Titanic tourist sub goes missing sparking search : news

[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

Unless they are coming up on their own, it takes about 2.5 hours to get down to the wreck, and what I've read online is that these subs carry like edit:12 hours of oxygen. Docs on the submarine show 96 hours of oxygen, this was wrong of me to guess

They need to get a towing vessel to the area, they need to get the rescue sub down to the bottom, winch up, and get back up. 6 hours of work once you're there. That means they have less than 4.5 hours to get on station. It's 1000 miles from Boston. Ain't no ship in the world sailing at under 200 knots.

Bad news only from this. They gotta get up on their own.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You don’t think the host ship they depart from has an emergency vessel ?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

I'd hope that they would, but if they are relying on the coast guard to help out, they aren't gonna get there in time

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I've read a probable scenario about accidents with small DSVs in the book Below(Edit) the Edge of Darkness (about marine biology of bioluminescence and the tech developed by the author to film/record it):

There was a small leak in a valve, used for emergency operation IIRC and the author noticed that going down - she was still light enough to ascend but she said had she been a few hundred meters deeper, she never would have made it back up due to the extra weight.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What you're describing is similar to the leading theory for what happened to the USS Thresher. Flooding occurred and then when the sub went to emergency blow its ballast to surface, ice formed in the piping blocking the pressurized release of ballast water, causing the sub to sink uncontrollably. There's a good gif doing a better job explaining it on the wiki. Interestingly, the evidence used to determine this theory was gathered by Robert Ballard the famous oceanographer who then went on to be the first to find the remains of the Titanic. It all come full circle!

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Eh, here's a question from the bbc article in question:

The vessel weighs 10,432 kg (23,000 lbs) and, according to the website, can reach depths of up to 4,000m and has 96 hours of life support available for a crew of five.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

they must have edited it since then. I have updated my post to reflect the actual info

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Great! I'd still not at all want to be stuck there. Also, just loosing contact with the sub feels like a majorly bad sign.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Id say that it indicates a catastrophic failure most likely, a far more preferable fate if you ask me rather than sitting on the bottom waiting for air to run out.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The BBC article says the sub usually dives with a 4 day supply of oxygen.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 years ago

Trapped in a sub amongst the wreckage of the Titanic is nightmare fuel. I don't think I would have even came up with that on my own, I thought they only send robotic subs down that far.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Wow - those tourists paid $250,000 to be on that submersible.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago (5 children)

The guy in this CBS video points out how shitty the sub "seems." Dude drives the thing with a Madcatz controller!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Jesus Christ, in reading about this, I had been imagining a sleek, high-tech marvel of engineering.

That thing is a slapped-together mess.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Pretty sure the middle is just PVC pipe from the mix-and-match pipe aisle at Home Depot.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I would pay $250k to go down in a sub with parts sourced from home Depot /s

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Just being bolted into that thing is nightmare fuel.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Looks like I can't watch that from Canada :(

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Well isn't that horrifying...

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Makes my skin crawl even thinking of having problems in a submersible.

I do hope everything is ok.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Same

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Oh that kind of sub, I was trying to figure out what the mods were doing at reddit now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

A Titanic tourist sub. There really was a niche sub for everything.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I initially thought this post was about a reddit sub going missing, and I was very confused about why anyone would pay to be part of it, or why there would be a search.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

I feel like a terrible human. I thought exactly the same, and had already scrolled on past. My short-term memory loop made me scroll back up a couple seconds later.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Yep, I thought it was another maliciously compliant reddit sub 'going missing' instead of private.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

"You guys are taking this stuff way too seriously."

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

If I had a penny for every time the Titanic caused a rescue mission, I would have two pennies. Which isn't a lot but it's curious it happened twice.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

first time was the time the titanic sank? hahha

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Rumor has it, the band is still playing

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

They are also playing Nearer, My God, to thee

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Unfortunately, they have only kazoos due to space constraints. Frankly not what you want to hear in what might be your final moments.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

I'm hoping that their engine went off and they're camping nearby titanic

Pressure is so big down there that one micro problem on submarine and whole submarine is gone.

[–] FooSolo 9 points 2 years ago

They really protesting reddit. That sub decided to go dark forever.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Wow....I can't imagine how terrified they must have been. If the sub was destroyed I hope it was quick for them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I think if the sub was destroyed, it was definitely quick for them.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I had no idea that the Titanic made it that close to North America and/or that icebergs are that far South (relatively) in the Atlantic.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Would it make you feel any better if I told you that's probably not a threat for much longer? I'm not a scientist, but my understanding is that spot is probably at a gentle simmer by now.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

TBF I don't think they planned on seeing an iceberg that far south either.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The second one must have hit an iceberg!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The iceberg tasted blood 100 years ago, and it wasn't satisfied. It is a cold-blooded killer.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

$250,000 a seat tourist submarine... The ocean can have them.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

I mean no disrespect to the dead and all, but this has the same vibes as those rich idiots plugging up Mt Everest with their corpses.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

I’ll take “Most Terrifying Ways to Die” for $1000, Ken

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The #Boston coast guard is involved? Weird.

I just wanted to repost this to Boston, but that's something I don't know how to do. I posted the link --but is there a way here to repost?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Absolutely dreadful if there was a catastrophic event. Hope it's just a bad radio.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Its a custom built sub, the guy used parts from RV world and steers it with a Logitech pc controller.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Did it hit an iceberg 🧊

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