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??

[Mephistopheles Janx]

Originally Posted by Donger

If you are referring to SOSUS, I believe that no longer exists.

EARS

https://www.popularmechanics.com/mil...vy-microphone/

[Skyy God]

Originally Posted by RunKC

Just reported a debris field was found near the Titanic. Looks like they imploded from pressure.

Recovery mission underway

Not a Darwin enough ending for these jamokes.

Also, hope the stepson gets his lap dance.

[Pogue]

Originally Posted by Mephistopheles Janx

One thing to consider is that the seabed is littered with microphones that the military listens to... one would think that they would have heard an explosion of some sort had there been some sort of violent de-compression.

If the military did hear an explosion, they wouldn’t disclose it.

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by Mephistopheles Janx

One thing to consider is that the seabed is littered with microphones that the military listens to... one would think that they would have heard an explosion of some sort had there been some sort of violent de-compression.

That was my first thought but I think it was billay that pointed out the depths involved.

Then again, they detect seismic activity at that depth.

Maybe it's just a situation where a quick little pop from 2 miles below the surface simply wasn't picked up.

[Donger]

Originally Posted by Mephistopheles Janx

EARS

https://www.popularmechanics.com/mil...vy-microphone/

That's fake news.

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by Pogue

If the military did hear an explosion, they wouldn’t disclose it.

But they wouldn't have sent ships to the scene either.

"Yeah...uh...we're busy."

I mean the theory is that sound waves travel as well/better in water than air and in fact can carry for hundreds if not thousands of miles. It really SEEMS like something should've picked that up. Hydrophones are damn powerful.

It's odd, honestly.

[ToxSocks]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

But they wouldn't have sent ships to the scene either.

"Yeah...uh...we're busy."

I mean the theory is that sound waves travel as well/better in water than air and in fact can carry for hundreds if not thousands of miles. It really SEEMS like something should've picked that up. Hydrophones are damn powerful.

It's odd, honestly.

They're covering up an underwater alien attack. It's the only reasonable explanation.

[mr. tegu]

That quote from him was really quite telling. He seemingly was going out of his way to almost brag about taking new approaches and being more in line with the aerospace industry. But this just sounds like code for claiming to have newer better ways than what exists but in reality thats just a cover so he can pretend he’s on the cutting edge and shouldn’t be questioned about his methods. “You just don’t understand aerospace technology and applications like me.”

Now I’m no submarine scientist but I’m guessing the technological demands of space and deep sea diving are just a tad different and not easily transferable.

[Sassy Squatch]

They heard that reeruned seagull from the live Little Mermaid adaptation start rapping and immediately imploded the sub on purpose.

[Rams Fan]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

To be as frank and ultimately macabre as possible - why?

If you're using an ROV to search the ocean floor, you're looking for bodies and little else. And that's all that system is designed for - it's a series of cameras; nothing that can actually conduct a rescue of any sort.

The bodies ain't going anywhere - there's really no rush and seemingly no utility in keeping one on-site.

From my, albeit very novice, understanding of how the ROVs could assist with lifting the submersible to the surface.

But no rescue of living people has been done this deep in the water before. The deepest rescue was like 1,500-2,000 feet below the surface.

[ptlyon]

Originally Posted by Detoxing

They're covering up an underwater alien attack. It's the only reasonable explanation.

God dammit I'm telling you guys it was a German U-boat that is lost without communication that doesn't realize the war is over

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by Donger

If you are referring to SOSUS, I believe that no longer exists.

Dam Neck does - and by all available information (much of which is classified) it's an exceptional system. Almost certainly better than SOSUS was.

And there are still remnants of SOSUS that are in use for research purposes.

Yeah - we absolutely have ears in the water.

[ToxSocks]

Originally Posted by ptlyon

God dammit I'm telling you guys it was a German U-boat that is lost without communication that doesn't realize the war is over

Maybe.

Also could be bigfoot. Impossible to know for sure.

[TLO]

So was the banging they heard aliens?

[mr. tegu]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

To be as frank and ultimately macabre as possible - why?

If you're using an ROV to search the ocean floor, you're looking for bodies and little else. And that's all that system is designed for - it's a series of cameras; nothing that can actually conduct a rescue of any sort.

The bodies ain't going anywhere - there's really no rush and seemingly no utility in keeping one on-site.

It seems as ubiquitous as having air tanks and diving suits on board. I mean, this company doesn’t have one and they never actually sent one down? First time they set eyes on it for themselves was in a submarine?

But as a practicality, should the issue have been some sort of power failure, communications malfunction, they are stuck, etc. that ROV could have helped diagnose the problem on Monday if the issue was not something like a hull breach.