'It was a suicide mission': German adventurer recalls his past experience aboard Titanic-exploring submersible now lost at sea

Post Millennial ^ | June 21, 2023 | Katie Daviscourt

[Red Badger]

Sit for ten hours cross legged? It's now been 5 DAYS ............ Even a Hindu would find that difficult.............

[No name given]

Yep.

[cld51860]

No to mention the cold... panic... anxiety...

[NautiNurse]

Debris field found within the search area.

[GOPJ]

... Loibl explained that the submersible had a series of electrical issues which resulted in a five-hour delay. In addition to those issues, the entrepreneur, who paid $110,000 for his ticket, said that the bracket of the stabilization tube had to be “reattached with zip ties." The stabilization tube balances the submarine, according to the outlet.... "You need strong nerves, you mustn't be claustrophobic and you have to be able to sit cross-legged for ten hours,"

And, under these circumstances you have to have more money than brains...

[awelliott]

Sit for ten hours cross legged? It's now been 5 DAYS ............ Even a Hindu would find that difficult.............

I doubt that they had to worry about any such difficulties as I bet it imploded.

[JudyinCanada]

Imagine paying that kind of money for the chance of a very slow, painful and terrorized death. And just to look at an old sunken ship. Bizarre.

[Fai Mao]

Yeah, the lack of chairs and facilities is another reason the thing was a death trap.

[volunbeer]

The stuff of nightmares. Like being buried alive except their are 5 people in the coffin.

[Red Badger]

Debris field found.................

https://news.sky.com/story/debris-field-discovered-within-search-area-near-titanic-us-coast-guard-says-12906735

[gloryblaze]

... I bet it imploded.

I pray it did.

[Red Badger]

https://news.sky.com/story/debris-field-discovered-within-search-area-near-titanic-us-coast-guard-says-12906735

[Rummyfan]

"You need strong nerves, you mustn't be claustrophobic and you have to be able to sit cross-legged for ten hours," he said of his experience, explaining that those onboard the vessel are most likely going through a hard time.

Now THAT is classic understatement.

[Red Badger]

Apparently it did.................

[Rummyfan]

Those aboard the Titan submersible, which has been missing since Sunday, include British billionaire Hamish Harding, Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his 19-year-old son, and the two passengers previously mentioned.

Dad should have left his son out of this.

[larrytown]

The stuff of nightmares. Like being buried alive except their are 5 people in the coffin.

Indeed! That is the root of all the gallows humor that is abounding right now - the widely varied multitude of potential horrors that people can easily imagine for these people. It's one of the few ways to cope with such terrifying thoughts.

[gibsonguy]

Actually imploding would be better than the slow death of being trapped in a cramped submerged metal coffin while the O2 runs out

[HamiltonJay]

Yes, the media has all but ignored the fact of the temperatures..

Days of slowly freezing/suffocating to death, possibly even in complete darkness depending on if the sub maintained power.

With little to no heat, the external water temp is just above freezing... if they lost electric/heat, every possibility they died of hypothermia before they ran out of air, assuming the sub didn’t just have a catastrophic failure and drown/crush them almost instantly.

[blam]

Comments made by CEO Stockton Rush:

"Rush said in a now-unearthed interview that he didn’t want to hire experienced ex-military submariners because “50-year-old white guys” aren’t “inspirational” enough. He said: “When I started the business, old-timers in the industry told me I was nuts, and they continue to tell me that — partly because I said I was going to take inexperienced pilots in a submarine, in current, in zero visibility — and they thought I was insane”.

Instead, Stockton said, he was employing “very intelligent, motivated, younger individuals” instead."

Rush is on the sub that is missing.

[Red Badger]

He’s dead, Jim......................