?

[Rummyfan]

Personally I do not see the attraction of diving to almost 10K feet to see a shipwreck. And now.... Prayers for the passengers and crew.

[NWFree]

Bolted shut from the outside in case anyone had any ideas about escaping

[VTenigma]

They’re fish paste.

[tennmountainman]

If fired employee’s story is true, very ominous.
What I don’t understand is why the Sub did not have an Airplane style
pinger. Capable of holding up to the pressure at that depth.
Regardless if Sub imploded.
My understanding is that it did not have an Airplane Style Pinger.

[StAnDeliver]

"The hull of the Titan vessel "showed signs of cyclic fatigue," according to a January 2020 interview with OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, who is aboard the missing vessel. Rush told Geekwire that due to that stress, the hull rating was downgraded to a depth of 3,000 meters, 800 meters short of the Titanic's depth.

In a December 2019 slideshow that appears to have been presented to the Deep Submergence Science Committee of the University — National Oceanographic Laboratory System, OceanGate listed the depth capability of the Titan as 3,000 meters."

90 minutes depth = 3000 meters. Damn.

[ansel12]

Here is a discouraging 60-second look at the sub.

https://twitter.com/th3j35t3r/status/1670967960230326274?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1670967960230326274%7Ctwgr%5Ee3551365b7b92072ed3e2882ec43955e05642b15%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.democraticunderground.com%2F100218023505

[NWFree]

“ because the passengers were sealed inside the main capsule by 17 bolts that can only be opened from the outside, they are trapped and could still suffocate”

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12214527/Gradual-suffocation-hypothermia-panic-attacks-Health-impacts-trapped-submarine.html

They all belong to the dead billionaires club now

[RouxStir]

They are going to refit the design for trips to Mars.

[Round Earther]

There is one sure way for four of the five on board to cut oxygen consumption by 20%.

[NWFree]

I’ve gone for decades without even seeing the silly moviie but these smart guys couldn’t stay out of a death trap

[Political Junkie Too]

I want to know what happened to the notion that the Titanic was hallowed ground?

-PJ

[centurion316]

It appears that it was the very model of a modern woke company, according to the CEO, who is now lost at sea and unavailable for comment.

[Quentin Quarantino]

My money is on the carbon fiber hull shattering into a million shards. If anything is ever found, it’ll probably be twisted and bent titanium scraps

[Edward Teach]

Maybe it’ll be located and then its wreckage can be used as another tourist attraction for ultra-rich dilettantes to waste money on.

[AZJeep]

When they first found the wreck, they decided to keep it intact and not disturb all of the dead inside.
Obviously they violated that pledge.
Maybe they are getting punished for that.

[Bonemaker]

Shove your Titan.

[Drew68]

[Tijeras_Slim]

I’d volunteer to turn the crank on the Hunley before I’d get in this thing.