"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!

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

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Wendy Rush, the wife of Stockton Rush, the OceanGate CEO piloting the submersible that disappeared during a dive to the Titanic wreckage, is a descendant of two first-class passengers who died when the ocean liner sank in 1912, archival records show.

 

[CastlevaniaNut18]

4 minutes ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said:

 

Isidor and Ida Strauss, cofounder of Macy’s. They had a pretty honorable death, choosing to stay together and let younger people on the lifeboats, as they were elderly and had lived their lives. 

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

5 minutes ago, CastlevaniaNut18 said:

Isidor and Ida Strauss, cofounder of Macy’s. They had a pretty honorable death, choosing to stay together and let younger people on the lifeboats, as they were elderly and had lived their lives. 

 

Yup - they were this couple from the movie:

 

[CastlevaniaNut18]

I was basically obsessed with Titanic as a kid. I read everything I could get my hands on. I still retain most of that knowledge because I’m weird like that. 

[Kal-El814]

I know it’s obvious and everything, but I just cannot get over the hubris it takes to think that your jank ass sub won’t sink on a tourist jaunt to gaze at an “unsinkable” ship on the ocean floor.

[LazyPiranha]

Imagine having two separate generations of your family dead at the exact same spot on the bottom of the ocean, but separated by  over a century. 

[CastlevaniaNut18]

1 minute ago, Kal-El814 said:

I know it’s obvious and everything, but I just cannot get over the hubris it takes to think that your jank ass sub won’t sink on a tourist jaunt to gaze at an “unsinkable” ship on the ocean floor.

It’s really something. Definitely not something I would ever want to do. Kinda like extreme mountain climbing. Love to read about it and watch docs, but I’d never actually do it. This seemed especially dangerous, compared to all the research missions that have gone before it. 

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

James Cameron is on ABC right now absolutely eviscerating everything about this company and its contraption.

[mclumber1]

The Titanic was a case of insurance fraud.  Don't change my mind.

[chakoo]

31 minutes ago, LazyPiranha said:

Imagine having two separate generations of your family dead at the exact same spot on the bottom of the ocean, but separated by  over a century. 

The wife, who is the descendent, was not on the sub. FYI.

[GeneticBlueprint]

Even though it was likely quick that is a nightmare death scenario for me. I honestly feel really bad for all of them. Even the ones that should have known better.

[GeneticBlueprint]

Just now, chakoo said:

The wife who has the connection was not on the sub. FYI.

 

Yeah I think he's saying it makes it all the more weird. I'm alive, and two distinct generations of my family are dead at the Titanic sinking site.

[TheLeon]

How long before another group of tourists go down there to see where this group lost their lives? 

[marioandsonic]

48 minutes ago, CastlevaniaNut18 said:

I was basically obsessed with Titanic as a kid. I read everything I could get my hands on. I still retain most of that knowledge because I’m weird like that. 

 

The movie sparked my interest in it.  Even seeing it as a kid, I enjoyed it.  Obviously I was a bit too young to fully understand the romance and stuff, but I deeply enjoyed the technicals and special effects.

[Air_Delivery]

Compression/Decomperssion cycles are a bitch. This is why you have real engineers and submariners in charge. 

[CayceG]

The next private submarine to go to the Titanic will have to add "Nearer My God to Thee" to the playlist. 

[Air_Delivery]

5 minutes ago, CayceG said:

The next private submarine to go to the Titanic will have to add "Nearer My God to Thee" to the playlist. 

I'm partial to this one

 

 

[Firewithin]

truly amazing see the usual suspects blame this on wokness 

[silentbob]

So you wonder the “pings/tapping” they heard were of the sub decompressing and breaking apart.

[CayceG]

6 minutes ago, silentbob said:

So you wonder the “pings/tapping” they heard were of the sub decompressing and breaking apart.

 

That isn't the noise subs make when they implode. 

[Captain Pickle]

18 minutes ago, silentbob said:

So you wonder the “pings/tapping” they heard were of the sub decompressing and breaking apart.

I don’t want to be insensitive but I can’t believe no one suggested it was the orcas have a celebratory drum circle party

[mclumber1]

If you are going to die at sea, this was the most humane way to go, I suppose. 

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

I was wondering if/when this would come into play.

 

WSJ News Exclusive | U.S. Navy Heard What It Believed Was Titan Implosion Days Ago

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Underwater microphones designed to detect enemy submarines first detected Titan tragedy

[marioandsonic]

1 hour ago, Firewithin said:

truly amazing see the usual suspects blame this on wokness 

 

[TUFKAK]

1 hour ago, Firewithin said:

truly amazing see the usual suspects blame this on wokness 

I mean, how do we know it’s not from being woke?

[SuperSpreader]

3 hours ago, CastlevaniaNut18 said:

Yeah, I’d rather the instant implosion. The thought of sitting in complete darkness in that tiny space with little hope just waiting to die is the part that gets me. 

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WASHINGTON—A top secret U.S. Navy acoustic detection system designed to spot enemy submarines first heard the Titan sub implosion hours after the submersible began its mission, officials involved in the search said.

The Navy began listening for the Titan almost as soon as the sub lost communications, according to a U.S. defense official. Shortly after its disappearance, the U.S. system detected what it suspected was the sound of an implosion near the debris site discovered Thursday and reported its findings to the commander on site, U.S. defense officials said.

 

[GeneticBlueprint]

 

This might have been posted at some point already. But, either this system failed. Or it didn't fail and their mechanism for ascent failed. An absolute nightmare if it were the latter.

[Air_Delivery]

I'm guessing the system was a POS or it did detect the failure but it burst so fast it didn't matter.

[ort]

58 minutes ago, Captain Pickle said:

I don’t want to be insensitive but I can’t believe no one suggested it was the orcas have a celebratory drum circle party

 

I can't find it, but I saw a meme the other day that was a bunch of Orca's in a drum circle saying "send down more billionaires!"

[CastlevaniaNut18]

2 hours ago, marioandsonic said:

 

The movie sparked my interest in it.  Even seeing it as a kid, I enjoyed it.  Obviously I was a bit too young to fully understand the romance and stuff, but I deeply enjoyed the technicals and special effects.

I was 10 when the movie released and already knew a plethora of facts. I remember begging my parents to take me to see it and being in awe of how much Cameron got right. And my dad tossing my jacket over my head when the boobies came on screen, lol. 

[marioandsonic]

8 minutes ago, ort said:

 

I can't find it, but I saw a meme the other day that was a bunch of Orca's in a drum circle saying "send down more billionaires!"

 

[SuperSpreader]

12 minutes ago, CastlevaniaNut18 said:

And my dad tossing my jacket over my head when the boobies came on screen, lol. 

 

That's especially funny because I think a girl would know what boobs are better than dad 

[Nokra]

55 minutes ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said:

I was wondering if/when this would come into play.

 

WSJ News Exclusive | U.S. Navy Heard What It Believed Was Titan Implosion Days Ago

WWW.WSJ.COM

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Underwater microphones designed to detect enemy submarines first detected Titan tragedy

As odd as it feels to say so, if they "had" to die, I hope this was how it went. Better an instant death than days of waiting for a rescue that never came. 

[Kal-El814]

 

30 minutes ago, GeneticBlueprint said:

 

This might have been posted at some point already. But, either this system failed. Or it didn't fail and their mechanism for ascent failed. An absolute nightmare if it were the latter.

 

Who knows what this thing was supposed to do, but it's certainly written as though it couldn't possibly detect fast failure, which is going to happen at depth.

 

I've seen the Cameron clip now, and even though I'm not any kind of engineer, my train of thought was somewhat similar to his... there's a ton of insight into how to make deep see diving craft safe, they just can't accommodate tourists because they're built for research. It'd be like someone deciding to make a supersonic aircraft by putting someone in a Radio Flyer shot out of a railgun, just ignoring all common sense and lessons in the name of HURR INNOVATE REGULATIONS BAD 

[Nokra]

Here's the James Cameron interview if anyone else was curious: