Missing Titanic Submersible

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Originally Posted by Diamond Joe

Kinda curious what the dynamic was with the father-son duo.

Was Dad trying to re-connect with his teenage son by doing something dangerous and uber-adventurous together? Or was it son begging Dad for once-in-a-lifetime trip because he got infatuated w/Titanic after watching the movie or doing book report or something??

One thing is for certain though; guarantee you Mom was dead-set against the whole thing.

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[Teen Passenger’s Aunt Says He Was ‘Terrified’ To Go On Voyage

Suleman Dawood, the 19-year-old passenger aboard Titan with his father, told a relative before embarking on the submersible voyage that he “wasn’t very up for it” and felt “terrified” about the journey, his aunt told NBC News.

Azmeh Dawood – the sister of passenger Shahzada Dawood – told the network through tears: “I feel disbelief. It’s an unreal situation.”

Her nephew ultimately decided to go on the trip with his dad because it fell over Father’s Day weekend.

“I feel like I’ve been caught in a really bad film with a countdown, but you didn’t know what you’re counting down to,” she continued. “I personally have found it kind of difficult to breathe thinking of them.”]

Jesus, that’s fucking awful

Ugh that’s terrible.

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Originally Posted by Mustonen

Intimidation/discouragement. The message is “we have secret shit of unknown capabilities so plz fck off ty.” Same reason I let my kids know that I have ways of knowing what they’re up to without letting them know that I have a good friend who’s good friends with a couple of their friends’ moms.

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Your friend collects intel for you while banging the local moms?

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Originally Posted by J. Barron DeJong

Your friend collects intel for you while banging the local moms?

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How the information is recovered is their business and best not talked about. Espionage is a dirty business.

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Originally Posted by Not DJSapp

It's well known that we have microphones listening to the ocean looking for subs. Hell, the last time I was out on a boat tour in Kauai, the tour guide pointed out the listening base and spouted on about it for five minute.

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I remember reading about it in a Tom Clancy novel a long time ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOSUS

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Originally Posted by Not DJSapp

It's well known that we have microphones listening to the ocean looking for subs. Hell, the last time I was out on a boat tour in Kauai, the tour guide pointed out the listening base and spouted on about it for five minutes. What we just did was spend millions of dollars doing some real world quality control testing on the accuracy of the system and called it search and rescue. Given that they found the debris within 48 hours, I'd call it a pretty damn big success. Send the bill to the Navy and call it a day.

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Yeah, they had one in Big Sur, too. Used it to find that sunken soviet sub that the Glomar Explorer tried to recover.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Facility_Point_Sur

Guy I work with was a nuclear sub engineer/sailor When this went down I asked him why can't a sub go find them? He said, "Find them? They're dead. They're not looking because they already know they're dead."

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Originally Posted by Brownski

I remember reading about in a Tom Clancy novel a long time ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOSUS

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Yeah the whole thing has Hunt for Red October vibes.

Carbon fiber hull, crazy

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A song for every occasion

One of our submarines



One of our submarines is missing tonight
Seems she ran aground on manoeuvres
One of our submarines

A hungry heart
To regulate their breathing
One more night
The Winter Boys are freezing in their spam tin

They probably died at the same time they lost commo.

Ocean has been miked since the 60s

Its how they found other subs.

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Originally Posted by SB

They probably died at the same time they lost commo.

Ocean has been miked since the 60s

Its how they found other subs.

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Best timeline I’ve seen proposed to date, not at the same time, but “shortly after”:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-nav...s-ago-6844cb12

And Tom Clancy novels read as a teen is part of what has me tuned in to this part of the story.

Well, one thing for sure, the owners/CEO etc of Oceangate will probably never put another vessel to sea again after the billionaire’s lawyers are through with them. And the lawyers of the other passengers.
I’ll be curious to see how iron-clad whatever waiver they had to sign will actually be.

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Originally Posted by Mustonen

Intimidation/discouragement. The message is “we have secret shit of unknown capabilities so plz fck off ty.” Same reason I let my kids know that I have ways of knowing what they’re up to without letting them know that I have a good friend who’s good friends with a couple of their friends’ moms.

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How good of friends? Milkman good?

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Originally Posted by rideit

Well, one thing for sure, the owners/CEO etc of Oceangate will probably never put another vessel to sea again after the billionaire’s lawyers are through with them. And the lawyers of the other passengers.
I’ll be curious to see how iron-clad whatever waiver they had to sign will actually be.

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We need a traffic court lawyer to opine.

Endlessly.

Pío? You all good?

https://news.yahoo.com/idaho-attorne...171302732.html

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Originally Posted by rideit

Well, one thing for sure, the owners/CEO etc of Oceangate will probably never put another vessel to sea again after the billionaire’s lawyers are through with them. And the lawyers of the other passengers.
I’ll be curious to see how iron-clad whatever waiver they had to sign will actually be.

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No doubt, the CEO was onboard.

Aha, I forgot that.

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Originally Posted by Rock Knocker

How good of friends? Milkman good?

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Well they’re all ladies and I’m not banging any of them and I’m pretty sure they aren’t doing anything to each other either.

But y’all can go on with your fantasies or whatever it is you need out of this tangent. I knew what I was doing.

Has all the dives to the titanic that this company has completed been done in the same vessel? Have there been multiple iterations of this ship? I mean, how many times can the same fucking vessel be subjected to those types of pressures before material fatigue sets in?



and, seriously, where are you livin’ that you’re still able to get milk delivered by some dude?

“Toigo, who is the majority owner of the Vancouver Giants junior hockey team, says in the lead-up to his trip on the vessel, it was made very clear that death was a possibility.

"It says right in it that you can die," Toigo said of the disclosure agreements he had to sign to get on board.

"It makes it very clear this is an experimental ship and it's not certified."

Titan operators made it clear 'you can die' on trip, says Vancouver businessman who rode vessel multiple times

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/briti...nger-1.6885460

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Originally Posted by m2711c

and, seriously, where are you livin’ that you’re still able to get milk delivered by some dude?

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1952 I’d guess.

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Originally Posted by mud

Like driving through Ohio.

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These posts both deserved appreciation.

I'm glad that participation in death sports has expanded past French extreme athletes to filthy rich billionaires.

French?

I think Monsieur Cousteau took it past the Gentleman Submariner level.

Jacques Cousteau was baller.

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Originally Posted by I Skied Bandini Mountain

Jacques Cousteau was baller.

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Which space ship will be the first to blow up with tourists on board (post Challenger) ?

The navy knew it happened in real time. Told the coast guard. I'm sure the Navy have "enough sonar buoys so that a man could walk from Greenland to Iceland to Scotland without getting his feet wet."

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Originally Posted by SumJongGuy

Which space ship will be the first to blow up with tourists on board (post Challenger) ?

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Eh, I wouldn’t exactly call the teacher aboard Challenger a tourist.

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Originally Posted by SB

They probably died at the same time they lost commo.

Ocean has been miked since the 60s

Its how they found other subs.

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Just read that they also lost the transponder (located in a secondary internal pressure vessel) signal at the same time they lost coms, so yeah - everything all at once at 1300 M. They didn't even get close.

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Originally Posted by m2711c

and, seriously, where are you livin’ that you’re still able to get milk delivered by some dude?

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Boulder Colorado

Imagine a place of great wealth abundant wealth and people who live make believe but yes you can

Why did they cram so many people in that tin can? Because Rush needed that many people to cover operational costs?

It was so small that only one person at a time could straighten their legs. WTF?

I couldn't have boarded that thing on dry land let alone take it to the bottom of the Atlantic.

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Originally Posted by KQ

Why did they cram so many people in that tin can? Because Rush needed that many people to cover operational costs?

It was so small that only one person at a time could straighten their legs. WTF?

I couldn't have boarded that thing on dry land let alone take it to the bottom of the Atlantic.

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Stupid Ayn Rand

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Originally Posted by huckbucket

"enough sonar buoys so that a man could walk from Greenland to Iceland to Scotland without getting his feet wet."

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you make your point as delicately as ever

In the town where I was born
Lived a man who sailed to sea
And he told us of his life
In the land of submarines
So we sailed on to the sun
'Til we found a sea of green
And we lived beneath the waves
In our yellow submarine

For here am I sitting in a tin can
Far above the world
The planet Earth is blue and there's nothing left to do

I didn't watch the first movie, and I don't think I'll watch this one either.

More proof money doesn't buy happiness. Being a baller billionaire, paying a half a million to get into a tiny space and be crushed to death. Life, it happens.