Titanic tourist sub goes missing

[rjfp1962]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-6595387...

[peterperkins]

Bloody hell, it's a long way down and I suspect not likely to be a great outcome.

[rjfp1962]

peterperkins said:

Bloody hell, it's a long way down and I suspect not likely to be a great outcome.

My thoughts exactly. I watched a film a couple of nights back about the Russian Kursk submarine disaster. Seeing this story just took me straight back to watching that movie...
Certainly didn't end well for the Kursk!

Lets hope this has a better conclusion....

[768]

2.4 miles down.

Presumably at that depth it's "just" that it's not come back up, not that, say, they normally have comms which aren't coming through either? God knows how anyone can find and get to them within however many hours of oxygen they'd have.

[Richard-390a0]

I've always thought this would be a fascinating journey to take but the thought of something like this happening & cost has always put me right off of the idea.

[Pupp]

Richard-390a0 said:

I've always thought this would be a fascinating journey to take but the thought of something like this happening & cost has always put me right off of the idea.

£195k plus a place according to the Beeb…

[frisbee]

It'll resurface after the Boris vote and Rishi will hop out.

[dirty boy]

96 hours of survival on board....that's not long to locate and return them to the surface, hoping no catastrophic failure of the hull and just loss of systems and they can be returned quickly and safely.

Anything going wrong in those depths is very dangerous though.

[BoRED S2upid]

Who knew this was even a thing? Last place on earth I’d like to go. Hope they can bring them back.

[W201_190e]

Why even go down there, you can see so much more of it for free on the internet.

[CT05 Nose Cone]

Richard-390a0 said:

I've always thought this would be a fascinating journey to take but the thought of something like this happening & cost has always put me right off of the idea.

My thoughts have always been that at least if you get a hole in the side of a boat, you've got a chance of escaping it. But a submarine.........

[BrettMRC]

The only positive is the search area should be fairly small.

Not sure what is actually available and able to respond in a timely manner though.

[normalbloke]

What sort of pressure are we talking at that depth?

[BrettMRC]

normalbloke said:

What sort of pressure are we talking at that depth?

Probably 400bar?

[McGee_22]

BrettMRC said:

normalbloke said:

What sort of pressure are we talking at that depth?

Probably 400bar?

About that - or about 5,500psi in old money. Quite an inhospitable environment.

[normalbloke]

BrettMRC said:

normalbloke said:

What sort of pressure are we talking at that depth?

Probably 400bar?

That’s quite unforgiving.

[gotoPzero]

Thats not good chances of rescue are very low indeed!

[Killer2005]

Been named as Hamish Harding
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamish_Harding

[number2]

BBC says 'trying to re-establish contact', and that they're searching for it.

Deep sea is similar to space in a way (*slightly* more accessible perhaps): you're at the final frontier so to speak, and when things go wrong you're on your own.

Scary as fk.

Do they have a second sub they can send down?

96 hours of life support must include going down and coming back up - how long does that take?

If comms are down, is power down?

[dukeboy749r]

Eight-hour descent.

So, easily the equivalent to get back to the surface.

A colleague of mine is on the Board.

Very sad situation.