The Titanic sub

[stainedtips]

Am I a bad person for thinking it's fucking hilarious? Rich assholes who paid 250 thousand dollars to go visit a tragedy inside of a tin can go missing and now they're dying slow and scared among the putrid scent of the piss and shit of 4 grown men. If I was a billionaire I would not be paying $250k to sit criss cross applesauce in a chef boyardee can.. I don't understand why some people are sympathetic towards them. Of course, it'd be terrifying if it was just some researchers, but these guys paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to sit inside a poorly made tube to go see the Titanic. If it was a group of us, they would not care at all. So I don't see why feel bad for them. It's a horrible and scary situation, but they quite literally asked for it.

 

[12_Years_Late]

Sometimes your destiny is to just go ahead and find out what the afterlife is like. I don't have a purpose on this planet anyway other than to end my life. It appears that the reason for these five folks' lives was to go on a final mission and all die together. There isn't much of a chance for them to be saved anyway, so I will just hope they have enough personal stories to get entertained for a few more hours before their eyeballs pop out of their sockets.

 

[stainedtips]

for a few more hours before their eyeballs pop out of their sockets.

For their sake, let's hope they exploded the moment we lost connection to the sub

 

[internetgirl]

ur not a bad person for it. hate the rich, and the one thing I hate more than the rich is stupid rich people. I mean imagine having everything handed to you and being so taken care of in lala land you forget what the real real world is? The ocean doesn't care about your money. Play stupid games win stupid prizes. Although, I do have sympathy for the 19 year old son I think was on board (not totally sure). Even if he's also rich as hell and probably a horrible person, he was just a kid and didn't even get a chance to use common sense. "Dad said it would be fine, so nothing will happen."

 

[12_Years_Late]

A frequent attraction at theme parks are Titanic inflatable slides, literally with the orange color and everything. I am sure that in a few years there will be inflatable games involving the Titan submarine incident featuring a recreation of the capsule, and this will all be because the media cared more about this event than the concerns of the people. I didn't even know that this had occurred until yesterday because I had not been following this media obsession.

 

[leloyon]

Well, they've been hearing banging coming from the ocean while the sub has less than a day's worth of breathable air left, so it's a race against time. So either we're gonna get the happy ending that makes things just a little bit brighter… or a bunch of rich twats get rescued and keep on living.

 

[VirtualSnow]

Going to see a sunken ship just to sink, the irony is real on this one.

 

[nerve]

It's a graveyard, not a tourist attraction.

 

[12_Years_Late]

It's about six hours of oxygen left at this point. That 19 year old better have made his peace with his life at this point, because he's most likely not going to get another chance to kiss a girl.

As a result of their decision, I hope that the 5 folks that went on this proxy death trap are forced to watch "Caillou" for all eternity.

 

[ItchySychadan]

Going to see a sunken ship just to sink, the irony is real on this one.

It's a graveyard, not a tourist attraction.

Thats´s the revenge of the dead, that rich people make a graveyard to a tourist attraction.

(sorry my english ist not so good)

 

[stainedtips]

It's about six hours of oxygen left at this point. That 19 year old better have made his peace with his life at this point, because he's most likely not going to get another chance to kiss a girl.

As a result of their decision, I hope that the 5 folks that went on this proxy death trap are forced to watch "Caillou" for all eternity.

I just woke up, its 6 AM right now, 6 hours after you posted this so their oxygen is gone now, and I'm not seeing any good news on twitter.. Funny how when my day begins, the life of others end. Hopefully we at least find the sub to figure out what happened though

 

[NumbItAll]

I don't understand the Titanic obsession anyway, it is just some loser boat that sank over 100 years ago. If I wanted to see a bunch of scrap metal I could go to a junk yard instead.

 

[Anon1337]

I don't find it hilarious at all. It's disturbing how many people are making light of this situation.

 

[Dot]

"A statement from the Coast Guard says the Horizon Arctic's ROV (remotely operated vehicle) found debris on the sea floor near the Titanic wreck"

Prss confrnce = takng plce @ 3pm locl tme

 

[Sweet Tart]

I'm thinking of various sci-fi scenarios where people were running out of oxygen in space and one opted to try to kill others to save the remaining oxygen for themselves. I believe a billionaire is vastly more likely than the average person to be a psychopath. Just a pragmatic thought, I'm not making any grisly predictions.

 

[12_Years_Late]

The Coast Guard announced Thursday that it believed the five passengers who disappeared while attempting to explore the Titanic shipwreck were likely lost due to a "catastrophic implosion" of their vessel.

U.S. Coast Guard Rear Adm. John Mauger announced at a press conference that on Thursday morning, five major pieces of debris had been found on the seafloor about 1,600 feet from the site of the Titanic, a finding "consistent with the catastrophic loss of the pressure chamber." Mauger said they then notified the families and offered their condolences.

Shortly before Mauger's comments, the company running the expedition, OceanGate, announced that the five passengers "have sadly been lost."

Titanic submersible: 5 passengers on missing sub likely dead following 'catastrophic implosion' - Yahoo! News

 

[locked*n*loaded]

IDK, i just find it completely obscene that anyone is even visiting the Titanic wreckage at all. It's the resting place of so many and I think the souls that went down on that ship, or any other catastrophic event, just deserve to be left alone and to rest in peace. They're not supposed to be a side-show, even in the name of science, or discovery, or learning. There's just something not right about it all. Let these people be. It's really no different, at least to me, than if a bunch of people decided to just start digging up graves in a cemetery "just to see what's down there". I just find it all obscene.

 

[Yakamoz]

Good way to die imho. Instant and painless. We should contact OceanGate for their next voyage.

 

[Rocinante]

Why they didn't just open the hatch and surface for air?

 

[marshmallowfluff]

IDK, i just find it completely obscene that anyone is even visiting the Titanic wreckage at all. It's the resting place of so many and I think the souls that went down on that ship, or any other catastrophic event, just deserve to be left alone and to rest in peace. They're not supposed to be a side-show, even in the name of science, or discovery, or learning. There's just something not right about it all. Let these people be. It's really no different, at least to me, than if a bunch of people decided to just start digging up graves in a cemetery "just to see what's down there". I just find it all obscene.

I couldnt agree more. I said the same thing about digging up graves.

It bothers me that hundreds of people died last week trying to escape poverty, yet we're given barely any resources to help them, yet some lost billionaires in a tin can were given help from multiple countries. It truly sickens me

 

[Cathy Ames]

Why they didn't just open the hatch and surface for air?

You probably know this already, but it turns out that they were dead from the implosion right around the time contact was lost.

At the depth of the Titanic, they would die very quickly (within a second?) outside of the submersible due to the huge pressure. Also, any action disrupting the hull (like opening a hatch, even if they COULD do that) would cause an implosion to happen.

The "safety" mechanism was that the submersible could off-load the ballast and passively float up to the surface. The occupants could make it happen a couple of different ways, or it supposedly would have happened automatically after 24 hours at the bottom.

Or at least this is my understanding.

 

[Rocinante]

You probably know this already, but it turns out that they were dead from the implosion right around the time contact was lost.

At the depth of the Titanic, they would die very quickly (within a second?) outside of the submersible due to the huge pressure. Also, any action disrupting the hull (like opening a hatch, even if they COULD do that) would cause an implosion to happen.

The "safety" mechanism was that the submersible could off-load the ballast and passively float up to the surface. The occupants could make it happen a couple of different ways, or it supposedly would have happened automatically after 24 hours at the bottom.

Or at least this is my understanding.

Oh, I was making a joke

 

[Dot]

 

[Homo erectus]

It seems they don't need a licence to go down there. Everyone can rent a tin can, go deep down the ocean, accidental press the wrong button to cause an implosion and die instantly.

 

[Dot]

It seems they don't need a licence to go down there. Everyone can rent a tin can, go deep down the ocean, accidental press the wrong button to cause an implosion and die instantly.

Apprntly usa laws prevnt frm takng 'passngrs' in unlicnsd subs whch = Y th/ passngrs wre all namd 'Missn speclsts' insted

Thre wll prbbly b sme upd8es 2 regulatns aftr ths