"Debris field" found near Titanic in search for missing sub, U.S. Coast Guard says

The sub went missing while carrying five people to the wreckage of the Titanic.

Ducky 50 points 3 years ago

Apparently the debris found was "a landing frame and rear cover from the submersible". So it sounds like they didn't have to suffer slowly.

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riktor 29 points 3 years ago

I’m surprised by the amount of people who thought they would die from running out of oxygen in 96 hours or whatever it was. At that depth the tiniest structural failure and that sardine can is going to blow into pieces, including the occupants.

They were dead days ago when they first went missing.
A few innocent people are the victims of one conman’s dream of selling titanic tours.

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1bluepixel 18 points 3 years ago

At that depth the tiniest structural failure and that sardine can is going to blow into pieces

The opposite of blowing up, actually.

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econpol 16 points 3 years ago

Not sure I'd call him a con man, if he believed in it himself. He was on the ship, if I heard right.

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Suedeltica 9 points 3 years ago

The possibility that was haunting me was that the Titan might have surfaced but couldn’t communicate its location, so the passengers were just bobbing along, trapped and running out of oxygen, while searchers simply didn’t find them in time.

I guess the other nightmare would’ve been if the Titan got caught on something deep underwater and couldn’t surface or communicate even though the submersible was intact.

As it was, I assume/hope they didn’t know what was about to happen and didn’t suffer.

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trekkie1701c 16 points 3 years ago

Source? I'm really curious to see what they found.

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shiftenter 22 points 3 years ago

https://www.theguardian.com/...

There's a press event scheduled for 19:00 UTC.

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