Missing Titanic Submersible

**Garth Bimble** · 06-22-2023, 07:21 AM

Had to replace my transmission yesterday...$6K. Was bummed until the wife told me it could have been worse, I could have paid $250K to go for a ride on a sub that sunk.

**ötzi** · 06-22-2023, 07:36 AM

Technically the sinking part was fine.

**El Chupacabra** · 06-22-2023, 07:41 AM

Originally Posted by Jong Lafitte

Am I the only person who thinks that 250 grand per seat for this seems awful cheap when you consider the circumstances? I mean, it’s not a damn carnival ride where you can make 30 dives a day at a million a pop. There’s 4 paying customers for a total of one million bucks? It seems like the tender vessel Polar Prince, and her crew would cost a million for the trip alone.

Like I read somewhere that ocean gate is trying to fund research by offering limited tour activities. What research can you fund when you lose money on the tour operation?

Imagine Robert Ballard in’84 writing grants. “The overall cost to find and explore the Titanic should be about 3 million dollars.” Surely it cost more even in 84 dollars. I had the book as a kid I don’t think I read the whole thing, maybe he does go into the funding aspect. Read the one when he found the Bismarck also.

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It's a loss leader. Get them in the door, get them hooked, and then... shit.

**I Skied Bandini Mountain** · 06-22-2023, 07:44 AM

It's bad enough to be trapped in a tiny sub for 4 days knowing death is imminent, but add in being stuck with a teenager without cell phone service for those 4 days..

**BmillsSkier** · 06-22-2023, 07:44 AM

Originally Posted by ötzi

Technically the sinking part was fine.

Always look on the bright side of life...

**twat** · 06-22-2023, 07:46 AM

As usual i cant agree with you guys. Recreational subbing is one of my favourite past times i have.

Just be a bit more open minded.

What else to do in this world.

Climb the Himalaya.
Visit cinque terre.
Shamanic trip in the amazon.

Go explore the titanic.

This world is so limited.

One of the things you can do to stand out from the masses. The submarine selfie.

**BmillsSkier** · 06-22-2023, 07:55 AM

Gentleman submariner has a very nice ring to it.

**EWG** · 06-22-2023, 08:02 AM

Originally Posted by BmillsSkier

Gentleman submariner has a very nice ring to it.

Wasn’t that the name of Keith Richards’ solo album?

I like that moniker. Straight class.

**subtle plague** · 06-22-2023, 08:02 AM

Originally Posted by BmillsSkier

Gentleman submariner has a very nice ring to it.

I see a Dub Artist or a funk rock band.

**BmillsSkier** · 06-22-2023, 08:03 AM

Originally Posted by EWG

Wasn’t that the name of Keith Richards’ solo album?

I like that moniker. Straight class.

So much class it might need a monocle.

**From_the_NEK** · 06-22-2023, 08:06 AM

Originally Posted by Jong Lafitte

Am I the only person who thinks that 250 grand per seat for this seems awful cheap when you consider the circumstances? I mean, it’s not a damn carnival ride where you can make 30 dives a day at a million a pop. There’s 4 paying customers for a total of one million bucks? It seems like the tender vessel Polar Prince, and her crew would cost a million for the trip alone.

The CBS clip goes into that a little bit. They mention it during the first part of the excursion when the sea was too rough to launch the sub. They had already gone through $1 million in fuel for the tender ship which would make the trip a money loser for Ocean Gate.

**EWG** · 06-22-2023, 08:07 AM

Originally Posted by BmillsSkier

So much class it might need a monocle.

Just like the 1300m rated sub portal. Nice.

**BmillsSkier** · 06-22-2023, 08:08 AM

Originally Posted by EWG

Just like the 1300m rated sub portal. Nice.

There it is! Full circle.

**EWG** · 06-22-2023, 08:10 AM

Originally Posted by From_the_NEK

The CBS clip goes into that a little bit. They mention it during the first part of the excursion when the sea was too rough to launch the sub. They had already gone through $1 million in fuel for the tender ship which would make the trip a money loser for Ocean Gate.

Wait, what? Million in tender vessel fuel? Over how long? That must be multiple trips.

That’s rich even for those gentlemen submariners.

**JimmyCarter** · 06-22-2023, 08:10 AM

Originally Posted by BmillsSkier

Full circle.

Until the pressure gets to it

**summit** · 06-22-2023, 08:11 AM

USS Bedford has been dispatched to force the sub to surface.

**Garth Bimble** · 06-22-2023, 08:15 AM

Originally Posted by ötzi

Technically the sinking part was fine.

Not if it included an implosion.

**summit** · 06-22-2023, 08:27 AM

The bad part of the implosion is that the massive compression would combust the air like a diesel engine flash frying everyone before the water crushed them. The good news is that it would happen faster than neural perception.

The true horror is if they aborted, dropped ballast, and are bobbing about the surface, trapped in their submersible because they are bolted in from the outside and have no radio, no beacon, no dye, no buoy, no flags or mast, nor any other method to be noticeable on the surface. They are being thrashed about in north atlantic swells in a propane tank sized and shaped vessel with no sea keeping design or ability, smashing into each other, no seats, puking and shitting, slowly suffocating and dying of CO2 tox, hypothermia, and dehydration all at the same time.

**ötzi** · 06-22-2023, 08:29 AM

It went down just fine, Garth. Ya know, like yer mom.

I don't think there's a lot of swells down there Summit. Currents, probably so. But I bet it's pretty still. And very quiet. Well except for the sobbing and gasping stuff if they're still alive.

If you were down there (not you in particular, Summit), would you figure that the only thing that increased your odds of getting saved is more time and decide to kill everyone else to get more time? I might. I dunno.

**I Skied Bandini Mountain** · 06-22-2023, 08:29 AM

Originally Posted by summit

The bad part of the implosion is that the massive compression would combust the air like a diesel engine flash frying everyone before the water crushed them. The good news is that it would happen faster than neural perception.

The true horror is if they aborted, dropped ballast, and are bobbing about the surface, trapped in their submersible because they are bolted in from the outside and have no radio, no beacon, no dye, no buoy, no flags or mast, nor any other method to be noticeable on the surface. They are being thrashed about in north atlantic swells in a propane tank sized and shaped vessel with no sea keeping design or ability, smashing into each other, no seats, puking and shitting, slowly suffocating and dying of CO2 tox, hypothermia, and dehydration all at the same time.

And with a teenager with no cell phone service.

**SumJongGuy** · 06-22-2023, 08:31 AM

Humm, I'll have 4 times more breathable air if I kill everyone else right?

**Danno** · 06-22-2023, 08:35 AM

I get that a beacon won't work underwater, but wouldn't it make sense as a failsafe to have a PLB of some kind for the eventuality that summit describes?

**ötzi** · 06-22-2023, 08:38 AM

Originally Posted by SumJongGuy

Humm, I'll have 4 times more breathable air if I kill everyone else right?

Yup.

**ötzi** · 06-22-2023, 08:41 AM

Originally Posted by Danno

I get that a beacon won't work underwater, but wouldn't it make sense as a failsafe to have a PLB of some kind for the eventuality that summit describes?

A studfinder at least.