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??

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by ptlyon

You just get sexier and sexier RM

You just won a free ride on my submersible as soon as I can figure out a way to steer it.

[ToxSocks]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

You just won a free ride on my submersible as soon as I can figure out a way to steer it.

Don't trip. I got you covered, boss.

[ptlyon]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

You just won a free ride on my submersible as soon as I can figure out a way to steer it.

F YEAH!!!

[Pablo]

Originally Posted by Detoxing

Don't trip. I got you covered, boss.

If you need a backup control just let this thing rip.

[Frazod]

Originally Posted by GloryDayz

Actually the 18-hour days weren't bad IMO, but that've changed that (watch the video below, it's very cool). I didn't mind it because my regular job (Fire Control), if we were in a busy place, was enough after tracking everything sonar was hearing and sending us. And once you're underwater, I'm not sure 24-hour days really much matter.

And yes, Boomers FUKING SUCK! Any submarine that needs two crews and is ultimately run by the Air Force is, well, SUCKS!

Unless we were under the ice, we'd make regular trips near the surface for query the satellites for message traffic, including those silly family-gram things. And the idea of looking at 26 miles of nothing like skimmers do, dealing with the seas, a hull that's always rotting because of salt spray, the "protocol" they have to follow in skimmers (LOL at the "blue tile" decks!!!), I'll take subs any day. That said, we were special operation boats, so we had it even better. We spent a LOT of time at sea, but that's about the worst thing.

And we did get port calls. They weren't the usual ports that skimmers go to, but I'll take La Maddalena, Toulon, and Faslane over the like of Naples.

It was different, but on balance, from what I saw the skimmers dealing with, I felt lucky.

Sorry, but all that video did was make me appreciate my ship that much more. Trying to imagine climbing down that ladder to get onboard when I was too drunk to walk is the stuff of nightmares. The only sub I've ever set foot in was the U-505 at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, and frankly the Indiana doesn't seem that much more spacious. And hotracking? Eww.

I was on a supply ship. The great part of being on a supply ship is half the time we were deployed we'd be in port replenishing. Sure it was hell on earth for the poor bastards in the supply department, but I was in engineering. Also being in engineering I didn't have to do any of the deck ape shit - no chipping and painting for me. I've been to a couple of dozen different ports, mostly in the Med but also in the Caribbean and South America. I've been to Toulon - I'll see that and raise you Rio de Janeiro. Sure we were in Naples a lot, but while it was nasty, dirty and seedy, it was also fun. And had I not gone to Naples, I'd have never gone to Rome. The worst Italian port city was Catania, Sicily, which made Naples look like Beverly Hills. But in the Med, the Spanish ports were the best, particularly Malaga and Palma. France was beautiful, but it was expensive and the people sucked.

As for the seas, sure, we were in some nasty storms and high waves, but on a typical day there'd be nothing more extreme than gentle rolling. I've spent over a year actually underway, and maybe a month and a half of that was in bad weather/heavy seas. Crossing the North Atlantic was the worst, especially heading back to Norfolk when we were empty. But we didn't conduct replenishments in the open Atlantic.

And not sure what you mean by blue tile decks. The tiles in most of the work and berthing spaces were white or black, and in the passageways they were green. Of course, that was nearly 40 years ago.

[jdubya]

Originally Posted by ghak99

What are the false pretenses?

If these folks believed this equipment was certified and tested I would assume that is why they gladly paid a fortune for a Titanic tour.

Of course if they were told that there was a 50% chance of catastrophic failure and they still handed their money over, then to each his own

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by Detoxing

Don't trip. I got you covered, boss.

Originally Posted by Pablo

If you need a backup control just let this thing rip.

I think one of these could work. But before I try, can you confirm that you're under 50? I'm in this to explore AND inspire.

[ToxSocks]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

I think one of these could work. But before I try, can you confirm that you're under 50? I'm in this to explore AND inspire.

Not only am I under 50, but i have actual previous experience with Little Tike products.

[FlaChief58]

Originally Posted by Pablo

If you need a backup control just let this thing rip.

The submarine goes boom!

[Frazod]

Originally Posted by FlaChief58

The submarine goes boom!

Of course I just heard that in my mind in the original voice from my 50+ year old toy, complete with the scratchy noises at the end.

I guess they don't have pull strings anymore.

[Kiimo]

The Submersible Captain goes


*sucks in until I pass out*

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by KC Dan

I served on 688's and SSBN's but also on Submarine NR-1 (Rickover's baby -Nuclear Research 1) which went well beyond those depths. It had viewing ports, manipulator arm, Tines and basket. A million times different from a fast attack or boomer sub. Interesting, scary and exciting all wrapped up in a 135 ft, tiny reactor, four thrusters, a 12 person underway crew submarine with alcohol filled wheels...

My memory is they spend a lot of time talking about that sucker in Sontag's book (Blind Man's Bluff).

Rickover seems part brilliant, part bastard. Or maybe several parts of both.

I can't imagine you haven't read that one but if not, it's an interesting read.

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

This article made me look up more about the guy's biography. He had the same degree that I did (aerospace engineering) at almost the same time, went to the same company that I did after graduating (McDonnell Douglas), and worked on the same airplane (F-15).

This is making me re-think the deep-sea submersible that I've been building from Home Depot plastic shelving in my garage.

Man.

Even money says you worked with my wife's aunt out there. She'd be about the same age and worked at McDonnell Douglas in Denver for like 25 years before retiring 3-4 years ago.

Then again, you could tell me that they employ 20,000 people there and I'd believe your. Or 17. I have no idea what the odds of anyone crossing paths there would be...

[FlaChief58]

Originally Posted by Frazod

Of course I just heard that in my mind in the original voice from my 50+ year old toy, complete with the scratchy noises at the end.

I guess they don't have pull strings anymore.

🤣 me too, I was laughing way to hard while typing it

[Pablo]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

I think one of these could work. But before I try, can you confirm that you're under 50? I'm in this to explore AND inspire.

Yes, I am. And I NEED inspiration.