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 was thinking that would be a cut from Dr. Strangelove........... .
If it is a Titan ( mentioned on their web site) it can hold a pilot and 4 man crew. Has a 96 hour life support for 5 people.
Can reach depths of 4,000 meters.
Go on. Tell us more.
Interesting. I find 96 hours optimistic, once untrained people experience the fear of being contained under water the need for O2 increases drastically.
As an example I have seen people exhaust 60 minute SCBA tanks in less than 20 minutes just trying to not panic in an simulated IDLH environment such as firefighting drills.
Keep in mind those were just drills with a simulated risk and still people struggle with panic.
Sounds like just enough room for gear to take a few passengers down and back with little if any overbuild for extra life support capacity. Mus not have been a tethered craft either since they don’t mention pulling it back up by one.
I wonder if the 96 hours includes hyperventilating in panic as the reality sets in during a mishap?
The Kraken got it.
The Kraken got it.
Site doesn’t mention an escape hatch for rescue if the craft is disabled and must be left behind. Doubt it has one.
Not sure how much “training” goes into these expeditions. Would think at least two are employees in case of emergencies. 96 hours does seem to be an outlier in such a situation.
Suspect it is of the Titan class. They are mentioned in their website.
I think that should be RMS.
But speaking of mail, I was working for a manufacturing company in Lancaster Co PA originally founded in 1911, when in September of 2011 the remnants of tropical store Lee came through. There was severe flooding in this area and the basement of our main building, parts of which dated back to 1911 was heavily flooded.
I was part of the team (HR & PR) who after the flood waters receded and was mostly cleaned up (I remember going one very old and deep part of the basement we called the Tomb and had to wear PPE including a respirator because of all the mold), but our team also went through boxes and file cabinets even in areas that were not flooded, trying to determine what records could be discarded and what records needed to be kept for legal purposes and move them to a more secure and less flood prone area - file cabinets and boxes of records to be maintained and salvageable, put up on skids to raise them and keep them several feet off the floor.
I was going through an old metal file cabinet that was mostly full of old records of no real value when I found in the top drawer, a very yellowed file folder that contained some very old correspondences. Some of the documents were invoices and miscellaneous correspondences but one letter caught my eye.
It was a letter from the White Star Line in response to an insurance claim dated July 1912.
I don’t recall all the details, but that the company had payments on board from a company in England that we had sold equipment to along with purchase orders for future orders, these payments and purchase orders having been lost on the Titanic in April 1912, hence the insurance claim.
I couldn’t believe what I had found. I let my immediate boss know and we immediately contacted our company archivist along with our CFO who the archivist reported to let them know what I had found as not only was it historically significant for our company history but also perhaps of interest to several local museums or even the Smithsonian Postal Museum.
But the newly hired President of the company got ahold of the letter, and I never heard anything about it again and no one would answer my questions as to what happened with the letter I found. It like the Titanic had for many years, it just disappeared.
People forget that steam ship lines during this time were not just a means of transporting people, from first class to steerage but also mail, not only personal correspondences but business mail.
This was of course well before email and faxes and air mail so mail from across the sea was carried back and forth on steam ship lines.
https://prologue.blogs.archives.gov/2012/02/07/rms-titanic-letters-from-a-lost-liner/
https://postalmuseum.si.edu/exhibition/fire-ice-hindenburg-and-titanic-exhibition-ice-the-titanic-disaster/titanic%E2%80%99s-mail-clerks
I was watching a show about these subs last year. It was mentioned that if there any kind of trouble they are supposed to dump the batteries and float to the top,which would still take a few hours.
I was a large piece of hull section pulled up from the bottom, had portholes and some internal pluming attached to it.
Was at a exhibit in Boston and when nobody was looking i reached way over and placed the palm of my hand on it.
A cool fact is they know where exactly on the ship it came from...was part of the destroyed middle of the ship.
Also got a small chunk of Titanic coal sitting in my desk somewhere.
I've combined kw with search results, sorted and duplicates out, 297 topics, here are the selections.
Not for me. I got nervous on the Disney World 20,000 leagues under the sea, ride.
Nice. So, a chunk that was raised?
Me too. Read about it in my Weekly Reader.
Given the depths and the size of the craft I see no realistic way they would have engineered an escape hatch. Keep in mind an escape hatch then requires a recovery vehicle designed to utilize the hatch for rescue, takes both for an effective rescue operation.
Even the big subs, which do have an escape hatch, are way more limited in depth for usage coming no where near the depths mentioned here.
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