Burial at sea...
Since Sunday, the 21-foot tourist submersible named the Titan had gone missing, news sources repeated the same story simply because they had no hard facts. Thursday morning, Debris found 500 meters from the Titanic are believed to be from the missing submersible Titan. The only confirming fact at this point is an implosion failure and all on board have perished.Who was on board?
HAMISH HARDING
SHAHZADA DAWOOD and his son SULEMAN
PAUL-HENRI NARGEOLET
STOCKTON RUSH
What did they expect to see?
A once-in-a-lifetime close-up viewing experience of the Titanic that went down 100 years ago.
Whats next?
Additional searches to recover the bodies and all parts of the submersible.
Investigations as to how and why this disaster occurred.
Lawsuits upon lawsuits...
Comments (21)
Reports, each paid $125,000 - $250,000 to go to the depths of the ocean where the maker of the submarine cut cost on material and a game control was used the pilot the sub.
The expensive toys and games of the wealthy could be better use to help the less fortunate.
There were some redundant systems for emergency to get the craft back to the surface but, the entry/exit hatch can only be opened from the outside. So they had to be docked for that to happen.
The latest I heard was all means of communication were lost within a few hours into the excursion.
Since it was an experimental vehicle that carried passengers for profit, they may or may not have had some safety regulations or requirements. All that will be will be brought up in an investigation.
Whatever the comments on here 5 people have lost their lives in a tragedy at sea. Can we not respect this and stop having an inquest as to the cause and leave that to the authorities concerned.
R.I.P
We all wonder how this could have happen and with good reason.
Lawsuts I think is tasteless, but anyways o.p didn't really mean to overfocus on that I'm sure.
I know many have been following this since news first emerged, as I have..
My first thoughts were I had no idea that people participated in this kind of activity, quickly followed by claustrophobic, panicked feelings about being sealed in a capsule on land, sea or otherwise, with no form of escape..
I just hope these people passed without suffering and can only think of their loved ones now
We all wonder how this could have happen and with good reason.
Lawsuts I think is tasteless, but anyways o.p didn't really mean to overfocus on that I'm sure.
Not everyone questions why people do things that would appear insane to the average person.
Look back in history at explorers that have died, 5 expeditions to the Antarctic .The North West Passage springs to mind, The climbing of Everest which has claimed over 300 lives. Some people love a challenge .
No-one except those on the submersible knows what happened .The young lad who, as Secret pointed out,was rather scared of the project may have had a panic attack and disturbed the balance so we should at least show some respect for their demise don't you think.
Because it sounds like they've been sent down there in what amounts to a snow globe. To lose it on the descent suggested implosion to my mind even before the debris.
While it drew more attention for the 100 year anniversary, I feel the explorers weren't considering the supernatural.
Mermaidhair did a blog about the Titanic that offers lots of details.
I linked it here:
I would never put myself in jeopardy to begin with but how much information was divulged to passengers in regards to safety standards...
A foolish voyage...no doubt...
When 4000m is max dept for the vessel, or thereabout, and Titanic is at say 3999 (..)
then I would agree with the gent who passed on the offer as he thought this was less than professional.
I mentioned floated which was the wrong word a stuff up but hey I don't bother making extra posts to correct my mistakes which are many
I mentioned floated which was the wrong word a stuff up but hey I don't bother making extra posts to correct my mistakes which are many
Yes poor bstrds onboard but atleast they felt no pain.
Now I hope future dives to Titanic will be done only with
approved vessels.
Cheers