Posted on 06/19/2023 7:21:58 AM PDT by DCBryan1
A search and rescue mission was underway Monday morning for a submarine that went missing off the coast of southeast Canada on an expedition to explore the wreckage of the Titanic. Lt. Jordan Hart of the U.S. Coast Guard in Boston told CBS News that personnel were "currently undergoing a search and rescue operation" when asked about the rescue efforts off the coast of Newfoundland.
It is not clear how many people are on board the missing vessel.
OceanGate Expeditions, a company that deploys manned submersibles for deep sea expeditions, recently said on its website and social media feeds that an expedition to the wreckage of the HMS Titanic, which lies about 400 miles off Newfoundland's coast, was "underway."
OceanGate Expedition was not immediately available when contacted by CBS News to confirm that its vessel was the subject of the search and rescue operation, or that it was involved in any way.
Earlier this month, the company said on Twitter that it was using satellite company Starlink to help maintain communications with its expedition on the Titanic voyage.
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I remember back in the early 1970s Steel Pier in Atlantic City had a diving bell. About 4 people could fit and when you went down you could not see anything out the window because of the sand and soil swirling around.
“Hero’s one and all.”
I have never thought of myself as a hero. Years later I thought, “Geez! I must not be too bright! I volunteered to serve on a ship that sinks.....on purpose!” ;-)
yea
see my post 95
Portholes are from two 1st class staterooms, the plumbing is from a bathroom.
The bottom portion came from the lower deck 1st class dining kitchen.
There are pictures on the web
Paging Doctor Robert Ballard.
“I was a large piece of hull section”
History is really mostly about tragedy and error.
I touched some of the foundation bricks of Nebuchadnezzar’s palace and of course the (reconstructed) Ishtar gate in Babylon.
You know the Babylonian graineries are still visible to the east of the Babylon site as large hills. They are gigantic, made from baked dirt bricks so they erode and look like dirt hills but when you look and give a kick it’s brick underneath.
Dirk could rescue them.
“When you give a vague description of that life to a civilian do you not invariably get the “ there is no way I could do that “ reply?”
Yes, each and every time! They tend to act like I AM a hero! ;-)
Me, too! LOL!
Fox reporting it was reported missing late yesterday. Supposed to have 96 hour air supply and has a way to release batteries so it can float to the surface. So if the problem was not one of an implosion, they may have a chance. Otherwise it’s a whole different story.
Oops
Forty-six years later in 1884, a yacht named Mignonette sailed from Sydney, Australia to Southampton, England. This reaL event involves shipwreck, cannibalism, and a murder trial. Using the actual novel, and the event story from Wikipedia, both stories share some remarkable similarities:
The individual who was sacrificed/murdered and cannibalized was named Richard Parker.
The murder/cannibalism took place in late July. In the novel, the body was consumed over four days, 17 to 20 July. In the event, the murder took place on 24 or 25 July. (Poe’s novel was originally published in July).
In the novel, a tortoise was consumed for survival; in the event, a sea turtle was consumed. Both accounts mention “three pounds” of meat from the animal:
”With a view of preserving a portion of this as long as possible, we cut it into fine pieces…. In this manner we put away about three pounds of the tortoise” (novel)
”On or around 9 July, Brooks spotted a sea turtle which Stephens dragged on board. This yielded about three pounds (1.4 kg) of meat” (event)
The quenching of thirst by consuming human blood: ”Let it suffice to say that, having in some measure appeased the raging thirst which consumed us by the blood of the victim" (novel)
“Killing Parker before his natural death would mean blood to drink" (event)
In the novel, the character Pym has a dog, Tiger. The dog disappears from the story prior to the cannibalism, and its fate is left unresolved.
Finally, the philosophical novel, Life of Pi,” written by Canadian author Yann Martel, and published on September 11, 2001, is about a teenage boy who survives at sea after a shipwreck while stranded on a lifeboat in the Pacific Ocean with a Bengal tiger named…Richard Parker.
Yann Martel on Richard Parker:
Richard Parker and shipwreck narratives
The name Richard Parker for the tiger was inspired by a character in Edgar Allan Poe's nautical adventure novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838). Richard Parker is a mutineer who is stranded and eventually cannibalized on the hull of an overturned ship, and there is a dog aboard who is named Tiger. Martel also had another occurrence in mind in the famous legal case R v Dudley and Stephens (1884), where a shipwreck again results in the cannibalism of a cabin boy named Richard Parker, this time in a lifeboat. A third Richard Parker drowned in the sinking of the Francis Spaight in 1846, with a cabin boy cannibalized during an incident involving the same ship in 1835. "So many victimized Richard Parkers had to mean something," Martel suggested.
Predictive programming is a conspiracy theory...
Life is cheap in Russia. 100 dead sailors. Or 200,000 dead soldiers.
Commentator on Fox says if they got too close to the Titanic it could have become entangled with wreckage or any loose debris from previous expeditions. That is something they likely couldn’t escape from.
He must have seen Raise The Titanic recently.
There is a scene along those lines.
From the US Coast Guard: contact was lost only 1 hour 45 minutes after dive began Sunday morning.
The wealthy are particularly afflicted with the “it can’t happen to me” delusion.
Space tourist flights to the ISS are what? $10-20 million a seat for the ride and a 7-10 day stay aboard the station. Makes $250k for a dive to the Titanic a real bargain.
Pricey adventure bucket lists are not limited exclusively to the wealthy. Nor is the possibility of pointless death while doing something that is essentially not worth doing a big dissuader:
https://www.businessinsider.com/dead-bodies-on-mount-everest-are-hard-to-get-down-2019-5
The number of dead (mostly tourist) climber bodies still on Mount Everest is estimated at around 200. 310 persons have died on the mountain.
Latest headlines say the submersible may be entangled with some part of the wreck. Wonder how much extra that side excursion added to the $250k tab.
That’s cool.
Somewhere around the house I have a piece of the Admirals Deck from the Battleship New Jersey.
I worked for a company that sold the museum some products to replace the existing deck and they gave me an original artifact.
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