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Tourist submarine exploring Titanic wreckage disappears in Atlantic Ocean

Landslide said:
$250,000.00 plus for a ride in a tourist sub to view the titanic first hand.
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“Tickets to view the shipwreck can go as high as $250,000, according to OceanGate Expeditions, one of the companies that offer submarine rides to the site”

Clickbait much?

Hopefully everybody turns out OK after this. That’s a very demanding environment. It’s still a little surprising to me that they can offer commercial tours.
 
Bacho said:
. It’s still a little surprising to me that they can offer commercial tours.
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REALLY???

They built a whole structure so people could gawk at the Arizona. You have what …1000 sailors on it?
 
The thought of dropping a cool quarter mil (almost 2x my house price) and having a malfunction at the bottom of ~12K feet of water petrifies me to no end. I didn't think I was claustrophobic, but apparently a CT machine was tight enough to freak me out :confused:
 
Bacho said:
“ That’s a very demanding environment. It’s still a little surprising to me that they can offer commercial tours.
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I have to admit that this tidbit took me by surprise also as I had no idea there was a Titanic tourism industry. On the other hand, Blue Origin will take you on an 11 minute ride to space and SpaceX will sell you a ticket to the moon, even though they don't quite have the rocket to get you there yet.
 
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Never understood the fascination with the Titanic. Cool story, yeah, but it was just a ship built by people and they misjudged certain factors. Now it is at the bottom of the ocean. What is there for scientists to study?
And now possibly other people have lost their lives just for going there.
 
I find it hard to believe that they don't know exactly where the sub is........at all times.

That sub should have beacons on it. The ship should have a Hipap pole sticking out the bottom of the hull. A survey program on a computer will show you exactly where it is. It will show you where it is and how deep among other things.

When I'm working, every diver has a beacon on them so I know where they are. The diving bell has a couple beacons on it. One works at 37.5kHz and we have a handheld receiver so we can find a lost bell.

Point is that none of this is new.

There should also be a way to float the sub to the surface.
 
Just heard on the news that the sub IS supposed to surface in the event of a problem.

Floating up from 12k feet, currents could surface that thing miles and miles away from the mother ship.
 
gt1guy said:
Just heard on the news that the sub IS supposed to surface in the event of a problem.

Floating up from 12k feet, currents could surface that thing miles and miles away from the mother ship.
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So shivering and starving free floating. That’s better than passing out, out of air, while shivering and starving
 
grumpy356 said:
REALLY???

They built a whole structure so people could gawk at the Arizona. You have what …1000 sailors on it?
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The Arizona is under like 5' of water in the harbor. A bit easier to make it a tourist destination than a boat 12k' under water 370 miles off shore. :laughing:
 
Pt_Ranger_v8 said:
The thought of dropping a cool quarter mil (almost 2x my house price) and having a malfunction at the bottom of ~12K feet of water petrifies me to no end. I didn't think I was claustrophobic, but apparently a CT machine was tight enough to freak me out :confused:
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I had the same experience in the ct scan machine
 
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