It’s supposed to float to the top on its own in an emergency, so I thinking some sort of explosive decompression and they’re all dead. I have thought it would have some sort of emergency sonar location beacon also:
Oh they’re dead all right. Even if by chance there still alive right now by the time they get something there that can rescue them it will be to late.
For only $250k you can go visit the historic site of the Titanic. You can also join the historic wreckage for the price of COST INCLUDED.
Yup, not gonna end well. They have 7 different ways to get to the surface, some are automatic if the power cuts out and other safety measures. That none of them deployed, they’re done for:
LOL. That’s awesome.
Oh sure, some rich folk die while doing something crazy dangerous without any benefit and it’s global news coverage, but Uncle Jed dies doing something equally dangerous that cost his entire bonus, and where’s the news coverage for that?
The amazing wonder submersible - seven different fail-safes that all failed! (You won’t believe #5!)
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On a kinder note, it’s a tragedy for the families of those missing, but it also seems equivalent to getting killed during some “extreme sport” or “war tourism.”
Not for nothing, I won’t be surprised to see this with ‘space tourism,’ either. There are reasons those environments–12,000 feet deep or 130 miles high–have had so few visitors.
What could possibly go wrong?
Fukking idiots. That’d be a LOUSY way to go.
American MEDIOCRITY strikes yet Again. Anyone retarded enough to take this risk deserves it!
My Dad used to do underwater welding in the gulf for platforms, I think he did it for a year before he had to stop for his health.
They would go down in a Bathosphere for long stretches. He said it was great money but scarey as hell, he told me about a hammerhead that kept circling him one day, he said it look as big as a Bus from his point of view.
I couldn’t do it, my beads look like birdshit on dry ground.
Both we will see more of no doubt. I’d be happy as chit to be a space tourist if that kinda $ was no big deal to me, no interest in being in a tiny sub with one tiny window to see boring ship at 13k ft down. No idea why the fascination with that ship.
The unsinkable mini sub meets the unsinkable ship.
More like rapid implosive compression….
That they don’t even have a ping from it is weird…. You’d think that it would have some kind of dead man or other kind of self deploying signaling system…
How far could the thing get? Wouldn’t you follow it on active sonar?
Someone, somewhere must have heard something, if it imploded.
Will anyone admit to listening, or having that technology?
I recall the Scorpion was heard on a passive array at the time it went missing.
Here’s a great idea…send the sub down with a camera and enjoy some pics of the Titanic. Why the hell anyone would want to go for a ride in that coffin to look at the wreckage with their own eyes is beyond me
If you are rich enough it seems possible to run out of ways to waste your money
Any chance we could all chip in and book one of these Titanic trips for George and Alex Soros? Asking for a friend…
I’ll be the one to say it.
It was aliens.
I could think of a hell of a lot better ways to blow 250k. You could take a killer cruise on the QM 2 or Seabourne with that. Or, any number of better things than a dodgy ride in a steel coffin down to 12000 feet to look at a bigger steel coffin.
The Triton 36000/2 built by Triton Submarines is an American made sub, rated to full ocean depth.