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The reporter, who followed an expedition of the Titan from the launch ship, wrote that “it seems like this submersible has elements of MacGyver jerry-riggedness.”
I watched the video in the article. I don’t think I’d be comfortable submerging at all in that thing, let alone all the way down to the Titanic. I hope they’ve had technical issues, blown the ballast and is floating around somewhere waiting to be spotted.
Personally I think the best case scenario is for it to have imploded and they all died instantly. Any other option seems like torture to me.
Surely the best case scenario is that they’re floating around on the surface somewhere. Unless you expect that means an inevitable slow death from thirst and hunger…
Edit: Thank you to the people that noted that they would be shut in from the outside. In that case I’d argue it’s better to float around on the surface and then suddenly die if not rescued before the air runs out. If that’s not an option, I don’t know.
Floating on the surface is only barely better than stranded deep underwater, there’s no hatch for them to open so they’ll still be limited by oxygen and there’s no locator beacon that might help rescuers find them.
No locator beacon?? Like… why the hell not??? Was this whole thing an exercise in seeing how stupid they could be?
Well the sub can’t be opened from the inside, so if they’re floating on the surface they’ll still run out of air if not found. And people really underestimate how hard it is to find small craft in the ocean. You’re looking for a needle in a haystack, with the added twist that the ocean currents move stuff around so the search area grows
Yeah I think they mentioned it was the area the size of Connecticut…
That’s my fear in this case, and it can be occurring at the surface or down below - not sure which is worse.
I hope the best for them as well, but even if they make it to the surface, they can still suffocate because they’re bolted in from the outside.