Rescue options limited if missing Titanic sub is found



Rescue teams are still hoping for a miracle as they search for the missing submersible that was exploring the wreck of the Titanic. CBS News correspondent Roxana Saberi has the latest from Boston.

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32 thoughts on “Rescue options limited if missing Titanic sub is found”

  1. Battery power is the big factor. The water at the bottom is about 34 degrees F. This gradually discharges batteries. Some light from laptops and water are available. A second descent along their DR course to Titanic would be ideal. It could be retraced using these Oil and French robot drones available on scene. If they are on the bottom near titanic it would be salvageable,. Assuming all 5 are still conscious the air could run out effectively tomorrow at noon. They lost contact 1 45 m into a dive of 2 h 30m. So near there?? as a starting point on grid searches of the bottom. Surface searches have been underway for days. The small profile would benefit from a screening flotilla to eye ball the wave tops. And rescue using small Boats to transfer the men.

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  2. ‼If it's not a direct SOS maybe they are banging and TAPPING OUT THE GPS COORDINATES every half hour. they may have access to their data, but not be able to move the vessel.

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  3. No mention that the ceo "didn't want to hire 50 yo white guys" or that their chief engineer was fired when he said "the sub is not safe and needs more testing"?

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  4. all the people in the comments talking about the besy case scenario being they're found, imagine living the rest of your life with that extreme trauma and ptsd, best case scenario they imploded and died instantly

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  5. Truly shocking to read in the London Telegraph that the US authorities have blocked a specialist British rescue team and rescue sub to join the mission with American authorities preferring to use inferior American hardware

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  6. I’m so tired of hearing about submarines on the news every day and giving my thoughts and prayers. We need to ban submarines across the entire US. It’s the only way to avoid these tragedies in the future!

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  7. They're gone. It's practically impossible to recover them. Imagining the cabin hasn't exploded they have about 20 hours of oxygen as i'm writing this. Locating them seem to be the most "difficult " problem but what is truly worst is actually finding a way to get them up. 12,000 feet down and then having to get up would surpass the oxygen limit . It's truly a tragedy within a tragedy.

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  8. Must've been all the focus on diversity and inclusion, they forgot about that other old outdated non rated things like navigating and tracking a submarine and communication and steering a submarine. I'm sure more trainings on D.E.I. ratings will follow.

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  9. Those vechiles should have a series of automatically released beacons, timed to release perhaps at 1/2 of the original oxygen reserves, 1st beacon would be tethered to the vehicle released to one quarter mile floating above the vehicle with flashing light, while simultaneously releasing a second beacon to the surface. Then once oxygen reserves hit 1/3 of original beginning levels, release beacons 3 and 4.

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  10. 96 hours of oxygen, 5,800 psi of pressure, temperature of 4 degrees C, pitch-black darkness, dangerous debris from Titanic shipwreck…all these factors make chances that the Titan crew will be rescued alive very slim…assuming that a rescue team can go down there and get them in the first place. Very likely a futile effort, but because the passengers were all very influential, the Coast Guard and government press on. But in the end we all know that they knew what they were signing up for…bitter and sad, but still the truth.

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