This sounds like the most terrifying experience imaginable for me. Not that I’d ever sign up for the experience, much less toss a quarter million bucks for the pleasure.
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-us-canada-65953941
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This sounds like the most terrifying experience imaginable for me. Not that I’d ever sign up for the experience, much less toss a quarter million bucks for the pleasure.
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-us-canada-65953941
nightmare fuel
I’d rather be in a sub that imploded than stranded on the bottom waiting for a rescue that probably can’t come
I mean, what if someone had to take a vicious dump during the dive? The horror!Quote:
Originally Posted by BmillsSkier
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfR7qxtgCgY
eagerly awaiting pictures of the new Movie Star and the “rest”…
If it was a giant floatie, then you could cling to it and rise to the surface, like Rose and that door at the end of the movie.Quote:
Originally Posted by Danno
Nm, working with bad data.
But in other news, how can they spend all that money and not get a window seat?
They'll never find it.
I'm pretty sure I read about deep diving submersibles, they could manually drop their ballast weight if they completely lost power and still get to the surface. So I'm thinking hull casualty and at that depth it's all over instantly.
I don't think that is how this one worked.Quote:
Originally Posted by I Skied Bandini Mountain
THERE WAS ROOM FOR JACK ON THAT DOOR.Quote:
Originally Posted by El Chupacabra
One article I read said they had 7 different ways to dump ballast. Agree with the conjecture that they had a hull issue.Quote:
Originally Posted by Danno
Never been underwater in a sub and Imma keep it that way.
So why wouldn't it? Seems like a pretty fool proof safety feature.Quote:
Originally Posted by Danno
Too bad it didn't have more billionaires aboard.
Ok, I’ll be the callous dick so flame away if you want..….
But I really question whether we should be spending tens of millions of public dollars looking for and trying to recover this thing and the people inside it. Let it rest on the ocean floor just like the damn Titanic they wanted to go see. They made a deliberate choice to get in this thing and take the risk. I’m sure it horrifically sucks but they ought to bear the consequences of that choice. This is so far above and beyond a normal and reasonable activity in which one might hope for or expect rescue.
That sub looked like it was made by Stevie Wonder.
$250,000 a ticket and they couldnt afford a rope and pulley to get it back up.
Yep.Quote:
Originally Posted by BmillsSkier
But then there would've been a sequel.
Even if they can dump ballast and float to the surface, they're still hooped unless someone spots it from the air bobbing around. The thing was sealed up from the outside, you can't open it from the inside.
If they're not already dead, they're probably getting hungry. Because there's no "facilities" on board, the lucky folks were given minimal water and not allowed to take much food for their +/- 12 hour excursion.
$250k to be a voyeur at an underwater graveyard...
Oh, to have lots of money to throw away.
I get the sentiment.Quote:
Originally Posted by dcpnz
But worry that folks will start looking at all SAR the same way.
I sometimes make bad decisions.
They retrofitted it to have a shitter - there was a video I saw somewhere with the designer talking showing a small trap door and a privacy curtain in front of the single porthole.
I think this should be a Darwin Award nominee under Technology Hubris.
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Originally Posted by I Skied Bandini Mountain
https://www.theonion.com/coast-guard...PxM7vCQrzidZ8A
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Thank you for your service Jack.Quote:
Originally Posted by El Chupacabra
Air runs out faster and is contaminated with CO2 as people panic.
Zero submersible training and they are better off with fast end of a pressure hull failure at crush depth.
Fireball flowed by implosion fun.
Fingers crossed for a miracle.
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That's at odds with what a reporter who had been on the thing previously said. Basically he said you went behind the curtain and peed in a baggie. However I wasn't there so you could be right BM. The reporter also said that on his trip down they got lost (apparently GPS doesn't work underwater) and never did spot the wreck. They just cruised around down there hoping to come upon it.Quote:
Originally Posted by bennymac
Sure sounds like an awesome vacay!
I hope they got the T-shirt.Quote:
Originally Posted by garyfromterrace
https://i.imgflip.com/7q0ujw.jpg
Ya, I agree that it’s likely a pancake now somewhere on the ocean floor. Hard to believe that it will be found and certainly not w anyone still breathingQuote:
Originally Posted by I Skied Bandini Mountain
At least no one has to clean the head now
Maybe sending a submersible to every Billionaire is the next step
Jack's shit has probably decomposed by now.Quote:
Originally Posted by BmillsSkier
I think he was originally on the door. So that means Rose helped Jack off the door.Quote:
Originally Posted by BmillsSkier
Which billionaire risk would you rather take if you had the money...
Hop on one of the suborbital "space flights" company ships
Or
Take a dive to the bottom of the ocean in a metal tube with one window and controlled by a generic Playstation controller.
???
Golf clap.Quote:
Originally Posted by El Chupacabra
I hope she got the t-shirt.Quote:
Originally Posted by riser4
https://i.imgflip.com/7q0vns.jpg
Yeah I think it was a later addition. I was trying to get a sense of what the interior was like and came across this video that shows it:Quote:
Originally Posted by garyfromterrace
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2055832643563
Would be shitty if the modifications for a toilet led to a hull failure…
I’ll see myself out
Viewport window was only rated to 1300 meters, they went to 4000 meters.
I’m hoping for an implosion and instant death.
I just heard on the radio that the stepson of one of the billionaires posted on Facebook, "my stepdad is lost in a subarine at sea, please send thoughts and prayers"
And then posted a pic of himself at a Blink-182 concert 15 minutes later.
Prayers that the estate lawyers don't take a monstrous chunk of the inheritance.Quote:
Originally Posted by BmillsSkier
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Now I'm hearing those rowdy Orcas did it
Those scamps!Quote:
Originally Posted by I Skied Bandini Mountain
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Originally Posted by BmillsSkier
you do realize, both of those things could be true at the same time, right?
“So can I push the flush button while we’re down here?”Quote:
Originally Posted by bennymac
https://media.tenor.com/hrhLa4mTp8MA...eboiz-crab.gif
does the guy on the toilet get his own video game controller?
maybe they shoulda pressed up up down down left right left right B A start
Absolutely. It sounds like the appropriate level of concern given the stepson of a billionaire.Quote:
Originally Posted by m2711c
https://media.giphy.com/media/5toopd...0K0u/giphy.gifQuote:
Originally Posted by BmillsSkier
Is musk working on a rescue plan or happy a few more billionaires are off the list?