Titanic tourist sub missing

[agricola]

One of my worst nightmares is being on a submarine/submersible. Being on one at the site of something so frightening, to watch it loom out of the darkness, would be terrifying at the best of times. It seemed only a matter of time since something like this happened.

If anyone else doesn't feel this but wants to, can I recommend either listening to a BBC drama from the 90s called "Close Enough to Touch" or reading a book called "The Admiralty Regrets....", both of which describe the loss of HMS Thetis in Liverpool Bay.

I've seen both and have been fully cured of the notion of ever going on or near a submarine ever again.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

I think a while ago they had a sub go missing and it turned out to be a radio problem. For as long as this has been, its unlikely to be communication problems.

 

[Flavour]

it's a bit like the opposite altitude version of all those cunts who die on Everest

 

[farmerbarleymow]

If the vessel has failed at depth and they're dead, at least the end would likely to be quick. A blessing I suppose.

 

[Cid]

it's a bit like the opposite altitude version of all those cunts who die on Everest

With the added benefit they're not also getting the locals killed.

 

[Cid]

It's going to turn out there was a primary school teacher who'd been gifted the opportunity after saving a puppy from a well or something...

Still, for now I've got limited sympathy for UAE-based aircraft brokers.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

It's going to turn out there was a primary school teacher who'd been gifted the opportunity after saving a puppy from a well or something...

Maybe big bird was on this one.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

it's a bit like the opposite altitude version of all those cunts who die on Everest

Its a bad season this year on Everest:

As the last search and rescue teams hang up their boots and the tent city at Base Camp packs up for the year, expert climbers say several of the 17 people killed or missing and presumed dead this season could have avoided disaster.

“This season was very bad overall,” said expedition organiser Mingma Gyalje Sherpa, of Imagine Nepal Trek and Expedition, whose team was responsible for opening the route to the summit.

“The main reason is that the weather was extremely cold … but there was also carelessness.”

Record Mount Everest season in Nepal also one of its deadliest

Climbers say several of the 17 people killed or missing and presumed dead this season could have avoided the disaster.

www.aljazeera.com

At least three of these were Sherpas rigging gear in advance of the season.

I used to think that I would like to do this, but I've decided that I wouldn't go up there on a bet. Not so much because I'd be risking my life, but risking the lives of others. I'll stick to hiking trails where the only person likely to get hurt by my stupidity* would be me and me alone.

* I have done really, really, really stupid things that were potentially fatal on the trail.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

it would have been more spectacular if a billionaire had been blown up in a tourist space launch but i'll take this

Patience, your time will surely come, Branston’s one is just about to start up again, at double the original cost, bound to go wrong fairly early on.

 

[pseudonarcissus]

This Hamish Harding character who I have never heard of was on the fifth flight of the Evil Overlord's Giant Space Phallus as well. It seems the Space Phallus has flown half a dozen times since Evil Overlord went up in it but the Bearded Wonder's competitor has only been up once since he did.

I'm not sure why he's being described as an "explorer"...he's just a very rich tourist.

 

[SpookyFrank]

I'm not sure why he's being described as an "explorer"...he's just a very rich tourist.

It's 'expat' vs 'immigrant' all over again.

 

[pseudonarcissus]

There are specialist rescue subs that can go that deep I believe so it depends on how soon one can get there.

I'm not sure that there are....if they lost coms and didn't drop the drop weight, I suspect the most likely explanation is implosion of the pressure hull...which at least is quick. I'm not sure sitting around watching the air quality deteriorate for a few days would be a nice way to go.

 

[pseudonarcissus]

It's 'expat' vs 'immigrant' all over again.

I sort of assumed "explorers" got there first...this sounds a lot like an elaborate Cook's tour.

I'm happy with immigrant...and I've even got an invite to next week's consulate KBP!

 

[Fez909]

I'd love it if Elon Musk decides its time to wheel out his experimental sub idea again and we get two billionaires for one

 

[SpookyFrank]

I'd love it if Elon Musk decides its time to wheel out his experimental sub idea again and we get two billionaires for one

And if the sub doesn't work he can just call the Titanic a nonce or something.

 

[Epona]

Frantic search costing millions underway to rescue rich white people

 

[SpookyFrank]

Skip the search, I know exactly where they are.

The bottom of the fucking sea.

 

[Pickman's model]

Skip the search, I know exactly where they are.

The bottom of the fucking sea.

Bet they said the sub was quality

 

[Elpenor]

More coverage than the events off the Greek coast I expect

 

[Epona]

More coverage than the events off the Greek coast I expect

Aye it really throws some perspective on the wall to wall coverage that the tourist sub is getting

People every day dying trying to flee from oppression or bad material circumstances.

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

Could be a very nasty [fatal] & expensive accident for the five people currently missing - not to mention the organising company.

As it has been some hours now, since the initial announcement, I'm losing hope that they've surfaced somewhere off course and have lost communications ...

And the insurance company. The life insurance on a billionaire won't be a cheap payout.

 

[Pickman's model]

And the insurance company. The life insurance on a billionaire won't be a cheap payout.

Reckon it's double indemnity all over again

 

[pesh]

or

 

[Pickman's model]

or

Or 20,000 leagues under the sea, some latter day nemo has them on board a steam punk natilus

 

[Flavour]

And the insurance company. The life insurance on a billionaire won't be a cheap payout.

fascinating legal struggle incoming as life insurance declines to make good on coverage for person killed in experimental submarine with no certification from any regulatory body

 

[Larry O'Hara]

Whereas I’m sure it’d be interesting, if I were to undertake a high(er) risk activity and had hundreds of thousands to spare, I’d rather go up to space for eight minutes in Richard Branson’s rocket.

I’d rather use the money to send Branson Zuckerberg and Bezos into space: one way…

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

Whereas I’m sure it’d be interesting, if I were to undertake a high(er) risk activity and had hundreds of thousands to spare, I’d rather go up to space for eight minutes in Richard Branson’s rocket.

I don't know which would be worse. If a rocket goes wrong, it'll probably blow up. If a sub goes wrong, the hull might still have some integrity and there's the chance of rescue, so it's not necessarily a fatal expedition. But if you're alive down there and don't get rescued. shudders Maybe being blown to smithereens would be preferable?

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

fascinating legal struggle incoming as life insurance declines to make good on coverage for person killed in experimental submarine with no certification from any regulatory body

Yeah, I only saw the video with the reporter reading out the bits from the legal disclaimer after I posted about life insurance payout. Whether that legal disclaimer will, erm, hold water, remains to be seen. Much like the sub.

 

[Tanya1982]

I’d absolutely rather be blown to smithereens immediately.

However, if this thing has failed, that‘s likely what happened. I think the pressure down there means it’s not quick, it’s instantaneous. Presumably though, you’d still have that split second moment of horror as you heard the crack.

 

[Tanya1982]

Btw, do submarines travel with suicide pills? I mean, in case something goes wrong but not wrong enough to compromise structural integrity, and no rescue happens or is likely to. It seems like an option you might want.