Rescue mission launched for Titanic submarine
with five people aboard after it went
missing on voyage to see wreck of liner
12,500ft below Atlantic Ocean: Tourists
pay $250k a ticket
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Jen Smith
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
6/19/2023 12:13:31 PM
A tourist submersible taking wealthy explorers to look at the Titanic wreckage for as much as $250,000 a ticket has gone missing with five people onboard.
The Boston Coastguard and Canadian Coastguard are both now looking for the missing vessel that is operated by tour company OceanGate Expeditions.
The wreckage of the iconic ship sits 12,500ft- 2.5 miles - underwater around 370 miles from Newfoundland, Canada.
OceanGate Expeditions is thought to be the only company that offers the tours.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Corndoggies 6/19/2023 12:19:31 PM (No. 1495286)
People think having money insulates them from bad consequences. The stupid ones anyway.
27 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
Newtsche 6/19/2023 12:21:34 PM (No. 1495289)
Yeah, no thanks, I find an MRI bad enough.
49 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
Shells 6/19/2023 12:52:33 PM (No. 1495310)
I count this as something I’d want to do, but couldn’t.
Claustrophobia is real. Also not having 250 grand fu money is also real.
30 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
Venturer 6/19/2023 12:53:52 PM (No. 1495312)
Somebody is about to inherit a great deal of money.
22 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 6/19/2023 12:55:00 PM (No. 1495313)
It is good not to be rich.
21 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
JunkYardDog 6/19/2023 1:10:18 PM (No. 1495331)
I hope these people are found alive & well, but if not, well it's incredibly ironic that 5 more people will be victims of the Titanic sinking almost 90 years later.
39 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
Zeek Wolfe 6/19/2023 1:18:40 PM (No. 1495336)
The missing tourists have just qualified for a Darwin Award.
15 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 6/19/2023 1:19:15 PM (No. 1495337)
I've hoped it wouldn't happen, but for years, I've thought it was just a matter of time before a sub full of Titanic tourists sank. The next thing that won't surprise me will be a capsule full of space tourists crashing. There's only so many times people can do something risky and beat the odds. Ask some of the many corpses dotting Mt. Everest, or Michael Kennedy about playing "ski football" at a Colorado ski resort. As #5 says, sometimes it is good not to be rich.
21 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
Maggie2u 6/19/2023 1:36:01 PM (No. 1495349)
What happens when you have more money than brains. Hope they're found.
10 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
DVC 6/19/2023 2:08:08 PM (No. 1495376)
Hmm. Doesn't sound good. The Titanic is at 12,600 ft, with a water pressure of about 5,600 psi.
That is about double the pressure inside a SCUBA tank, and it is very difficult to keep structures intact under that pressure, and to prevent leaking of seals on doors, windows, and shafts like for propellers.
I had a chance to spend some time with a top Russian deep sea research institute out in Vladivostok a number of years ago, and looking at the necessary design features to keep something like a simple electrical wire penetration through a pressure vessel was pretty daunting. At these extreme pressures, the water will force it's way into incredibly tiny and "tight" joints and cracks.
One square foot has a pressure on it of over 800,000 lbs, about the weight of a fully loaded and fueled Boeing 747 ready to fly across the Atlantic.
No, thanks. I'll look at the pictures obtained by the robotic vehicles.
26 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
LadyHen 6/19/2023 2:20:06 PM (No. 1495389)
6500 lbs. per sq. inch pressure.. no thanks. Sounds utterly terrifying.
11 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 6/19/2023 2:56:47 PM (No. 1495422)
#6: make that 111 years later. The Titanic sunk in 1912.
I wouldn't climb into that sub and go down 12,000 feet if you paid ME $250,000. At that depth, if anything went wrong, they had about 2 seconds to live.
16 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 6/19/2023 3:11:42 PM (No. 1495435)
They are dead. Something went wrong. This is now a recovery operation of the remains. Those poor uber-wealthy types.
9 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
HicoKid 6/19/2023 3:20:53 PM (No. 1495445)
Not good. I'm not aware of any DSRV capable of saving them.
8 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
whyyeseyec 6/19/2023 3:57:31 PM (No. 1495472)
That's one expensive coffin.
7 people like this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
Urgent Fury 6/19/2023 5:03:18 PM (No. 1495510)
Some pretty callous reactions here. Just because they're rich doesn't mean they deserve a fate like this
We're supposed to be the good guys.
16 people like this.
Reply 17 - Posted by:
Hermit_Crab 6/19/2023 5:13:20 PM (No. 1495514)
I wonder if the tour company made their rich tourists sign a Liability Release before going down.
5 people like this.
Reply 18 - Posted by:
Heil Liberals 6/19/2023 8:08:43 PM (No. 1495582)
Over 350,000 children went missing last year, but all stops and millions of dollars to save the “important” people who paid to endanger their lives willingly.
We are a screwed up nation.
7 people like this.
Reply 19 - Posted by:
franq 6/20/2023 6:12:13 AM (No. 1495749)
If they lost communication with the vehicle, it is most likely a recovery, not rescue operation.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
mifla 6/20/2023 6:28:50 AM (No. 1495758)
Not sure how they would bring it up even if they found it in time.
Prayers
2 people like this.
Reply 21 - Posted by:
broken01 6/20/2023 10:01:17 AM (No. 1495873)
This reminds me of when I was in Navy Boot camp. We learned about when subs sank like the USS Thresher (SSN-593) which sank while doing sea trials in 1963. The never recovered the bodies of the sailors and civilians. I feel that this will be a recovery and not a rescue mission as the Titanic is one of the deepest wrecks with submarine hull crushing pressure.
1 person likes this.
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