Posted on 06/22/2023 5:23:54 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
The Titanic tourist submersible that vanished on a trip to the 111-year-old shipwreck at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean is believed to have run out of oxygen — but authorities pushed ahead with the search operation Thursday morning.
OceanGate Expeditions, which operates the Titan sub and whose CEO, Stockton Rush, is aboard the missing vessel, told the Coast Guard on Sunday evening that the vehicle was equipped with only 96 hours of oxygen, with the timer running out around 7:08 a.m. Thursday.
The status of the five passengers aboard the ill-fated trip remains unclear as US and Canadian officials work around the clock to attempt to locate the missing Titan sub 900 miles east of Cape Cod.
The Coast Guard on Thursday morning confirmed that a remote-operated vehicle “has reached the sea floor” and started searching for the missing sub.
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not how anyone should go out.
They should have gone to Disney to get some of their Marvel freakshow heroes to find the sub.
As I noted prior, there must be a lot of 50 year old white men that are breathing a sigh of relief after being REJECTED from jobs at that company.
Tangled in Titanic wreckage?
“People are social media are disgusting with the comments that made against these people in the sub because they are billionaires.”
In one of the cases, the CEO, his comments about the majority of people here were INSULTING and UNCALLED FOR, and also wound up quite possibly costing him his life.
Yes, and who did they call when the sub went missing, a bunch of young ghetto thugs? I don't think so.
There’s no way to be sure, as of now, if the statement in the headline is true or not.
This is one of those things where being wealthy is a detriment. The average person doesn’t have the money to do things like this even if they wanted to.
That said, I was all for searching for them because we should care for our fellow man even when they make silly decisions. Could be ourselves at any given time.
Billionaires or not and regardless of ticket price, I would have done my due diligence in checking this out before going on that ride. I hate being stuck in a plane for four hours and I’m being paid to do that. Not a chance I’d get in that thing and go 2.5 miles underwater with >2 tons psi trying to smoosh the cramped vehicle I’m in, much less for 8-12 hours.
That is one scenario I have heard from someone who was in a submersible that that very thing happened to.
Having said that, I also hear the vehicle was equipped with a $40 wireless video game controller for steering. I wonder what other equipment was of a poor quality.
I think it probably ran out of oxygen the moment it imploded.
The entire thing is particularly galling to many, because ROVs can, and have, provided the same views/images, or better, than the passengers were getting from being down there in that carbon fiber coffin.
It is difficult to feel much compassion or remorse for people who had more wealth and luxury than the vast majority of humanity can even imagine, and they squandered their good fortune and comfortable lives on an entirely unnecessary, and ultimately fatal, trip.
Agree.
“Why do it?”
“Because it’s there”
“Cool story bro. Have fun with that”
Also, I would put this in the “Play stupid games, win stupid prizes” category.
The sun is “there” and yet to be explored.
What excitement. Such thrills.
Pay no attention to those old white guys telling you it is “unsafe”.
They are too hung up on risk.
All aboard!
I have been watching various interviews with people (hated old knowledgeable white men that is), and most would have never taken a job with that Oceangate because of the nonserious nature and safety of that CEO and his submersible.
The Rush guy seems upbeat and friendly and inspiring, but that doesn’t mean he was running a tight ship or that he made good decisions particularly when his enterprise was for tourist reasons only.
Multiple possibilities.
Vehicle catastrophically failed at the beginning of losing contact and imploded.
Vehicle lost power and either is sitting at bottom and hard to see or floated back to surface and is hard to see.
Supposedly it had fail-safes to ensure it returned to the surface even if power lost by would be hard to see there, in the open rough ocean, as it rides low in the water.
Entangled in debris down there, now out of oxygen.
Sad. Prayers for their souls and for the grieving families.
If the craft is ever found intact, perhaps they survived long enough to record what happened and leave messages to their families behind in the craft before they all died.
I fear this will go from a ‘rescue’ to a ‘recovery’ operation, all too soon.
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