Submersible tour boat joins the Titanic

[George K]

[George K]

Too soon?

[Mik]

Yes, but the internet moves quickly.

[Doctor Phibes]

Based on the way safety appeared to be considered as an inconvenience more than a requirement, I'm guessing some lawyers are going to be moving pretty quickly, too.

[LuFins Dad]

This post is deleted!

[LuFins Dad]

Well, breathable air should be gone…

[bachophile]

This pic was tweeted out recently.

4X-EDL is an Elal Boeing 787. On June 20 it did the Miami Tel Aviv route. They got this message from ATC. What they were they thinking? That a plane at 36000 feet can see a vehicle the size of a SUV in the floating middle of the Atlantic. But I guess it never hurts to try.

[Renauda]

@bachophile

Yes, there’s always the proverbial, off-chance.

[Horace]

That would be like trying to spot a submersible 12000 feet under the ocean.

[bachophile]

Coast guard tweeted out

[89th]

Can you imagine if they found more Trump classified files inside the sub?

[LuFins Dad]

I’ve had a rather macabre thought over the past few days that I’ve been hesitant to post. I even did once but deleted it. 96 hours of air is based on a full cabin. They were down 1 person, so that should stretch it out some, right? I mean, assuming the sub is intact?

And for that matter, there’s the possibility that 1 or more of the 5 passengers died during this… And if you really want to get dark, there may be some passengers willing to do whatever it takes to cut down on the amount of oxygen being used down there…

[Horace]

I haven't seen a plausible explanation, other than implosion. They actually had lots of safeguards in place, but it all hinged on not imploding, of course. Sand bags were attached to the sub by ropes that would dissolve in water after some number of hours, so even if everybody was unconscious, the sub would have floated to the top. Unless it imploded.

[Doctor Phibes]

They're saying the debris is from part of the sub - a landing frame and rear cover

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-us-canada-65967464

[Horace]

Were those parts important?

[Mik]

I wonder how many more victims the Titanic has claimed since it sank.

[89th]

@LuFins-Dad said in Submersible tour boat joins the Titanic:

I’ve had a rather macabre thought over the past few days that I’ve been hesitant to post. I even did once but deleted it. 96 hours of air is based on a full cabin. They were down 1 person, so that should stretch it out some, right? I mean, assuming the sub is intact?

And for that matter, there’s the possibility that 1 or more of the 5 passengers died during this… And if you really want to get dark, there may be some passengers willing to do whatever it takes to cut down on the amount of oxygen being used down there…

Believe it or not, there is legal precedent for this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_v_Dudley_and_Stephens

In short. 4 men were in a lifeboat in the later 1800s... after many days, one of the men was in a coma. So they killed him and ate him. They claimed "custom of the sea" as a defense (a real thing btw, an alternative to maritime law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Custom_of_the_sea), but ultimately were sentenced to the statutory death penalty.

I guess back to your point, there was a reddit thread about this too, but basically yes if someone died, it would increase the length of available oxygen.

[89th]

@Mik said in Submersible tour boat joins the Titanic:

I wonder how many more victims the Titanic has claimed since it sank.

Including those who were forced to watch the movie?

[LuFins Dad]

Barring the recovery of the intact sub while there was still breathable air, this was the best possible outcome. Death would have been instantaneous.

[Jon]

OceanGate said in a statement that “we now believe that our CEO Stockton Rush, Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman Dawood, Hamish Harding, and Paul-Henri Nargeolet, have sadly been lost.”