"The Titan Submersible Disaster Was Years in the Making, New Details Reveal" - fantastic Vanity Fair article that even features a "Heated Gaming Moment" involving the Mad Catz controller!

[silentbob]

A search and rescue operation is underway for a submersible touring the wreckage of the Titanic | CNN

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The US Coast Guard launched a search and rescue operation for a submersible with five people on board that went missing during an expedition to the wreckage of the Titanic.

Sad to say but it looks like the ship might claim a few more lives for its death tally. I believe James Cameron also had a scary similar moment like this while filming the movies opening scenes.

[CayceG]

No amount of money would get me on a deep sea submarine tour. 

[GeneticBlueprint]

We need to bring the Orcas in for questioning.

[SuperSpreader]

2 hours ago, CayceG said:

No amount of money would get me on a deep sea submarine tour. 

I've been on a submarine tour 

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

The USCG estimates that the sub has between 70 hours to 96 hours of oxygen remaining.

[Jason]

2 hours ago, GeneticBlueprint said:

We need to bring the Orcas in for questioning.

 

I know who can get them to talk. 

 

Spoiler

 

[Kal-El814]

2 hours ago, GeneticBlueprint said:

We need to bring the Orcas in for questioning.

 

I've made the call.

 

[GeneticBlueprint]

25 minutes ago, Jason said:

 

I know who can get them to talk. 

 

  Reveal hidden contents

 

 

23 minutes ago, Kal-El814 said:

 

I've made the call.

 

The creeping time clock on this one means we have to send the only man who can disregard all morals and get them to talk quickly: Jack Bauer 

[SaysWho?]

We went on our first submarine ride this year. Just 150 feet, a boat spotted us on the surface.

 

This was 13,000 feet, my god. It also was a submersible, not a regular submarine, which needs a mothership to do a search and rescue. Hopefully it works. 
 

$250k per person GEE ZUZ.

[CayceG]

Also...

 

The sub is likely NOT equipped with a distress beacon. There's been NO communications about looking for a beacon signal or anything, prompting questions about whether it even has one. 

 

And then there's this. 

[Jwheel86]

23 minutes ago, CayceG said:

Also...

 

The sub is likely NOT equipped with a distress beacon. There's been NO communications about looking for a beacon signal or anything, prompting questions about whether it even has one. 

 

And then there's this. 

 

Quarter mil for a ride on that death trap. 

[Jason]

[TUFKAK]

White people.

[thewhyteboar]

I think I can get behind sending billionaires to their watery graves. 

[Jason]

3 minutes ago, thewhyteboar said:

I think I can get behind sending billionaires to their watery graves. 

 

Behold, the tolerant left. 

[thewhyteboar]

52 minutes ago, Jason said:

 

Behold, the tolerant left. 

Look, we can either tax the shit out of them or seal them up in an unregulated tin can piloted by a Mad Catz N64 controller. 

[Keyser_Soze]

11 hours ago, CayceG said:

No amount of money would get me on a deep sea submarine tour. 

 

[Jason]

Has Elon called anyone involved in this a pedo yet? 

[DarkStar189]

From a Yahoo news article:

"There's no backup, there's no escape pod," Pogue told the BBC. "It's get to the surface or die."

Pogue said that he was hesitant about getting into the submersible in November because the equipment on board appeared to be "improvised" and "off the shelf."

"You steer this sub with an Xbox game controller, some of the ballast is abandoned construction pipes," Pogue told the BBC."

This is according to a November report from the CBS News correspondent David Pogue, who previously took a trip on OceanGate's Titan submersible to see the wreck of the Titanic."

 

Yeah no thanks.

[silentbob]

7 minutes ago, DarkStar189 said:

From a Yahoo news article:

"There's no backup, there's no escape pod," Pogue told the BBC. "It's get to the surface or die."

Pogue said that he was hesitant about getting into the submersible in November because the equipment on board appeared to be "improvised" and "off the shelf."

"You steer this sub with an Xbox game controller, some of the ballast is abandoned construction pipes," Pogue told the BBC."

This is according to a November report from the CBS News correspondent David Pogue, who previously took a trip on OceanGate's Titan submersible to see the wreck of the Titanic."

 

Yeah no thanks.

so the either a) the batteries died on the controller or b) that stick drift on the Xbox controller is worse then we thought

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

6 hours ago, thewhyteboar said:

Look, we can either tax the shit out of them or seal them up in an unregulated tin can piloted by a Mad Catz N64 controller. 

 

 

[Keyser_Soze]

Looks like it's a madcatz controller not an official xbox controller.

In fact the stick placement is of a Playstation controller. Very odd!

[69los]

So that's why Logitech was trending.

[Firewithin]

this has caused me to learn that there are apparently titanic truthers out there in the world

[ort]

This thing has like 2 days of air left... the most likely scenario is they are either stuck in the wreckage somehow or somewhere near it. Imagine what goes through your head when you are trapped in a small metal tube with 5 other people, waiting 3 days to run out of air while completely helpless... 2 miles underwater... slowly waiting to join the 1,500 souls you thought it would be jolly good time to spend $250,000 to have a little gander at...

 

I mean, woof...

[CayceG]

14 minutes ago, ort said:

This thing has like 2 days of air left... the most likely scenario is they are either stuck in the wreckage somehow or somewhere near it. Imagine what goes through your head when you are trapped in a small metal tube with 5 other people, waiting 3 days to run out of air while completely helpless... 2 miles underwater... slowly waiting to join the 1,500 souls you thought it would be jolly good time to have a little gander at...

 

I mean, woof...

 

 

And if they lost power, it's completely dark.

 

 

I would rather the hull implode. 

[ort]

I would have to think they have some sort of battery powered backup lights or a flashlight or something.

[GeneticBlueprint]

6 minutes ago, ort said:

I would have to think they have some sort of battery powered backup lights or a flashlight or something.

 

Dude with the MadCatz controller to steer his ship probably isn't splurging on D-Cell batteries.

[SuperSpreader]

59 minutes ago, ort said:

This thing has like 2 days of air left... the most likely scenario is they are either stuck in the wreckage somehow or somewhere near it. Imagine what goes through your head when you are trapped in a small metal tube with 5 other people, waiting 3 days to run out of air while completely helpless... 2 miles underwater... slowly waiting to join the 1,500 souls you thought it would be jolly good time to spend $250,000 to have a little gander at...

 

I mean, woof...

 

Also hunger and thirst 

[Keyser_Soze]

8 minutes ago, SuperSpreader said:

 

Also hunger and thirst 

 

And shit and piss

[Kal-El814]

I know everyone’s risk tolerance is different and I appreciate that seeing the Titanic IRL would be rad. But the second I learned that this thing gets bolted shut from the outside? Hell fucking no.

[Jason]

9 hours ago, Jason said:

Has Elon called anyone involved in this a pedo yet? 

 

So it's definitely only a matter of time now, they made him look bad.

 

 

[Mr.Vic20]

Divided on this:

 

IRL brain: This is a horrible death to contemplate!

Internet brain: Tiniest Bioshock sounds real bad. 

[Jason]

7 minutes ago, Mr.Vic20 said:

Divided on this:

 

IRL brain: This is a horrible death to contemplate!

Internet brain: Tiniest Bioshock sounds real bad. 

 

Galaxy brain: how do we get the Trumps and Elon into one of these things? 

[finaljedi]

2 minutes ago, Jason said:

 

Galaxy brain: how do we get the Trumps and Elon into one of these things? 

 

Musk for all his talk about being an interplanetary race hasn't taken one ride on any of his rockets.  Bezos and Branson were on the first real flights of their's, Musk is content to watch them on a screen.

 

Also that submarine driver should have told his big brother to not be an asshole and stop hogging the good controller.