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[W:78,878] Titanic submarine: British explorer feared missing after tourist submersible disappears

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Titanic submarine: British explorer feared missing after tourist submersible disappears

A British explorer is feared missing after a submersible used to take tourists to view the wreck of the Titanic disappeared under the Atlantic Ocean.

Up to five people thought to include Hamish Harding, are trapped underwater as the US Coastguard tonight were in a race against time to find the vessel.

The crew, reported lost this morning, has an oxygen supply able to last 96 hours.

British explorer Harding is part of the expedition.
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Sub's been out of contact for seven hours. I can't even begin to fathom how one would go about attempting a rescue mission at depth.
 
Two and a half miles under the surface, nope, no way, Jose.

I wish all aboard are recovered well and healthy, but yours truly ain’t doing it. I read somewhere that a few years ago, it was $150k per and now it is $250k per, nope!
 
The ocean depths are as hostile an environment as is LEO, in space, and ocean is less known and less explored than LEO in space.
 
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The contract with the tourist likely says don't expect to be rescued and the risk is all your own. Best efforts to rescue will be made but....

No liability to the owner and operators. Otherwise a tourist's estate who pays $250,000 bucks could hire 5 high powered lawyers who could sue to unheard of depths.
 
Callen said:
I can't imagine the fear of being down there and unable to make contact........then again I can't imagine getting in the thing to start with!
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Absolutely. While I think seeing the Titanic who be pretty awesome there's no way I'd get in one of those to do so. Nothing to do with claustrophobia but 100% that something would malfunction.

Hopefully they are located before it's too late.
 
Lutherf said:
You don't get "rescued" from a hull breach at 10k feet. You get "recovered", if that's even possible.
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This is assuming a hull breach. It's not a bad assumption, but it's also not the only scenario. They perhaps have lost electrical power and cannot surface unaided. That's probably a second-best-case scenario, with the best-case being they've lost comms, have surfaced, and are bobbing around the North Atlantic hoping for someone to see them. If we assume they are on the bottom, sonar will be next-to-useless in the debris field. The best option that would come to my mind is to hope someone's using hydrophones on the search vehicle, and the survivors would bang on the hull a few times with something heavy at regular intervals to allow them to zero in.

But I've no idea if that would even work.
 
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This is assuming a hull breach. It's not a bad assumption, but it's also not the only scenario. They perhaps have lost electrical power and cannot surface unaided. That's probably a second-best-case scenario, with the best-case being they've lost comms, have surfaced, and are bobbing around the North Atlantic hoping for someone to see them. If we assume they are on the bottom, sonar will be next-to-useless in the debris field. The best option that would come to my mind is to hope someone's using hydrophones on the search vehicle, and the survivors would bang on the hull a few times with something heavy at regular intervals to allow them to zero in.

But I've no idea if that would even work.
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All of the things you mention are fatal, especially at depth. Bobbing around at the surface without coms, as large as the ocean is, and how far from launch point they might be, seems like really low odds in finding them to me, likely the sub, designed to be underwater not surface, might sink anyway.

The number of years it took to find Grissom's Mercury capsule might very well be the number of years before we find this sub, on the bottom someplace. There's just not that many submersibles which can go that deep.
 
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I saw information about a similar offering, for $750,000 to be one of three 'researchers' with two actual researchers who would get to 'ride a 5 man sub to the lowest location ever'. I remember thinking it sounded exciting, but wondered about the safety. Surely it was pretty safe? Today, a similar sounding 5 man submarine has disappeared.

www.cnn.com

June 19, 2023 - Search mission underway for missing Titanic tour submersible

A massive search operation has been launched to find a submersible with five people on board that went missing during a trip to view the wreckage of the Titanic, officials said Monday.
www.cnn.com www.cnn.com
 
Craig234 said:
I saw information about a similar offering, for $750,000 to be one of three 'researchers' with two actual researchers who would get to 'ride a 5 man sub to the lowest location ever'. I remember thinking it sounded exciting, but wondered about the safety. Surely it was pretty safe? Today, a similar sounding 5 man submarine has disappeared.

www.cnn.com

June 19, 2023 - Search mission underway for missing Titanic tour submersible

A massive search operation has been launched to find a submersible with five people on board that went missing during a trip to view the wreckage of the Titanic, officials said Monday.
www.cnn.com www.cnn.com
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Just reading about that a few minutes ago. One of those on board is supposedly Hamish Harding, a British billionaire who lives in UAE and who has flown to space with Blue Origin and done some other extreme adventure type things.

en.wikipedia.org

Hamish Harding - Wikipedia

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This is very sad. I certainly hope this vessel can be recovered with it's human cargo alive!!!.

I know I will never die in a crazy place like this because I have a severe fear of heights and depths, so just leave me here on planet earth, I'm good here...
 
Jessie C said:
This is very sad. I certainly hope this vessel can be recovered with it's human cargo alive!!!.

I know I will never die in a crazy place like this because I have a severe fear of heights and depths, so just leave me here on planet earth, I'm good here...
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Me, too, Jessie.

When I was growing up, I could've done a hand-stand on top of a flag pole, and I wanted to learn to SCUBA drive. But when I hit age 21, something changed. I'm not sure what it was, but now I'm just like you--no heights and no depths.
 
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Jessie C said:
This is very sad. I certainly hope this vessel can be recovered with it's human cargo alive!!!.

I know I will never die in a crazy place like this because I have a severe fear of heights and depths, so just leave me here on planet earth, I'm good here...
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Ain't happening.

Unless that sub can save itself...................it's all over.
 
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