Titanic submarine: Rescuers and friends holding out hope in 'race against time' rescue



“This is a trusty submersible, the Titan submersible. They’re good vehicles. I know folks have been on them before.”

Friends and rescuers still believe there is time to rescue a tourist submarine that disappeared while on a mission to the wreck of the Titanic.

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42 thoughts on “Titanic submarine: Rescuers and friends holding out hope in 'race against time' rescue”

  1. Imagine you're in this tiny pod as it's resting on the ocean floor, immense pressure causing the casing to make all sorts of noises, the look of hopelessness on people's faces in the dim light, then you hear a rip roaring ripper…"(Pfffffft) Oooh nooo.. im so sorry guys !! (Pffffft) I've got bad guts from that beef we had last night !!!". 🤢

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  2. As sad as it is to say. Unless they manage to fix the sub itself in that time, there is literally no way they are coming home. When the Kursk sank and had the same scenario I believe the men themselves where in shallower water than the titanic itself, this in turn meant divers could go and inspect life onboard. Even then the time it took to get a rescue submirsable to the Kursk took ages…. So then you think why not just figure out a way to raise the sub…. This in itself is also practically impossible…. When retrieving a large piece from the titanic itself… it took large balloons I believe and even then the lines snapped on the first attempt and a second attempt one was needed … this is almost likely going to go one way and I pray for their families who are gonna go throw immense pain

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  3. Its a painful situation, l don't have words to say, l think something in terms of advancement in innovations like installing robots cameras and detectors communication systems which allows both people from outside the ship to communicate and detect where the ship is, should be implemented in future.

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  4. Why do people need to go down and look at a tragedy that happened over a hundred years ago.. It all seems like a rich mans ego trip that drives these so called adventures.. they are so dangerous.

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  5. Two new tidbits; one of the five people on board the sub, was the CEO of the company. He was the designer and builder. Also, when they lost radio contact with the sub, it was between half and three fourths way to the bottom, so maybe the problem was other than implosion.

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  6. Has the UK team been allowed to help yet. I heard the US coastguard were being reluctant to give clearance? Even though they were the first to scan the titanic and have extremely competent equipment for the job at hand.

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  7. It seems they should at least thoroughly check the destination point of the missing sub’s mission, which is the Titanic wreckage site, so … Why not use the “Deepsea Challenger” sub (which took James Cameron safely to the Titanic wreckage many times), to survey that immediate area, and if the missing sub is found, free it if tangled, then attach a balloon cradle to it that can then be filled with compressed air to help raise it to the surface?

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