Submersible used to take tourists to view wreck of Titanic goes missing in Atlantic Ocean, sparking search and rescue mission.
The second one must have hit an iceberg!
The iceberg tasted blood 100 years ago, and it wasn’t satisfied. It is a cold-blooded killer.
It’s like these guys didn’t even watch Titanic 2.
If I had a penny for every time the Titanic caused a rescue mission, I would have two pennies. Which isn’t a lot but it’s curious it happened twice.
first time was the time the titanic sank? hahha
Wow - those tourists paid $250,000 to be on that submersible.
It reads like there are no tourists on this trip, just crew. Or the firm is cruel in only caring about retrieving the crew.
I felt like they were calling the passengers crew as like, an umbrella term? The one guy I’ve seen named is a tech billionaire.
It reads like this ‘tragedy’ is marketing to other people that have a quarter million dollars for a submarine ride.
Hopefully this incident kills the entire notion of extreme vacationing… but it probably wont
Rumor has it, the band is still playing
They are also playing Nearer, My God, to thee
Unfortunately, they have only kazoos due to space constraints. Frankly not what you want to hear in what might be your final moments.
Did it hit an iceberg 🧊
Hopefully not
They stopped for a nap and a little snack.
Well isn’t that horrifying…
Makes my skin crawl even thinking of having problems in a submersible.
I do hope everything is ok.
Same
Trapped in a sub amongst the wreckage of the Titanic is nightmare fuel. I don’t think I would have even came up with that on my own, I thought they only send robotic subs down that far.
Oh that kind of sub, I was trying to figure out what the mods were doing at reddit now.
A Titanic tourist sub. There really was a niche sub for everything.
I mean…that would be kinda weird
I’m hoping that their engine went off and they’re camping nearby titanic
Pressure is so big down there that one micro problem on submarine and whole submarine is gone.
Absolutely dreadful if there was a catastrophic event. Hope it’s just a bad radio.
Its a custom built sub, the guy used parts from RV world and steers it with a Logitech pc controller.
Um, holy fck. What made anyone think this was a good idea???
Wow…I can’t imagine how terrified they must have been. If the sub was destroyed I hope it was quick for them.
Article says it carries 4 days of life support and oxygen on board so there’s still some chance they’re okay. Maybe rescuable, one hopes.
Suddenly losing contact usually implied catastrophic failure… that would be the preferable scenario in my opinion.
I think if the sub was destroyed, it was definitely quick for them.
The #Boston coast guard is involved? Weird.
I just wanted to repost this to Boston, but that’s something I don’t know how to do. I posted the link --but is there a way here to repost?
Maybe they set sail from somewhere in Mass.? Their website appears to be down atm.
Looks like a jurisdiction thing–a Canadian ship launched it though.
The submersible was reported missing after it was overdue by a couple of hours on Sunday evening, according to Chief Mi’sel Joe — head of the Mi’kmaq band which owns the ship from which the submersible is launched.
I initially thought this post was about a reddit sub going missing, and I was very confused about why anyone would pay to be part of it, or why there would be a search.
“You guys are taking this stuff way too seriously.”
I feel like a terrible human. I thought exactly the same, and had already scrolled on past. My short-term memory loop made me scroll back up a couple seconds later.
Yep, I thought it was another maliciously compliant reddit sub ‘going missing’ instead of private.
“Whaleberg, right ahead!”
In all seriousness, I hope everyone makes it out (up?) okay.
The guy in this CBS video points out how shitty the sub “seems.” Dude drives the thing with a Madcatz controller!
Looks like I can’t watch that from Canada :(
Jesus Christ, in reading about this, I had been imagining a sleek, high-tech marvel of engineering.
That thing is a slapped-together mess.
Pretty sure the middle is just PVC pipe from the mix-and-match pipe aisle at Home Depot.
I would pay $250k to go down in a sub with parts sourced from home Depot /s
Just being bolted into that thing is nightmare fuel.
There’s nothing wrong with that at all.
The US military literally uses Xbox controllers for a lot of their drones and tech.
It’s kind of a rare move by the Pentagon of actually spend smartly.
Why spend millions on R&D to develop something that already exists and has been iterated based on massive operator feedback a dozen times over decades? It’s literally a platform that has been designed and honed to operate vehicles of every shape and size.
