OceanGate Titan submersible incident

[Art Decade]

Coast Guard searches for missing vessel visiting Titanic wreck with 5 people on board

The vessel lost contact with its mother ship an hour and 45 minutes after its dive began Sunday, the Coast Guard said.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[GNL]

Coast Guard searches for missing vessel visiting Titanic wreck with 5 people on board

The vessel lost contact with its mother ship an hour and 45 minutes after its dive began Sunday, the Coast Guard said.

www.nbcnews.com

How morbid.

 

[GinAg (39)]

Titanic KILLS AGAIN

 

[Art Decade]

What a harrowing watch.

 

[Star]

I wonder if they'll find this titanic sub

 

[Soldi]

I don’t think they’ll find it at Glastonbury.

 

[big ron]

I don’t think they’ll find it at Glastonbury.

If anyone can find it there, I can

 

[floppet]

I wonder if they'll find this titanic sub

Having just been reading about it, even if they'd paid me £200 grand I wouldn't have got in that thing! It looks like it was knocked up in a back garden shed.

 

[lolly]

Having just been reading about it, even if they'd paid me £200 grand I wouldn't have got in that thing! It looks like it was knocked up in a back garden shed.

I thought it looked like a giant fleshlight.

 

[big ron]

Having just been reading about it, even if they'd paid me £200 grand I wouldn't have got in that thing! It looks like it was knocked up in a back garden shed.

It really does look like a GCSE project

 

[Star]

Having just been reading about it, even if they'd paid me £200 grand I wouldn't have got in that thing! It looks like it was knocked up in a back garden shed.

Classic case of more money than sense, I imagine the trip wasn't cheap.

 

[jyxz]

I thought it looked like a giant fleshlight.

That was my first thought

 

[octophone]

That sub has been crushed like an empty can of Stella outside a football stadium.

 

[floppet]

Classic case of more money than sense, I imagine the trip wasn't cheap.

It was $250000 (£195000) per person according to the newspapers. A quarter of a million dollars per person! So that's half a million dollars paid by the bloke with the teenage son.

 

[Sheena]

What are the odds of anyone still being alive? Surely it’s broken down so power gone and all its anti pressure and oxygen systems aren’t working anyway, right?

 

[big ron]

What are the odds of anyone still being alive? Surely it’s broken down so power gone and all its anti pressure and oxygen systems aren’t working anyway, right?

Its either crushed at the bottom of the sea or bobbing about on the surface lost. Apparently it communicates with the control ship by fucking TEXT MESSAGE

 

[floppet]

What are the odds of anyone still being alive? Surely it’s broken down so power gone and all its anti pressure and oxygen systems aren’t working anyway, right?

They don't know what's wrong with it but they think it might be trapped in or on the actual wreckage of the Titanic, it's one-button operation which I assume is just up or down. If they went in too close and got snagged on the wreck it's curtains anyway. Just been reading up on it further and this vessel has no safety certificates and has never been inspected by any safety authority. It doesn't help that they can only receive text messages (if the equipment is even working) and have no way of contacting the outside. Even if they did manage to get it back to the surface somebody outside it has to undo the bolts so they still might suffocate. I think death would be a blessed release if it hasn't already happened.

 

[Sheena]

HAPPY DAYS THEN!

 

[VoR]

I feel like this warrants a topic.

I haven't read too much on this as it's just too nightmarish to imagine. But was this a company that regularly offered this 'service' or a hare-brained one-off?

Because if it's the former, YIKES. Worst PR week since Peloton killed Mr Big.

 

[Art Decade]

An oddball assignment that he probably didn't think too much of at the time and now he's the closest thing they can find to an expert on these submarines.

CEO and founder was onboard and it doesn't seem like there's much of a company to speak of without him.

 

[Dark Carnival]

What a harrowing watch.

‘Don’t miss the opportunity to be part of history’

mhmmm

 

[Phoenix]

RIP to this man’s caresr

 

[Art Decade]

Missing Titanic Sub Once Faced Massive Lawsuit Over Depths It Could Safely Travel To

Court documents reveal a former OceanGate employee had several safety complaints over the tourist submersible—and then he was fired.

newrepublic.com

Missing Sub Boss Was Previously Sued for Fraud in Florida

A Florida couple booked for the Titanic trip accused OceanGate Expeditions founder Stockton Rush of “fraudulent inducement” and “unfair and deceptive acts” in a February lawsuit.

www.thedailybeast.com

Fyre Festival at the bottom of the ocean.

 

[ZenGiraffe]

I really hope they are found alive for the press conference the CEO will have to give after this

 

[jivafox]

Millionaires coming face to face with the deregulation they love so much.

 

[vespertine]

A few minutes later...

 

[vespertine]

Can't miss the Blink 182 concert whilst your stepfather is at the bottom of the North Atlantic, oxygen depleting by the moment.

 

[ZenGiraffe]

Can't miss the Blink 182 concert whilst your stepfather is at the bottom of the North Atlantic, oxygen depleting by the moment.

I mean, at least go see Paramore or something

 

[GNL]

RIP to this man’s caresr

Lots of journalists out there who don't realise they're not meant to be doing PR.

 

[Ellie]

I swear if I was a billionaire and had £250k to just throw away, I’d pick a random person who needs it and buy them a house.

 

[vespertine]

Yeah really, billionaires not satisfied with life decide to go in to deep space or miles down in the sea, with nothing but a Nintendo controller to navigate the unknown. Meanwhile 80 migrants drowned last week in search of the bare minimum in life.

NEXT!

 

[VoR]

 

[dmlaw]

I assume that all of the rest of the employees of this company will currently be making sure that all safety violations lead back to the CEO so that none of them have to go to prison.

 

[cwej]

I said this on Twitter but I am really struggling with the fact there are people seemingly taking glee in rich people dying what is quite a horrible death (including a 19 year old boy). It does seem crazy that the company are running at all, but I still feel bad for the people ffs.

Also, whilst I agree with what Ellie says about - how do we know these people haven't done fantastic philanthropic things AS WELL?

The same level of media focus was given when the Thai football team got lost in those caves - so it's not just a rich person thing, which seems to be what some people are taking offence to. It's just an 'interesting', if morbid, story.

 

[cwej]

This man though. I have less sympathy for than the other 4 to be honest. He's put other people at risk. By all means, take your own risks but not on other people's behalves.

 

[Kratz]

I swear if I was a billionaire and had £250k to just throw away, I’d pick a random person who needs it and buy them a house.

That’s because you’re normal. These billionaires seem to succumb to megalomania very quickly.

 

[cwej]

Like seriously though, regardless of who the people are the levels of anxiety the whole story is giving me as someone NOT in there. I just can't even imagine how awful it would be.

 

[Ellie]

Like seriously though, regardless of who the people are the levels of anxiety the whole story is giving me as someone NOT in there. I just can't even imagine how awful it would be.

I think we all agree with that. Most people are mainly just shocked that this kind of trip is even a THING to begin with and that they sign waivers knowing the risks involved, all for what? Bragging rights? It’s not even like Skydiving where there’s a thrill involved.

I knew James Cameron has been done several times even after making the movie, and I’m not sure the reasons for that either.

 

[cwej]

Just for fascination surely. It's like the Wright Brothers trying to fly - I'm sure plenty of people said 'all for what'? They were doing something no-one had ever done before and other people died in the pursuit of it.

Same as people going up into space. Just checked and currently the statistics are that 2.3% of people that have attempted to go into space, have died doing so. Death rate for those climbing Everest is 1% (and there are 4% deaths to successful attempts). The pursuit of expanding the world we live in is full of risk.

I don't want to do any of those things myself and I'm sure they knew there was risk but I do understand why people would want to. And I don't think people are quite as scathing when someone dies trying to climb Everest for example.

 

[RJN]

Can't miss the Blink 182 concert whilst your stepfather is at the bottom of the North Atlantic, oxygen depleting by the moment.

I hope they performed I Miss You so he could grieve appropriately