Wow pay $250,000 to die next to a heap of lost souls at sea, and surely calling it Titan was a sign??
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The whole thing just feels like tempting fate a little too much, doesn’t it.
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Finding them is only a small part of the issue. The bigger problem would be raising this sub in time to save their lives. I fear there is no way to save them, or raise this sub in time.
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Yeh, how the hell do you rescue someone if they are stuck at 3800m below sea level?
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So a scuba and facemask won’t cut the mustard.
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Hire Brad Scott?
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Yeah, there’s no way they are going to be rescued, even if they do miraculously locate them in time.
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This is the letter that’s been going around on social media suggesting that people in the industry were concerned about Oceangate’s safety practices.
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I wouldn’t hold my breath
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118 lives lost in that Russian nuclear submarine Kursk, somewhere in the Barents Sea.
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Apparently knocks have been heard but then went silent today, imagine it was actually because of an air pocket from the Titanic hitting the bottom to a closed air chasm in the inner ocean floor which formed a utopia society from the Titanic survivors in an air pocket of the Titanic…Could be the ultimate sequel to…Goliath Awaits…Titanic Resurrection, just before you call me crazy for a movie check out Goliath Awaits - Wikipedia
It’s on Youtube for free
You don’t.
Military rescue submersibles would not be capable of operating at such depth, because the pressure at that depth is way beyond the survival limit of a military submarine. Other deep sea submersibles are not likely to have a hatch that can be used at such a depth (as you need a trunking to be able to pressurise enough to keep the water out) and I have no idea if the TITAN has a suitable hatch for opening underwater either (military submarines have a hatch of fairly standardised dimensions that a rescue submersible can mate to.)
The terrifying reality is that it is like trying to rescue the Apollo 13 crew when they were in orbit around the moon.
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Yep best case have a sub go to a max 900 metres and drop a hook line another 3 kms and attach to a vessel within 3kms, take into account currents of different degrees of a 3km radius, basically impossible.
And subs don’t have hook lines attached anyway
Fast forward 100 years…Titanium are offering trips to the bottom of the ocean to view Titan visitors visiting Titanic 
Edit: Black Mirror take me on as a writer
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Too deep for me.
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Above us the Waves, an old Brit film about WW2 attempts by subs to sink the Tirpitz, one sub crew sacrifice themselves.
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Not exactly true.
I have been on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico where the ocean bottom is just over 3000 metres and they have submersible robots that go to those depths to do control, maintenance and recovery.
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They will all die
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No, exactly true. ROV’s can operate at those depths (some at least) but they aren’t rescue submersibles. They have no pressure hull and so no accommodation for people. They can be used to wield tools, but they can’t lift a whole submersible and they sure are not bringing people out.
Similarly, there are very few subsea work boats with cranes that have enough rope on the sheave to be able to lower anything to that depth. If there are any with 4000m capacity around, they also have to get to the North Atlantic - probably from Brazil or West Africa (where there are very deep water oil and gas fields - deeper than the Gulf of Mexico). The crew in the Titan will be out of air by the time they sail there.
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No mansplaining boomer, the woman knows her stuff!
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