Tourist submarine on expedition to Titanic wreck goes missing

[bambam]

It was supposed to be a 3 hour tour.

 

[BIKER13]

It was supposed to be a 3 hour tour.

too soon? but that tune went through my head as I typed my post

 

[bambam]

Cost?---$250,000 per seat. No peanuts.

 

[Grub Master]

Is this the first time or have they had other dived to the Titanic? I hope they are found alive and well, but the military should be reimbursed for the expenses incurred even if they are not found. It is not the taxpayers responsibility to foot the bill to rescue thrill seekers, especially rich ones.

 

[lostchild]

Read that you cannot open it from the inside, so even if it breaches the surface, if you do not have a 1 1/2" socket with a 4 foot handle on a surface craft you are gonna die. "Shudder"

That fact alone would be a deal breaker for me.
Can’t imagine their horror if they’ve surfaced somewhere out of the search zone, comms dead, sitting there waiting to suffocate.

 

[bambam]

 

[User170512]

Saw this earlier:

The US Coast Guard has confirmed that a Canadian P-3 aircraft detected "underwater noises" in a search area for the missing Titanic sub. US media, citing internal US government memos, described them as "banging sounds"

Praying for a miracle.

 

[hozjo]

Read that you cannot open it from the inside, so even if it breaches the surface, if you do not have a 1 1/2" socket with a 4 foot handle on a surface craft you are gonna die. "Shudder"

I saw some footage where they were using a cordless dewalt drill to attach the door, it then cut away but hopefully someone came by with a hydraulic torque wrench or something later. You really trust they tightened all 17 of those bolts properly and didn't do eight, get interupted by something look away for a second skip one and do 8 more. Or maybe the billionaires wife wired a bit of money to leave some bolts lose.

I still think most likely options are fatigue of either the carbon fiber tube, the plexiglass, or the epoxy holding the tube to the titanium ends, some sort of electrical failure of a critical system or onboard fire, getting stuck in the wreckage/other floating debris (

towards the end of this piers morgan piece on it the doctor they are interviewing talks about how when he was a correspondent reporting on a dive to the titanic years ago they got stuck in a current which trapped them against the titanic's propeller for an hour and he thought he was going to die).

 

[Please Delete]

I saw some footage where they were using a cordless dewalt drill to attach the door, it then cut away but hopefully someone came by with a hydraulic torque wrench or something later. You really trust they tightened all 17 of those bolts properly and didn't do eight, get interupted by something look away for a second skip one and do 8 more. Or maybe the billionaires wife wired a bit of money to leave some bolts lose.

I still think most likely options are fatigue of either the carbon fiber tube, the plexiglass, or the epoxy holding the tube to the titanium ends, some sort of electrical failure of a critical system or onboard fire, getting stuck in the wreckage/other floating debris (

towards the end of this piers morgan piece on it the doctor they are interviewing talks about how when he was a correspondent reporting on a dive to the titanic years ago they got stuck in a current which trapped them against the titanic's propeller for an hour and he thought he was going to die).

Missing Titanic tourist sub could be stuck in famed shipwreck 12,500 feet underwater

The missing Titanic-bound tourist submarine carrying could be stuck in the 111-year-old shipwreck at the bottom of the Atlantic Offican, the US Coast Guard said.

nypost.com

 

[User170512]

I saw some footage where they were using a cordless dewalt drill to attach the door, it then cut away but hopefully someone came by with a hydraulic torque wrench or something later. You really trust they tightened all 17 of those bolts properly and didn't do eight, get interupted by something look away for a second skip one and do 8 more. Or maybe the billionaires wife wired a bit of money to leave some bolts lose.

I still think most likely options are fatigue of either the carbon fiber tube, the plexiglass, or the epoxy holding the tube to the titanium ends, some sort of electrical failure of a critical system or onboard fire, getting stuck in the wreckage/other floating debris (

towards the end of this piers morgan piece on it the doctor they are interviewing talks about how when he was a correspondent reporting on a dive to the titanic years ago they got stuck in a current which trapped them against the titanic's propeller for an hour and he thought he was going to die).

If they're not through bolts, I'm not sure how important tightness would even be. The hatch would be so pressed on by the pressure (6,000+ PSI, roughly 400 atmospheres) at those depths, you'd have to blow it off with dynamite.