Titanic Submersible Tour - Missing

[Redka]

Read this morning that they are actually bolted in to the submersible and can’t get out without external help to release them.
Never get me in one of those even if I had the money. My worst nightmare.

I couldn’t even go in there for two minutes - freaks me out just thinking about it.

 

[Loop]

I can't this ending well now. I can only think it's had a catastrophic failure or got stuck on the wreckage somewhere. I know the area is vast, but I would have thought an airplane would have spotted t by now if it had came to the surface.

Do they even go through any training to confirm they're ok going to that depth?!

 

[sherlock]

Let’s hope next time there’s a boatload of asylum seekers missing at sea as much effort is put into finding them

 

[Ingleby_Flash]

The thing is the titanic is a site where more than 1500 people died. Is it an appropriate tourist destination?
I do hope they’re recovered healthy btw, or if they’re not then I hope there wasn’t the horrendous suffering we can only imagine

 

[newyddion]

I read something like looking for a hot water cylinder somewhere in Northern Ireland.. but you can only look for it from space.

 

[NZBoro1]

Have to say, although I do feel for them and their families (knew the risks), as my better half said this morning - shame that the same level of search and rescue wasn't extended to the migrants in the Med the other day.

 

[WeeGord]

There are reports on periodic banging having been picked up underwater and resources redeployed to the area they've come from. Fingers crossed they can be found alive.

 

[xxlshirts_fit_all]

Have to say, although I do feel for them and their families (knew the risks), as my better half said this morning - shame that the same level of search and rescue wasn't extended to the migrants in the Med the other day.

You mean a group people paying for a journey in a cramped vessel that they chose to get in… there’s a morbid parallel isn’t there, but one event is getting far more coverage and resources than the other…
Both look like having a tragic out come but hopefully the news this morning may give the families in one a bit of hope

 

[afcb_acklam]

Let’s hope next time there’s a boatload of asylum seekers missing at sea as much effort is put into finding them

The Guardian view on danger at sea: looking out for all those in peril | Editorial

Editorial: The contrast between the frantic hunt for a missing submersible and the failure to save migrants drowning in the Mediterranean is illuminating

www.theguardian.com

 

[TheYorkshireTerrier]

Have to say, although I do feel for them and their families (knew the risks), as my better half said this morning - shame that the same level of search and rescue wasn't extended to the migrants in the Med the other day.

I said exactly this to my wife yesterday.

 

[BoroMart]

Apparently the vessels operators had refused to get it reviewed and signed off by industry experts as meeting standards. Red tape, standards and governance who needs them!

 

[Ironops]

I said exactly this to my wife yesterday.

750 people go missing presumed drowned in the med and it gets main story on the news once and then slips from view

2 billionaires go missing in sub and its 24 hour coverage of the search and rescue operation for 3 days and counting, all media outlets main story up to this morning

its almost like some people are considered more valuable than others

 

[Four-All]

The thing is the titanic is a site where more than 1500 people died. Is it an appropriate tourist destination?
I do hope they’re recovered healthy btw, or if they’re not then I hope there wasn’t the horrendous suffering we can only imagine

My thoughts exactly. I was a bit obsessed by the Titanic back in the mid-80s when the wreck was first discovered. The original search team led by Robert Ballard made a point of trying not to disturb anything, apart from laying a memorial plaque on the ship's bow, as it is after all a grave site for over 1500 people, some of whom still had living relatives at the time. Since then, the 'rights' to the ship have been sold off and it has been stripped of artifacts and become a tourist attraction for those with sufficient funds. I just find it all a bit distasteful.

 

[1finny]

Have to say, although I do feel for them and their families (knew the risks), as my better half said this morning - shame that the same level of search and rescue wasn't extended to the migrants in the Med the other day.

I’d go further, for consistency, - if they are rescued, send them to Rwanda

 

[KDG]

One of their sons, or someone claiming to be Hamishs son has tweeted the BBC to say his step dad was onboard

And then tweeted blink 182 to say he was going to go to the show yesterday and hopefully it rocks

Apparently it was a great set

https://twitter.com/x/status/1671255450460000256

At Least he didn't stop believing

 

[The_Lizards_Jumpers]

At Least he didn't stop believing

Wouldn't that work better if he went to see Journey in concert ?

 

[Ingleby_Flash]

At Least he didn't stop believing

There is a Blink 182 song called ‘bottom of the ocean’

 

[exeterboro]

Pretty poor thread this is turning into.

 

[Boro4life]

It's frankly near on impossible to locate this it's a tin can in an area that's bigger than magority of usa states. They could be at any depth in the ocean if they snagged on something. I just can't believe something that costs 200k per person a million pound in revenue each trip can be build so cheaply. They are millionaires surly you'd invest in a proper thing

 

[Boro_Interlinked]

It's frankly near on impossible to locate this it's a tin can in an area that's bigger than magority of usa states. They could be at any depth in the ocean if they snagged on something. I just can't believe something that costs 200k per person a million pound in revenue each trip can be build so cheaply. They are millionaires surly you'd invest in a proper thing

I got the impression it's usually 3 paying tourists a pilot and a content man detailing what they are seeing. So maybe 600k per mission dive but I also got the impression it's an 8 day trip from New Foundland and they try for 5 dive missions swapping the pilot and content man due to tiredness but taking new passengers. So an 8 day trip could by 5x 600k. So I'm guessing it might not have come out yet that there might be people on the mother ship who were due to go down on their assigned dive in the following days.