Hopefully a good outcome ahead.
Sub named Titan.
It just ocurred to me, naming the company OceanGate may have been short sighted.
It's a very sad situation.
The words "lost at sea" have a horrible resonance for seafarers.
If properly engineered it could work, but we are talking about amateurs here. How do undersea data cables work? And there’s more than data could be transferred up and down. To say it’s impossible is underthinking it. The engineers here were certainly underthinking 🙄
I've seen the both of them but there's no chance i'd get into that Titan one after i seen the inside and how it runs.
Isn't there just one billionaire in board?
As I said earlier in the thread, if it had wheels, I wouldn't get into it if it was to bring me 400 metres down the road.
What's the point in saying you wouldn't get into it? You never had the chance to get into it. Plenty of people would get into it. People did get into it and now they are missing.
Does it make you feel happy knowing that something went wrong with the knowledge that it you had an opportunity to, you wouldn't get into it?
The launch ship Polar Prince was built in 1959, nearly 65 years old, Antiques Roadshow material on the sea.
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:380909/mmsi:316006460/imo:5329566/vessel:POLAR_PRINCE
Does it make me feel happy? Are you for real?
What country is the company operating this service in?
From memory, and given the forum I'll be corrected if wrong 😁, there is very strict rules once you are ferrying paying passengers in terms of fit out of craft/sea worthiness etc.
Is this a matter of both parties to contract turning a blind eye to the fact the craft was uncertified by any independent body?
Will there be criminal consequences? (I note CEO of Oceangate is in the submarine).
I think it was about 7 hours before they reported it missing. I know communications had failed before but still.
Titan ic
It operates from St John’s, Newfoundland & Labrador Province in Canada, supposed to be governed by below compliance rules
This is an interesting watch - They interview a CBS reporter who went on the sub. He mentions how after 37 feet his dive had to be aborted due to mechanical failure.
503 server error when you attempt to click on Titanic discovery voyage.
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Some abc or nbc guy on newsnight talking about his near death experience stuck on the titanic
Think these people expect total safety
He must be very old.
So it wasn't fully tested, not tethered and uncertified. What could possibly go wrong?
This was an accident waiting to happen. I hope they are found alive, but its needle in a hay stack at this stage.
Madness. Hopefully if they arent found they died instantly and didnt have to wait to suffocate.
All the experts are chancers. None of them have been in a position like this before.
I believe all knew the risks involved in this so not much you can say on that. All deep sea missions are risky.
Are you sure you saw that? I highly doubt there is anyone still alive who was on the titanic...maybe you were mistaken?
The CEO of Oceangate:
You know, at some point, safety just is pure waste. I mean, if you just want to be safe, don’t get out of bed. Don’t get in your car. Don’t do anything. At some point, you’re going to take some risk, and it really is a risk/reward question. I think I can do this just as safely by breaking the rules
Pretty sure they were on a submersible that got caught on the wreck.
The ship sank 111 years ago, like.
No sympathy at all, I have to say. The RMS Titanic is a graveyard, and should be left alone out of respect to those that perished when it went down. Footage of the wreck has been published - and, as stated, much better than one is likely to see from a jerry-built submersible - so just keep away. Common sense would have told me to avoid going down in this thing, but money doesn't buy sense - they thought their money could buy them the right to treat a graveyard as a tourist attraction . . . they got more than they bargained for. Titantic 1, over-privileged (but stupid) 0. How much has looking for these idiots cost the rest of us:@?
I may get in trouble for this but I feel it's wrong to put so much effort into saving a few rich people in a sub that chose to be there than 500 people that maybe trapped in an a air bobble in an upturned trawler that had very little choice to be there. No disrespect but come on. It would be better to bring back 500 lost souls to families than 5
Yeah, I this will be a 404 unfortunately.
If the only chance of finding them alive is if they've surfaced, is there anyone organising a croudsourcing search of satellite imagery of the area? I think similar was done for MH370.
With the way this was designed, and the blatant disregard for safety by the company and the owner, it is amazing that this is only happening now!
Wow...just wow....not words I'd be comfortable reading from any ceo operating anything I'd want to travel on/in
I mean the sleeveens that lie about safety and skimp on it are probably worse but I find it hard to believe people would read that and get in anything operated by the guy never mind something as high risk as this ..
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