The submersible
Polar Prince, ship used to take tourists from Newfoundland to the wreckage site.
Posted on 06/19/2023 11:22:51 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
A frantic marine search is underway for a missing tourist submersible which has not been seen since it launched to take five people to the Titanic wreckage yesterday morning.
The Boston Coastguard and Canadian Coastguard are both now looking for the missing vessel that is operated by tour company OceanGate Expeditions.
The wreckage of the iconic ship sits 12,500ft- 2.5 miles - underwater around 370 miles from Newfoundland, Canada. OceanGate Expeditions is thought to be the only company that offers the tours.
As of 1pm Monday, the sub had just 72 hours of oxygen left, according to the US Coast Guard Admiral leading the coordinated effort to find it.
Among those onboard is British billionaire Hamish Harding. He posted excitedly on Instagram about being able to commence the dive after a bout of bad weather in Newfoundland.
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Well there are a few piles at both Poles! They endeavour to keep them cleaner than Everest.
“Timothy, Timothy, Joe was looking at you
Timothy, Timothy, God what did we do?”
If there is there is a dude named Tim on board, he must be getting squeamish.
Musk, Bezos, Gates and Suckerberg seem to be doing okay.
hope they get found.
If it did crush, they never knew it happened.
Well played!
In fact, I heard in a news report that the submersible has a toilet.
was Ghislaine at the helm ?
When Kursk sank they knew exactly where it was and it was in 350 feet of water and couldn’t effect a rescue. I have my doubts about a happy outcome.
Titanic is on the bottom at 12500 feet. 500 feet below this stated maximum depth. ie. crush depth of below 12 K feet- not good.
Surprised it took 26 posts but this was my first thought as well. Crush depth rating of 12k does not mean 12k is a good idea because there is little margin for error at those pressures in design, maintenance, or welds.
Hoping for the best.
The submersible
Polar Prince, ship used to take tourists from Newfoundland to the wreckage site.
I swore off adventures like these after the mission over Macho Grande.
Newfoundland doesn't have 'bouts' of bad weather... They only have bad weather followed by 'bouts' of good weather. There are lots of icebergs floating about this time of the year too... So running into one those would end your sub trip pretty quickly.
The problem with being a billionaire... You can do a dangerous $250 thousand dollar trip and convince yourself that the company running it knows what they're doing.
No, but they have all the coconut cream pies they can eat.
When you’re a billionaire, I guess after a while you run out of things to spend money on.
Submarine excursion to the Titanic? Trip into space? Sure! Why not?
What could go wrong?
“Is that a watered down version of a pun? “
Dripping with sarcasm, that one.
That’s good. Subs are pretty small usually, I bet privacy takes a hit. But after 30 hours, I wouldn’t be complaining.
The other 4 people might be though.
I’m completely assuming here, but it seems to me there should be some good communications device to maintain comms between the sub and the topside. If by “missing” they mean they haven’t heard from the sub, that doesn’t bode well. Sure, could be a communication malfunction and the folks aboard are still alive somewhere at the bottom. What is more likely, that or a larger malfunction causing the destruction of the sub?
Aw hell, that’s just the rating. I bet they designed in a safety factor. Anchors away!
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