Oceangate Statement, “We now believe that [all crew] have sadly been lost.”
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#3Sub debris found: The tail cone of the submersible was found approximately 1,600 feet from the bow of the Titanic on the sea floor, the US Coast Guard said Thursday. Officials said it was consistent with a "catastrophic loss of the pressure chamber."
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#4"The Titan began its descent Sunday to explore the wreckage of the Titanic, located about 13,000 feet below sea level in the North Atlantic Ocean, with an estimated 96 hours of life support. The expedition was billed as “a chance to step outside of everyday life and discover something truly extraordinary” and cost each participant $250,000, an archived version of OceanGate’s website shows.
"However, the cramped vessel lost contact with its mother ship about 1 hour and 45 minutes into its dive, did not surface as expected and has not been heard from since.
"Aboard the Titan were Rush, the OceanGate CEO and founder, along with Harding, a British businessman; Pakistani billionaire Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman Dawood; and Nargeolet, a French diver, according to relatives and social media posts.
"Earlier Thursday, the US Coast Guard said it found a “debris field” in the search area near the Titanic that, according to a memo obtained by CNN, has been assessed to be from the external body of the submersible." [1]
The ocean is very, very deep. The Titanic is 13,000 feet below sea level, and the submersible was scheduled to take 2.5 hours just for the descent.
EDIT: corrected feet/meters
[1] https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/22/us/submersible-titanic-oceang...
Re: Oceangate Statement, “We now believe that [all crew] have sadly been lost.”
#5Move fast, break things, ignore safety protocols :-(
Re: Oceangate Statement, “We now believe that [all crew] have sadly been lost.”
#6Sub debris found: The tail cone of the submersible was found approximately 1,600 feet from the bow of the Titanic on the sea floor, the US Coast Guard said Thursday. Officials said it was consistent with a "catastrophic loss of the pressure chamber."
"catastrophic loss of the pressure chamber" is a much better way to die than slowly running out of air in a super cramped container with a bunch of people.
Re: Oceangate Statement, “We now believe that [all crew] have sadly been lost.”
#7Sub debris found: The tail cone of the submersible was found approximately 1,600 feet from the bow of the Titanic on the sea floor, the US Coast Guard said Thursday. Officials said it was consistent with a "catastrophic loss of the pressure chamber."
"catastrophic loss of the pressure chamber" is a much better way to die than slowly running out of air in a super cramped container with a bunch of people.
It could have been the latter, followed by the former.
Re: Oceangate Statement, “We now believe that [all crew] have sadly been lost.”
#8Move fast, break things, ignore safety protocols :-(
You're not ignoring safety protocols if you don't have them to begin with.
Re: Oceangate Statement, “We now believe that [all crew] have sadly been lost.”
#9Well, this explains a lot... they didn't have a window rated for the right depth and weren't really testing whether the hull was de-laminating according to the whistleblower, so we have a few guesses as to why the sub would just implode.
The lack of contact would be because nobody was alive to contact, which is honestly better, at least they had a quick death instead of slow suffocation.
And the banging noises are probably either the sub imploding or from debris falling to the ocean floor.
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#10"The Titan began its descent Sunday to explore the wreckage of the Titanic, located about 13,000 feet below sea level in the North Atlantic Ocean, with an estimated 96 hours of life support. The expedition was billed as “a chance to step outside of everyday life and discover something truly extraordinary” and cost each participant $250,000, an archived version of OceanGate’s website shows. "However, the cramped vesse…
I think you meant 3800 meters which is about 12500 feet