70-96 hours

Softball Bat · Post by **Softball Bat** » Tue Jun 20, 2023 12:17 am

Titanic tourist submersible goes missing with search under way

A massive search and rescue operation is under way in the mid Atlantic after a tourist submarine went missing during a dive to Titanic's wreck on Sunday. Contact with the small sub was lost about an hour and 45 minutes into its dive, the US Coast Guard said. Tour firm OceanGate said all options were being explored to rescue the five people onboard. Tickets cost $250,000 (£195,000) for an eight-day trip including dives to the wreck at a depth of 3,800m (12,500ft). Government agencies, the US and Canadian navies and commercial deep-sea firms are helping the rescue operation, officials said.

On Monday afternoon, Rear Adm John Mauger of the US Coast Guard told a news conference: "We anticipate there is somewhere between 70 and the full 96 hours available at this point."

Hamish Harding, a 58-year-old British billionaire businessman and explorer, is among those on the missing submarine, his family said.
On social media at the weekend, Mr Harding said he was "proud to finally announce" that he would be aboard the mission to the wreck of the Titanic - but added that because of the "worst winter in Newfoundland in 40 years, this mission is likely to be the first and only manned mission to the Titanic in 2023".

He later wrote: "A weather window has just opened up and we are going to attempt a dive tomorrow."

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65953872

Oh the irony!
A submersible going to view the Titanic is missing.

Darwin certainly approves!

Screw_Michigan · Post by **Screw_Michigan** » Tue Jun 20, 2023 12:31 am

Softball Bat wrote: ↑Tue Jun 20, 2023 12:17 am Oh the irony!

Darwin certainly approves!

He certainly does. Hopefully no one on the submersible reproduced.

Softball Bat · Post by **Softball Bat** » Tue Jun 20, 2023 12:47 am

I see that Phibes had already posted about this here -----> viewtopic.php?p=1078883#p1078883

My apologies, sir!

mvscal · Post by **mvscal** » Tue Jun 20, 2023 12:50 am

Softball Bat wrote: ↑Tue Jun 20, 2023 12:17 am Oh the irony! A submersible going to view the Titanic is missing.

Sounds like a new attraction. Titanic Plus! Now with extra nautical graves!

Carson · Post by **Carson** » Tue Jun 20, 2023 3:28 am

They are trying to reach the flat ocean bottom.

L45B · Post by **L45B** » Tue Jun 20, 2023 3:37 am

“Once More….”

Dr_Phibes · Post by **Dr_Phibes** » Tue Jun 20, 2023 3:45 am

Mikey · Post by **Mikey** » Tue Jun 20, 2023 1:36 pm

Dr_Phibes wrote: ↑Tue Jun 20, 2023 3:45 am

Biggie · Post by **Biggie** » Tue Jun 20, 2023 2:03 pm

They went deep and quiet to avoid a close aboard with a Luna class destroyer. What you've gotta do in these situations is you trust the captain, you trust the crew.

Sudden Sam · Post by **Sudden Sam** » Tue Jun 20, 2023 3:31 pm

I bet they’re under a lot of pressure.

Meat Head · Post by **Meat Head** » Tue Jun 20, 2023 3:57 pm

Breathless excitement

FiatLux · Post by **FiatLux** » Tue Jun 20, 2023 7:02 pm

Maker of the lost Titanic sub once told a reporter that 'at some point, safety is just pure waste'

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/ma ... a8f1&ei=79

Their guts are splattered all over the ocean floor and they didn't feel a thing.

Meat Head · Post by **Meat Head** » Tue Jun 20, 2023 8:24 pm

FiatLux wrote: ↑Tue Jun 20, 2023 7:02 pm
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/ma ... a8f1&ei=79

Their guts are splattered all over the ocean floor and they didn't feel a thing.

That's a fukked up link trying to force an app on the user. Some top drawer shit level marketing going on there. Did you even click it much less read it?

Carson · Post by **Carson** » Wed Jun 21, 2023 4:54 am

Good news: banging sounds indicate at least one of them is still alive.

Bad news: at least one of them has shit in that tin can by now.

Diego in Seattle · Post by **Diego in Seattle** » Wed Jun 21, 2023 12:07 pm

Every rich guy wants a libertarian paradise until he needs two different militaries to do a search & rescue operation, and then we should all chip in for public services, right?

Screw_Michigan · Post by **Screw_Michigan** » Wed Jun 21, 2023 12:09 pm

Jack up taxes on the rich to save them from themselves.

Sudden Sam · Post by **Sudden Sam** » Wed Jun 21, 2023 2:29 pm

Screw_Michigan wrote: ↑Wed Jun 21, 2023 12:09 pm Jack up taxes on the rich to save them from themselves.

RACK!

The Whistle Is Screaming · Wed Jun 21, 2023 3:58 pm

Biggie wrote: ↑Tue Jun 20, 2023 2:03 pm They went deep and quiet to avoid a close aboard with a Luna class destroyer. What you've gotta do in these situations is you trust the captain, you trust the crew.

Has he made any crazy Ivan's?

mvscal · Post by **mvscal** » Wed Jun 21, 2023 4:02 pm

Maker of the lost Titanic sub once told a reporter that 'at some point, safety is just pure waste'

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/ma ... a8f1&ei=79

Well, he has had a few days now to contemplate the relative wisdom of that approach assuming he wasn't crushed inside his beer can.

mvscal · Post by **mvscal** » Wed Jun 21, 2023 4:39 pm

Diego in Seattle wrote: ↑Wed Jun 21, 2023 12:07 pm Every rich guy wants a libertarian paradise until he needs two different militaries to do a search & rescue operation, and then we should all chip in for public services, right?

It's good training. What the fuck else are they supposed to be doing?

Sudden Sam · Post by **Sudden Sam** » Wed Jun 21, 2023 5:16 pm

Stockton Rush also said he didn’t hire “50 year old white guys” because they weren’t inspirational.

Bet he wishes he’d hired some of those ex-Navy submariners.

Softball Bat · Post by **Softball Bat** » Wed Jun 21, 2023 5:19 pm

When is McCoy going to make his appearance in this thread?

Screw_Michigan · Post by **Screw_Michigan** » Wed Jun 21, 2023 5:58 pm

Words to live ERRRR die by.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/20 ... kton-rush/

“I mean, if you just want to be safe, don’t get out of bed,” he said. “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.”

FiatLux · Post by **FiatLux** » Wed Jun 21, 2023 6:23 pm

Too soon?

Meat Head · Post by **Meat Head** » Wed Jun 21, 2023 6:57 pm

Do they have cable TV? Oxygen please

FiatLux · Post by **FiatLux** » Wed Jun 21, 2023 7:09 pm

If I were a billionaire stuck at the bottom of the ocean I would simply pull myself up by my bootstraps.

Meat Head · Post by **Meat Head** » Wed Jun 21, 2023 9:46 pm

I hope they have sense enough to leave a video recorder going.

To watch the action.

Screw_Michigan · Post by **Screw_Michigan** » Wed Jun 21, 2023 9:51 pm

Meat Head wrote: ↑Wed Jun 21, 2023 9:46 pm I hope they have sense enough to leave a video recorder going.

To watch the action.

Diego in Seattle · Post by **Diego in Seattle** » Wed Jun 21, 2023 10:33 pm

mvscal wrote: ↑Wed Jun 21, 2023 4:39 pm
Diego in Seattle wrote: ↑Wed Jun 21, 2023 12:07 pm Every rich guy wants a libertarian paradise until he needs two different militaries to do a search & rescue operation, and then we should all chip in for public services, right?

It's good training. What the fuck else are they supposed to be doing?

Being available for emergency calls made by much more responsible people, for starters.

Kierland · Post by **Kierland** » Wed Jun 21, 2023 11:23 pm

Ginger Hitler’s irony meter is broken.

Screw_Michigan · Post by **Screw_Michigan** » Wed Jun 21, 2023 11:25 pm

FiatLux wrote: ↑Wed Jun 21, 2023 7:09 pm If I were a billionaire stuck at the bottom of the ocean I would simply pull myself up by my bootstraps.

A hand up, not a hand out

smackaholic · Post by **smackaholic** » Thu Jun 22, 2023 12:14 am

How the fukk did this thing not have some sort of transponder on board that could at least make it clear where they were?

Deep sea exploration carried out by people with cost is no object safety precautions is very risky.

Doing it in a commercial enterprise that needs to show a profit is suicidal. This is not a critique of capitalism, just pointing out that doing insanely dangerous things on the cheap is a bit silly.

smackaholic · Post by **smackaholic** » Thu Jun 22, 2023 12:15 am

mvscal · Post by **mvscal** » Thu Jun 22, 2023 12:17 am

Diego in Seattle wrote: ↑Wed Jun 21, 2023 10:33 pm
Being available for emergency calls made by much more responsible people, for starters.

That's not the way that search and rescue works, dumbfuck.

This is also a far from routine scenario. There are very few real world opportunities to conduct this sort of operation and the experience is invaluable.

mvscal · Post by **mvscal** » Thu Jun 22, 2023 12:21 am

smackaholic wrote: ↑Thu Jun 22, 2023 12:14 amHow the fukk did this thing not have some sort of transponder on board that could at least make it clear where they were?

Who said it didn't?

Diego in Seattle · Post by **Diego in Seattle** » Thu Jun 22, 2023 12:32 am

mvscal wrote: ↑Thu Jun 22, 2023 12:17 am
Diego in Seattle wrote: ↑Wed Jun 21, 2023 10:33 pm
Being available for emergency calls made by much more responsible people, for starters.
That's not the way that search and rescue works, dumbfuck.

This is also a far from routine scenario. There are very few real world opportunities to conduct this sort of operation and the experience is invaluable.

So we should be splurging taxpayer dollars on rescuing billionaires from their own stupidity & negiligence, but...."welfare queens!!"

mvscal · Post by **mvscal** » Thu Jun 22, 2023 12:43 am

We aren't "splurging," you fucking idiot. Those people and their equipment are already on the payroll with the task of search and rescue...which is what they are doing.

Dr_Phibes · Post by **Dr_Phibes** » Thu Jun 22, 2023 4:12 am

FiatLux wrote: ↑Wed Jun 21, 2023 7:09 pm If I were a billionaire stuck at the bottom of the ocean I would simply pull myself up by my bootstraps.

I'd send my crewmates down to the engine room on false pretense, then close the watertight doors. More oxygen for me.

Kierland · Post by **Kierland** » Thu Jun 22, 2023 4:33 am

smackaholic wrote: ↑Thu Jun 22, 2023 12:14 am Doing it in a commercial enterprise that needs to show a profit is suicidal. This is not a critique of capitalism, just pointing out that doing insanely dangerous things on the cheap is a bit silly.

Actually it was, you’re just too stupid to realize it.

Kierland · Post by **Kierland** » Thu Jun 22, 2023 4:34 am

mvscal wrote: ↑Thu Jun 22, 2023 12:17 am
Diego in Seattle wrote: ↑Wed Jun 21, 2023 10:33 pm
Being available for emergency calls made by much more responsible people, for starters.
That's not the way that search and rescue works, dumbfuck.

This is also a far from routine scenario. There are very few real world opportunities to conduct this sort of operation and the experience is invaluable.

Yeah! They should be paying the company owners not the other way around!

Sin,
Pretzelkkkal