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.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...
"Raise the Titanic" - a great Clive Cussler book, and a great movie starring the late Richard Jordan. Written and filmed before Dr. Ballard discovered the wreck, broken in two.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who checks for security and touches stuff in museums. :^)
The Joint Rescue Coordination Centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia said the vessel was reported overdue around 9:13 p.m. Sunday, about 435 miles (700 kilometres) south of St. John’s, Newfoundland. Lt. Cmdr. Len Hickey said a Canadian Coast Guard vessel and military aircraft were assisting the search effort, which was being led by the U.S. Coast Guard in Boston.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQZPRM8vsFc
David Pogue, a CBS reporter who travelled in the Titan submersible last year, told the BBC about the issues that both the submersible crew and the land crew are likely to be experiencing, saying that there is currently “no way” to communicate with the vessel as neither GPS nor radio “work under water”.
“When the support ship is directly over the sub, they can send short text messages back and forth. Clearly those are no longer getting a response,” Mr Pogue said.
He added that because the passengers are sealed inside the vessel by bolts applied from the outside, “there’s no way to escape, even if you rise to the surface by yourself. You cannot get out of the sub without a crew on the outside letting you out.”
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65953872
I really liked the book and the movie.
Great movie...much better than the “Rose! Jack! Rose! Jack! (brrrrrr...gurgle gurgle)
Update...
https://www.foxweather.com/lifestyle/missing-titanic-tourist-submersible-missing
Hasn’t been located, but per the above the submersible is supposed to “...designed to surface automatically after any malfunction.”
More details, updated 4 minutes ago...
Thanks for the update.
Here’s a link to the latest information posted to the Daily Mail.
Finding missing tourist sub would be deepest undersea rescue operation
https://mol.im/a/12212237
Despite the caustic remarks in my earlier post, I do hope rescue efforts are successful and the vessel and passengers are recovered alive.
My concern is that everything is being focused through the assumption that the vessel continued its descent, even after losing comm, and is either at the Titanic or somewhere in the immediate vicinity. Yet, in the 2022 loss of control incident, the vessel just wandered uncontrolled until it resurfaced after some 2+ hours.
Comm was lost 1 hour 45 minutes after they started for the bottom. Yet the deep sea exploration documentaries discuss much longer times, many hours, to reach the ocean floor. Another report discuses the all electronic, touch screen control environment. What if the comm failure is the external manifestation of a total system crash?
It could be anywhere.
Failure could be air or air supply - contaminates in the air or a bad CO2-CO scrubbing system. Power, control failure. Hitting the hull - fouling the sub so it can’t rise up.
Not necessarily a hull collapse, but a “failure to be able to rise” could stick them below.
They got entangled...
Imploded
Are floating on the surface, lost.
Either way, suffocation, drowning, and imploding are bad ways to go.
Yeah, they could have all passed out due to bad scrubbers, and still be alive, possibly, with the sub non-responsive. But they are way overdue.
David Pogue
You may remember that the @OceanGateExped sub to the #Titanic got lost for a few hours LAST summer, too, when I was aboard…Here’s the relevant part of that story. https://t.co/7FhcMs0oeH
faktoider
I assume anyone who wanted to board the Titan had to sign the waiver? ”An experimental submersible vessel, that has not been approved or certified by any regulatory body, and could result in physical injury, disability, emotional trauma, or death.” (2:40)
https://twitter.com/faktoider/status/1670902034109800451
Unfortunately the North Atlantic is not known to have many desert islands in it.
Game Controller battery fail. (Probably)
SOSUS Has been around for a long time. I have not kept up with it but I assume that they have continually updated the technology.
I remember when they followed the Scorpion’s last known positions and knew what happened. That was shortly after I left the Navy.
They could also be caught up in an abandoned fishing net....
The submersible was operated by OceanGate Expeditions.
David Concannon, an adviser to OceanGate, said the submersible had a 96-hour oxygen supply starting at roughly 6 a.m. Sunday. In an email to The Associated Press, Concannon said he was supposed to be on the dive but could not go due to another client matter. He said officials were working to get a remotely operated vehicle that can reach a depth of 6,000 meters (about 20,000 feet) to the site as soon as possible.
https://apnews.com/article/titanic-wreckage-missing-submersible-62fadef7a55af0022e3dc75df862a5c1
This submersible takes passengers to The Titanic wreck. Climb in!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClkytJa0ghc
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