Posted on 06/19/2023 7:21:58 AM PDT by DCBryan1
CEO Stockton Rush is also on board.
Lost contact 1 hour and 45 minutes after launch
Transit to wreck usually two hours
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOX0S76b_X0
Had to look up Mr. Rush. He is CEO of the submarine company.
From 2020, more on the submersible...
The first law of submarining: The number of surfaces has to equal the number of dives + 1.
Who’s onboard the Titan submersible ? ?
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-65955554
British adventurer Hamish Harding 58, chairman of aircraft firm Action Aviation, is a renowned explorer who has flown to space and holds three Guinness World Records.
In a statement released on Tuesday, the Dawood family in Pakistan said: “Our son Shahzada Dawood and his son, Suleman, had embarked on a journey to visit the remnants of the Titanic in the Atlantic Ocean.
“As of now, contact has been lost with their submersible craft and there is limited information available.”
French explorer Paul-Henry Nargeolet is also thought to be on board, according to a Facebook post by Mr Harding before the dive started
Stockton Rush, chief executive of OceanGate, is also widely reported to be on the vessel.
What we know about the missing Titanic tourist submersible
This article includes a photo of the Titan: This image courtesy of Dirty Dozen Productions shows the 4am start of the RMS Titanic Expedition Mission 5 on the morning of June 18, 2023. © Dirty Dozen Productions via AFP
capitalists? Really? I’m a capitalist.
Reminiscent of Apollo I.
A Canadian aircraft searching for the missing Titan submersible, which failed to return Sunday from an expedition to the wreckage of the Titanic, detected “banging” in 30-minute intervals coming from the area the divers disappeared, according to internal e-mail updates sent by the Department of Homeland Security’s National Operations Center obtained by Rolling Stone.
Official NE Coast Guard District Twitter account.
https://twitter.com/USCGNortheast/status/1671372008758624260
Canadian P-3 aircraft detected underwater noises in the search area. As a result, ROV operations were relocated in an attempt to explore the origin of the noises. Those ROV searches have yielded negative results but continue. 1/2
Additionally, the data from the P-3 aircraft has been shared with our U.S. Navy experts for further analysis which will be considered in future search plans. 2/2
11:18 PM (CDT) · Jun 20, 2023
[i]In underwater disasters, a crew unable to communicate with the surface relies on banging on their submersible’s hull to be detected by sonar. However, no official has publicly suggested that’s the case and noises underwater can come from a variety of sources.[/i]
https://apnews.com/article/missing-titanic-submersible-updates-608d57438211821fee3f5349ebcc8eec
Realistically, what inside the sub would be there to bang on the hull, to be heard? I wish they would ask folks who have already been on that sub, to say what they think would actually be there to bang on the hull.
The Thirty-Fathom Grave - The Twilight Zone
The crew of a Navy destroyer hear a mysterious rhythmic noise coming from a sunken submarine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXMn158Ep8k
that was an eery episode of the twilight zone...
Polar Prince Data Sheet and Current Location on Marine Traffic
“We have to retain hope as part of what we are doing as a human community to find the explorers and bring them to safety,” she said.
A U.S. Navy official said Wednesday that a special naval salvage system that could be used to haul the Titan to the surface had arrived in St. John’s. Officials were in the process of identifying a vessel that it could be attached to, and once one is chartered, it would take about 24 hours to weld the system to the deck.
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