Title had me worried “ Titanic submarine: Billionaire Brit explorer among missing after tourist sub disappears..”

[MileHigh]

Luckily it wasn’t our British Billionaire….. I don’t pray often, but I prayed for these people..

 

[Bruce]

A colleague of mine was just out with this company as medical support. Glad he's not out there now, but knowing him I bet he's wishing he could be there to help. I hope there's a quick recovery and billionaires find other ways to find thrills than to do these crazy adventures.

 

[Tazzieman]

An acquaintance of mine was planning to get a seat on one of those civilian space tours.
Don't reckon his wife and sons will be too keen on it after this sub "problem".

 

[ECrider]

poor sods

definitely sub-optimal

fingers crossed for them, waiting for a rescue at the bottom of the ocean puts my 'sick of waiting' displeasure in context.

 

[DCPU]

Looks like there's not going to be a rescue.

Seen a few things on Twitter though that make you think what were they ever doing being there.

 

[ECrider]

Saw Skynews report on it, found debris etc.

RIP

 

[Eric]

poor sods

definitely sub-optimal

fingers crossed for them, waiting for a rescue at the bottom of the ocean puts my 'sick of waiting' displeasure in context.

Looks like there's not going to be a rescue.

Seen a few things on Twitter though that make you think what were they ever doing being there.

Why do people do lots of things, overlanding, skydiving, climbing Everest, et al. Even horse riding is dangerous. I wonder how many people die on the roads every day.
It's what humans do.

 

[ECrider]

Why do people do lots of things, overlanding, skydiving, climbing Everest, et al. Even horse riding is dangerous. I wonder how many people die on the roads every day.
It's what humans do.

I used to skydive in my 20's. Was a chap up at the airfield (ex army) who was well in his 50's and celebrated his 48th hour of freefall while I was jumping with him. I'll never forget his no nonsense statement "....see you can do this and not die...". I've taken this out of context, it was a fuller conversation and very military-esque way of looking at risks/life.

 

[Tazzieman]

The19yo son didn't want to go in that thing.
I wouldn't insist my sons go skydiving etc.

 

[Deleted member 9046080]

RIP. There is one saving grace, their deaths would have been instant. I can't imagine the amount of pressure Titan was under the time of failure.

 

[DaveB]

Why do people do lots of things, overlanding, skydiving, climbing Everest, et al. Even horse riding is dangerous. I wonder how many people die on the roads every day.
It's what humans do.

Exactly.
I have skydived, abseiled, scuba dived, kicked down doors, walked down a dark lane hunting a killer.
Why do any of us do anything?

 

[ECrider]

he amount of pressure Titan was under

370-380 bars, allegedly.

 

[Tazzieman]

Exactly.
I have skydived, abseiled, scuba dived, kicked down doors, walked down a dark lane hunting a killer.
Why do any of us do anything?

Cos we're bored waiting for god.
I'm sitting in Trieste airpirt writing this. "Ticking away the monents that make up the dull day..."
Maybe I'll go and kick down a door.

 

[Tazzieman]

It also sucks to be a Russian billionaire. This seized superyacht is still anchored off Trieste.

 

[ECrider]

It also sucks to be a Russian billionaire. This seized superyacht is still anchored off Trieste.View attachment 7817611

Quick, wait for crew to go ashore on the p1ss, then swim out and claim squatters rights - we can then flog her through Gibralter auction and buy a Gren for Christian and Vera!

 

[Tazzieman]

Quick, wait for crew to go ashore on the p1ss, then swim out and claim squatters rights - we can then flog her through Gibralter auction and buy a Gren for Christian and Vera!

After they emptied the minibar they just allowed Ukrainians to use it as a hotel.

 

[DaBull]

Cos we're bored waiting for god.
I'm sitting in Trieste airpirt writing this. "Ticking away the monents that make up the dull day..."
Maybe I'll go and kick down a door.

All of here on this Forum are adventures in body if not in mind. Pushing the envelope is what has advanced mankind to where we now live in the space age. It's simply amazing I can walk out on my balcony and from 80 miles away and watch rocket ships launching into space from Vandenberg every 7-10 days. No risk, No Reward. God Bless those pushing the limits. RIP adventures of the Deep. DaBull

 

[Cheshire cat]

In the offshore oil & gas industry. We test our dive bells on a regular basis in order to keep them certified. Some years back, one of our bells was lowered to 200 MSW with one atmosphere internal. (Meaning the bell internal not pressurised. This is a regular test. Unfortunately, the door was not fully castelated. As a result, the door blew open at depth with the camera's instantly going black. The bell was recovered with the assumption there was simply an electrical fault. On surfacing, it was discovered the bell interior had been completely destroyed with metal fittings ripped clean away and virtually nothing inside being recognisable. Imagine the same at twenty times that depth.
Again, in 1983, an explosive decompression from only 60 MSW. Six persons dead in a nanosecond.
For the Titanic explorers, the only merciful thing was that death would have been absolutely instantaneous.
Another point of note. The media talked constantly about O2 running out. I can say with authority that long before they ran out of O2, Carbon dioxide poisoning or hypothermia would have taken them. RIP

 

[DCPU]

Pushing the envelope is what has advanced mankind to where we now live in the space age.

That seems along way from where this sad tale was...a commercial enterprise based on experimental designs and plenty of ignored warnings from peer reviewers.

 

[Tazzieman]

That seems along way from where this sad tale was...a commercial enterprise based on experimental designs and plenty of ignored warnings from peer reviewers.

There are some very dodgy aspects to the whole venture.