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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oops.
I mean here:
https://youtu.be/Yj_yFpL6uoE
Thought it was going to be this clip from The Hunt For Red October...
https://youtu.be/HCHGFkhxInM?t=64
Says Boston-based Coast Guard is doing a surface search for the expedition. Would the US Navy be asked to dive on the wreck area to search for them?
Maybe they are all marooned on a deserted island, and the professor that was onboard is trying to make a cb radio out of coconuts as we speak.
Hope they are all OK, though it doesnt look good right now. Had an uncle in the military who served on a nuclear sub. We always worried a bit for his safety when he was off on tours.
Profligate, self-centered thrill seeking... And capitalists with an expensive thrill for sale... Like what could go wrong?
Prayers for the lost and for their families nonetheless, one would suppose... One hopes they had their insurance paid up.
I am not seeing how there is much chance for a positive outcome. Being a submariner and having 7 patrols under my belt one thing I learned, there is 0 room for error.
It is unlikely they have even the smallest of reserves capable to sustain a dive much longer that the 10 hours planned.
It would be a recovery operation, not a rescue. Let them stay buried at sea.
Yes. This isn’t search and rescue, it’s search and recovery.
Futility is a novella written by Morgan Robertson and published first during 1898. It was revised as The Wreck of the Titan in 1912. It features a fictional British ocean liner named Titan that sinks in the North Atlantic Ocean after striking an iceberg. The Titan and its sinking are famous for similarities to the passenger ship RMS Titanic and its sinking 14 years later. After the sinking of the Titanic the novel was reissued with some changes, particularly to the ship's gross tonnage...
...Although the novel was written before the RMS Titanic was even conceptualized, there are some uncanny similarities between the fictional and real-life versions.
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I thought might be the clip from Hunt for Red October ...
“You’ve lost another submarine ???”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCHGFkhxInM
Not clear? Where's the manifest, huh?
They are dead and cold, probably squished.
The Hunt For Red October
*I remember the Kursk.*
“The Command* was a good movie on the Kursk. Sad. A torpedo man requested the mission aborted due to temperatures reaching a dangerous level. It was denied. People covering their butts got them all killed. Then the higher-ups wouldn’t acknowledge it. An 89 year-old Max Von Sydow played the Russian higher-up who did a poor job explaining it to the angry families of the victims.
The moral? Don’t put your life in someone else’s hands. I joined the Air Force. Planes needed to be in a protected area, far from any ‘action’. Let the dummies who join for the adventure get themselves killed. Pat Tillman was one.
Yes, very limited amount of air in that little thing.
I’ll pass. Too risky and too $$$$. Besides, looking at pictures on the internet is the lazy man’s way to see the world.
HMS Titanic? Since when did the Royal Mail Ship get a commission?
“So much for a ‘trip of a lifetime’.”
Well, actually, it looks like was.
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