Tourist(s) missing in submarine while trying to reach the Titannic

[Ming the Merciless]

https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/u-s-coa...-sub-1.6446841

A search and rescue operation is currently underway to locate a submarine that went missing during an expedition to the Titanic.
The U.S. Coast Guard was looking for the submarine Monday morning after it disappeared during the expedition from St. John's, N.L. The infamous 1912 wreck is located more than 600 kilometres southeast of the province in the North Atlantic Ocean.
The trip to the Titanic was being run by OceanGate Expeditions, a U.S.-based company. It uses a five-person submersible named Titan to reach the wreckage 3,800 metres below the surface. OceanGate's website advertises a seven-night voyage to the Titanic for US$250,000 per person, or approximately CA$330,000.
"We are exploring and mobilizing all options to bring the crew back safely," an OceanGate spokesperson said in an email to CTV News. "Our entire focus is on the crewmembers in the submersible and their families."


Those tours are a series of five eight-day missions to the Titanic with the money raised by tourists going towards Titanic research. Posts on social media show the ship launched from the St. John's area last week.

Did they really have 5 people in this?? Or do they have a larger version??

[notorious]

It looks like a nicely tapered turd.

It wasn't a floater.

[TEX]

Originally Posted by PunkinDrublic

The same lack of regulations that made them rich also built them a watery grave lol.

Really idiot?...They're RICH DAMMIT!!! The ONLY way they could have become so is because they CHEATED!!!..And they are able to do REALLY COOL stuff that Ill never be able to afford to do, SO THEY MUST DIE! And its FUNNY! Cant get much more pathetic than you.

[notorious]

Originally Posted by ReynardMuldrake

Apparently they have redundant systems to bring the craft to the surface, but no beacon, no radio, no dye pack, no flares, no buoys, no seat belts, and no way to open the hatch from the inside. The craft is white so it blends right into the sea. If they are on the surface, they are pretty much relying on a rescuer making visual contact. Meanwhile the occupants get tossed around like shoes in a dryer, covered in puke and shit while waiting days to slowly suffocate in the darkness.

What a ****ed up way to die.

I'm convinced this is an insurance scam.

It's the only explanation.

[Kiimo]

It would be one way to fake your own death and avoid paying people you owe money to.

[Spott]

Originally Posted by Detoxing

Go ahead and that to this post.



Tossed around in your own shit, vomit and piss in total darkness at the bottom of the ocean while freezing your frickin' nads off.

While listening to Celine Dion over and over.

[PunkinDrublic]

Originally Posted by TEX

Really idiot?...They're RICH DAMMIT!!! The ONLY way they could have become so is because they CHEATED!!!..And they are able to do REALLY COOL stuff that Ill never be able to afford to do, SO THEY MUST DIE! And its FUNNY! Cant get much more pathetic than you.

Why don’t they just pull themselves up by their own bootstraps.

[WhawhaWhat]

Originally Posted by Kiimosabi

It would be one way to fake your own death and avoid paying people you owe money to.

They'd probably consider that a sunk cost at that point.

[SPchief]

Man, can you imagine the Netflix Documentary when this is all said and done?

[loochy]

Originally Posted by SPchief

Man, can you imagine the Netflix Documentary when this is all said and done?

Netflix you say? We'll, they'll probably shoehorn in some gay and tranny mixed race high school drama.

[Iconic]

Originally Posted by loochy

Netflix you say? We'll, they'll probably shoehorn in some gay and tranny mixed race high school drama.

you know we are in 2023, right gramps?

[myselff77]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

Hook point or no - what's gonna manipulate the hook into place? Again - there are maybe a couple of crafts in the world that can get that deep AND have anything that can actually clutch/grab an object.

If it's not on the surface or maybe mid-water, there's just nothing that can be done.

This sounds like a challenge for the "Adventures with Purpose" guys. Looking forward to the upcoming YouTube episodes.

[Ming the Merciless]

Originally Posted by notorious

I'm convinced this is an insurance scam.

It's the only explanation.

I wonder if life insurance would even cover this

I doubt it, especially with the waiver they signed

[srvy]

Originally Posted by ChiTown

"I can't say that we hired the best and the brightest here at OceanGate, but we absolutely hired the coolest and most inspirational people (aka: not qualified). Give us $250K for a ride, and we'll show you what we mean..."

A retired US Navy sub-Commander estimated their chance of being rescued was about 1%. That was yesterday morning when I read that its even less now.

What would be funny is if they were rescued by some 50 + year-old rescue crew.

[PunkinDrublic]

Originally Posted by SPchief

Man, can you imagine the Netflix Documentary when this is all said and done?

The first song on the soundtrack could be a Beatles cover.

We all died in an unsafe submarine, an unsafe submarine, an unsafe submarine.

[Ming the Merciless]

Originally Posted by The Franchise

I'm finding it hard to give a shit about a bunch of rich idiots at the bottom of the ocean.

there were 2 rich idiots and, 1 rich idiots kid and 2 non rich idiots