Debris field found in search area for missing Titanic submersible: Coast Guard
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The Coast Guard's post on Twitter gave no details, such as whether officials believe the debris is connected to the Titan.
  • tl;dr bot@lemmy.worldB
    38·
    2 years ago

    tl;dr:

    NEWFOUNDLAND, Canada - The U.S. Coast Guard said Thursday that an underwater vessel has located a debris field near the Titanic in the search for a missing submersible with five people aboard, a potential breakthrough in the around-the-clock effort. The search for the missing submersible on an expedition to view the wreckage of the Titanic passed the critical 96-hour mark Thursday when breathable air could have run out, a grim moment in the intense effort to save the five people aboard. The Titan submersible was estimated to have about a four-day supply of breathable air when it launched Sunday morning in the North Atlantic - but experts have emphasized that was an imprecise approximation to begin with and could be extended if passengers have taken measures to conserve breathable air. MORE: Why rescue mission for Titanic submersible is so difficult. At least 46 people successfully traveled on OceanGate’s submersible to the Titanic wreck site in 2021 and 2022, according to letters the company filed with a U.S. District Court in Norfolk, Virginia, that oversees matters involving the Titanic shipwreck.

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  • Zamboniman@lemmy.caOP
    28·
    2 years ago

    That’s awful, but perhaps better than stuck for hours or days inside of a dead, dark, cold submarine at the bottom of the ocean as the oxygen slowly runs out.

        • Notorious@lemm.ee
          111·
          2 years ago

          Not in the way that it would have happened in an environment that’s CO2 levels are slowly increasing.

        • RealM@kbin.social
          3·
          2 years ago

          I think the problem is more being stuck in a dark small and cramped space with 4 other people for 96 hours, where there is no on-board toilet and you just don’t know if help will arrive in time or not.

          Compared to that, I think an instant death due to implosion sounds preferrable.

        • teflocarbon@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          That is what happens. Confined spaces that have little oxygen are extremely dangerous and have had quite a few deaths because of them. Those who are working in them literally just feel dizzy and confused, fall asleep and die from the lack of oxygen. There’s about 100 deaths per year in the U.S. Sometimes even rescuers die because they don’t know about it as well. They try to rescue, get confused and die. Hypoxia is a terrifying thing.

  • DarkSpoon@lemm.ee
    24·
    2 years ago

    I can’t be the only idiot who didn’t realize the Titanic went down that close to Maine/Newfoundland. I’m 38 years old and never once even thought about where they actually sank.

  • -RYknow@sh.itjust.works
    19·
    2 years ago

    Incase anyone is wondering… Little clip of an implosion

    RIP to those who parished. I think most can take solace knowing that if it turns out to be true that it was an implosion, it would have been instant, and the occupants likely felt nothing. .

    • nieceandtows@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 years ago

      For others confused like me, this is a clip of some random implosion somewhere else, not the clip of the submersible imploding

    • AgileBed@kbin.social
      1·
      2 years ago

      Read over on Reddit that an implosion would have taken 0.029 seconds, while the brain needs 0.150 seconds to register stuff.

      Don’t quote me on the actual numbers, though.

      • _sigma@kbin.social
        3·
        2 years ago

        I think it is from here:

        Catastrophic Implosion of a submersible explained:
        When a submarine hull collapses, it moves inward at about 1,500 miles per hour - that’s 2,200 feet per second.
        The time required for complete collapse is 20 / 2,200 seconds = about 1 millisecond.
        A human brain responds instinctually to stimulus at about 25 milliseconds. Human rational response (sense→reason→act) is at best 150 milliseconds.
        The air inside a sub has a fairly high concentration of hydrocarbon vapors.
        When the hull collapses it behaves like a very large piston on a very large Diesel engine.
        The air auto-ignites and an explosion follows the initial rapid implosion. Large blobs of fat (that would be humans) incinerate and are turned to ash and dust quicker than you can blink your eye.
        Info Source: Dave Corley, former Nuke sub officer

        https://twitter.com/olilondontv/status/1671951053753909255?s=61&t=tYcx9K8IT1b1jHEqELZ4Vg

      • Lantech@kbin.social
        1·
        2 years ago

        unless of course there was some creaking and cracking noises first, then maybe a little spray of water.

        • -RYknow@sh.itjust.works
          0·
          2 years ago

          At that depth, I feel like creaking and cracking is probably common. However, I don’t think there would be any spraying as an indicator. Based on this tweet I saw earlier.

          • Antik@lemmy.ml
            1·
            2 years ago

            Yeah but they had to get to that depth. With the pressure gradually increasing, I don’t see why it’s not possible for them to hear creaking and groaning as the pressure increased, until they eventually reached fatal depth.

  • IgnoreKassandra@lemmy.world
    19·
    2 years ago

    I feep bad for the 19 year old who got dragged along by his dad, but honestly as an endeavor it was kind of begging for a disaster to happen.

    Like if you go back and look at interviews from a while ago the guy is talking about how bullshit the safety regulations are and how hes not going to follow them because thats what innovation is all about.

    To be honest, good riddance. The world is better off without a handful of billionaires who spend their money gawking at mass graves.

    • Landrin201@lemmy.ml
      201·
      2 years ago

      It pisses me off that 6 ultra-wealthy people disappear in a sub that they got in FOR FUCKING FUN turns into an international story and caused taxpayer dollars from multiple countries to go into searching for them. Even though, once again, this was entirely optional for them and they knew the risks going in, and in fact paid for those risks. It’s been the focus of a large part of the internet for 2 days now, and the news won’t shut up about it.

      Meanwhile, a boat carrying hundreds of migrants crashed 3 days ago, HUNDREDS of people are dead, and the news treats it as a footnote. It isn’t getting talked about by half the threads on reddit and lemmy. Nobody is posting long, concerned posts about how it’s “so awful” people are talking poorly about the migrants. Those people were trying to get a better life and they just get ignored, but some dude decides he wants to pay 500k to take his son to the fucking titanic because that seems cool and suddenly it’s an I ternational search and rescue effort at the bottom of the goddamn ocean

      • 3rdBlueWizard@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 years ago

        News cycles are weird faddish things. Don’t mistake news for any sort of reality.

        Back in 1988, multiple countries sent ice breaking boats to the arctic to save 3 whales. It was a whole news cycle very similar to this.

        Was that concern translated to concern and action to help whales in general? Nope. People only cared about those specific 3 whales.

    • nix@midwest.social
      7·
      2 years ago

      3 of the passengers were lifelong explorers - the ex french navy guy, the ceo, and the billionaire that had already gone to space. I believe those three probably fully consented to the risks, and I don’t have any particular sympathy for them.

      But the other guy didn’t have an adventurous background, and I wonder if he really understood what he was getting into. Still, he was an adult responsible for himself.

      The teengager however… no way he was fully aware of the risks. Teens still think they’re invincible, especially rich ones. Him I feel sorry for.

  • philz@lemmy.world
    2·
    2 years ago

    So crazy.

    But yea I guess all things considered it’s a better option than suffocating/freezing to death. What a terrible situation.

  • owiller@kbin.social
    1·
    2 years ago

    I will not celebrate peoples’ deaths, but I will not necessarily mourn them either. Their relatives certainly did not ask for this (regardless what you think of them), and they have to deal with this for the rest of their lives. Maybe some will get over this, maybe some will not.

    At least it’s a relief that there was no suffering.

  • ArugulaZ@kbin.social
    1·
    2 years ago

    Question… why wasn’t this an unmanned, remotely controlled submarine with a front-mounted camera? If it had been destroyed, that would have been a lot of money up in smoke, but no lives lost.