Submarine tour of the Titanic goes missing

[KG1]

It's all sad and tragic but it's especially so because a father and son who took this adventure on father's day together were on board. Wow.

 

[actaeon277]

While I am not against jokes and memes, there are some CELEBRATING the death of people because they have money.

One guy with 'marxist' in his 'name'.
Even some people on the left, are telling him to STFU because he's making them look bad.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

While I am not against jokes and memes, there are some CELEBRATING the death of people because they have money.

One guy with 'marxist' in his 'name'.
Even some people on the left, are telling him to STFU because he's making them look bad.

I'm not upset about the memes, but I do think they're kind of in poor taste. Billionaires or not, I'm sure they had families that cared about them. Now if it had been Biden, Harris, Pelosi and Schumer as the passengers, then I'd say have at it!

 

[Peacekeeper3073]

CBS and BBC reporting that the Navy had the implosion event in SOSUS or whatever the current equivalent.

Just that while ago too. Navy pretty much confirmed it.

Update:

US Navy detected Titan sub implosion with top secret acoustic system day vessel went missing

The U.S. Navy said Thursday it detected sounds consistent with an implosion or explosion in the vicinity where the Titan submersible went missing.

www.foxnews.com

 

[actaeon277]

I'm not upset about the memes, but I do think they're kind of in poor taste. Billionaires or not, I'm sure they had families that cared about them. Now if it had been Biden, Harris, Pelosi and Schumer as the passengers, then I'd say have at it!

Dark Humor is a thing.
Not everybody gets it


Just like food in Russia.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

Dark Humor is a thing.
Not everybody gets it


Just like food in Russia.

Oh I'm not opposed to dark humor. Just seemed a little too soon to me. I guess I'm getting soft.

 

[edporch]

It's all sad and tragic but it's especially so because a father and son who took this adventure on father's day together were on board. Wow.

I read a little bit ago that the 19 year old son was scared to go on it, and only went to make his father happy on Father's Day.

 

[manifest destiny]

I never heard of such a thing as underwater tourism. It's sounds like somthing I might have considered... until about 3 days ago. Two and a half miles below the ocean's surface is pretty dang deep.

 

[funeralweb]

I never heard of such a thing as underwater tourism. It's sounds like somthing I might have considered... until about 3 days ago. Two and a half miles below the ocean's surface is pretty dang deep.

I could see diving on wrecks in the Great Lakes. Ocean floor stuff? Probably a hard pass regardless of how sturdy the construction of the vessel.

 

[Cameramonkey]

I could see diving on wrecks in the Great Lakes. Ocean floor stuff? Probably a hard pass regardless of how sturdy the construction of the vessel.

Yeah, if there isnt a chance I could put on a mask and escape, I'm not going. For something cool enough I might risk spending time in a decompression chamber if the SHTF. But that deep? Hells naw.

 

[Ark]

I could see diving on wrecks in the Great Lakes. Ocean floor stuff? Probably a hard pass regardless of how sturdy the construction of the vessel.

Eh. This is pretty much how I'd anticipate dying if I won a hundred million in the lottery. Or a rocket explosion.

"Yo, you hear about Ark? He built a replica of an X15 in his garage and launched it off a 737 he bought from a scrapyard!"

"Wow! How'd it go?"

"Oh, disintegrated immediately. Obviously."

 

[Ziggidy]

Sad

 

[littletommy]

I don’t even like the glass bottom boat at the aquarium in gatlinburg, so I can pretty much rule out ever getting in a submarine.

 

[Ark]

Yeah, if there isnt a chance I could put on a mask and escape, I'm not going. For something cool enough I might risk spending time in a decompression chamber if the SHTF. But that deep? Hells naw.

Fun fact: I toured the USS Cobia earlier today and had the good fortune to have a veteran of the subsequent submarine class along and willing to talk at any opportunity. I got him to go into detail on the escape trunks.

Yeaaah... they sound great until you're looking at one. Especially the telescoping one in the aft torpedo room that has to be ASSEMBLED before you can use it. You seal yourself in a steel pipe the size of a casket and then open a valve to flood said casket with water before cracking the hatch and swimming out without accidentally swimming off into the superstructure and drowning.

It's scary, man. And only good for a couple hundred feet.

 

[qwerty]

 

[miguel]

Wow, I just watched a tour of the inside of the sub. If someone has to drop a deuce, they have to pull a curtain and do it in the front. I would be pretty pissed at someone if I had to wait for them to take a dump to see outside after paying $250K

Man, that breaks the team rules about dumping on the bus, eh?

 

[ghuns]

By listening to the SOSUS system, when the USS Thresher sank, the water is estimated to have reached speeds of 4,000 miles per hour.

And that was shallower.

Even assuming 1/10th of that, 400mph, what condition would they be in?

I did some looking around to satisfy my curiosity. One theory I read said the inside of the sub essentially becomes like the combustion chamber of a diesel engine. The air and hydrocarbons(people) are compressed until it all ignites.

 

[Route 45]

I did some looking around to satisfy my curiosity. One theory I read said the inside of the sub essentially becomes like the combustion chamber of a diesel engine. The air and hydrocarbons(people) are compressed until it all ignites.

Yep.

 

[Ark]

I did some looking around to satisfy my curiosity. One theory I read said the inside of the sub essentially becomes like the combustion chamber of a diesel engine. The air and hydrocarbons(people) are compressed until it all ignites.

Air increases in temperature when compressed. The air in the pressure vessel compressed to 1/375th its previous volume and increased in temperature to...a lot.

But, humans are mostly water, and water isn't compressible, so...? I honestly don't know. There's no precedent for this.

 

[bobzilla]

Oh I'm not opposed to dark humor. Just seemed a little too soon to me. I guess I'm getting soft.

Probably. It’s just how some of us work. It’s how we deal with sad topics.