Tourist Trip to Titanic Terribly Turns Tragic

[MrBig 5,375]

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/titanic-submarine-missing-rescue-mission-underway-newfoundland-canada/

Submarine on expedition to Titanic wreck goes missing, "search and rescue operation" underway

Updated on: June 19, 2023 / 11:47 AM

By Emmet Lyons, Tucker Reals

A search and rescue mission was underway Monday morning for a submarine that went missing in the North Atlantic on an expedition to explore the wreckage of the Titanic.  Lt. Jordan Hart of the U.S. Coast Guard in Boston told CBS News that personnel were "currently undergoing a search and rescue operation" when asked about the rescue efforts off the coast of Newfoundland. 

OceanGate Expeditions, a company that deploys manned submersibles for deep sea expeditions, confirmed in a statement that its sub was the subject of the rescue operation, adding that it was "exploring and mobilizing all options to bring the crew back safely."

The company did not say how many people were on board the missing vessel or whether any of them were paying tourists, whom it does take as passengers on its expeditions.

"Our entire focus is on the crewmembers in the submersible and their families," said OceanGate, adding that it was "deeply thankful for the extensive assistance we have received from several government agencies and deep sea companies in our efforts to reestablish contact with the submersible." 

A map shows the point where the RMS Titanic sank in the North Atlantic, on April 15, 1912, about 380 miles southeast of the Newfoundland, Canada coast and some 1,300 miles east of its destination in New York City. Getty/iStockphoto

OceanGate recently said on its website and social media feeds that an expedition to the wreckage of the RMS Titanic, which lies about 400 miles southeast of the Newfoundland coast, was "underway." 

Contacted by CBS News, the Canadian Coast Guard said the rescue operation was being managed by the Boston Regional Coordination Center, and a map showing jurisdictions for the various coastal search and rescue agencies off the North American coast shows the location of the Titanic wreck within the Boston center's area of responsibility.  

Earlier this month, OceanGate said on Twitter that it was using satellite company Starlink to help maintain communications with its expedition to the Titanic.

"Despite being in the middle of the North Atlantic, we have the internet connection we need to make our Titanic dive operations a success — thank you Starlink," the tweet said. The company's website advertises seven-night voyages to see the Titanic wreckage priced at $250,000.

The company last tweeted about the Titanic expedition on June 15.

A visit to RMS Titanic

OceanGate's submersible, The Titan, is the only five-person sub in the world capable of reaching the Titanic wreck, which sits 2.4 miles below the sea surface. CBS News "Sunday Mornings" correspondent David Pogue joined the crew of the vessel, along with a small group of intrepid tourists, for a journey to see the world's most famous shipwreck last year.  

As he got situated in the vessel, which he said had about as much room inside as a minivan, Pogue said he "couldn't help noticing how many pieces of this sub seemed improvised, with off-the-shelf components," including a video game controller that was used to pilot the sub.

This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.

[ChiTownDoc 21,141]

4 minutes ago, MrBig said:

CBS News "Sunday Mornings" correspondent David Pogue joined the crew of the vessel, along with a small group of intrepid tourists, for a journey to see the world's most famous shipwreck last year.  

As he got situated in the vessel, which he said had about as much room inside as a minivan, Pogue said he "couldn't help noticing how many pieces of this sub seemed improvised, with off-the-shelf components," including a video game controller that was used to pilot the sub.

Is this dude crazy or just plain stupid?  I would be fighting to gtfo seeing a video game controller in charge of taking me over 2 miles below sea level…and getting me back.  Fuck all of that.  

[Zepol87 9,185]

Fuckkkkk that shit 

[DefinitelyNotHollywoodColt 12,301]

Nope.

[Deej 76,754]

"It's been 84 hours..."

 

Edited June 19, 2023 by Deej

[4th&Five 41,506]

[BabaYaga 15,288]

You're rich?

You're bored?

You decide a carbon fiber hull and unclassed submersible sounds fun?

Do hookers and blow like everyone else.  

[Nicole44 22,057]

Lots of phobias being triggered lately in the news btw this story and the guy falling off the canyon skywalk and the town in Nevada overrun by crickets…damn.

 

 

[Surly Bevo 24,908]

Well baby, I went down and got it for you.....

 

Ooops

[ztejas 43,411]

28 minutes ago, ChiTownDoc said:

Is this dude crazy or just plain stupid?  I would be fighting to gtfo seeing a video game controller in charge of taking me over 2 miles below sea level…and getting me back.  Fuck all of that.  

Meh. That wouldn't be my main concern. I know that the military uses Xbox etc. controllers extensively. 

https://taskandpurpose.com/tech-tactics/us-military-video-game-controllers-war/

[Deej 76,754]

Peter Madsen wasn't piloting this sub, was he?

[Biff Tannen 45,665]

1 hour ago, 4th&Five said:

Hardcore

[ChiTownDoc 21,141]

5 minutes ago, ztejas said:

Meh. That wouldn't be my main concern. I know that the military uses Xbox etc. controllers extensively. 

https://taskandpurpose.com/tech-tactics/us-military-video-game-controllers-war/

Yeah, I think it’s the combo of how much seemed ‘improvised with off the shelf components’ plus a video game controller.  And I’m up here with all this air while that hoopty ass sub is lost way down below…

[DaysOff 7,947]

Why has anyone posted the obligatory pic yet?

[ztejas 43,411]

6 minutes ago, ChiTownDoc said:

Yeah, I think it’s the combo of how much seemed ‘improvised with off the shelf components’ plus a video game controller.  And I’m up here with all this air while that hoopty ass sub is lost way down below…

I want to know what else was improvised lol. 

Also:

51 minutes ago, MrBig said:

OceanGate's submersible, The Titan, is the only five-person sub in the world capable of reaching the Titanic wreck

[UT_OB1 2,217]

8 minutes ago, ztejas said:

I want to know what else was improvised lol. 

Also:

Well, clearly it can reach the Titanic wreckage, I think the bigger question is the return. 

[Brisketexan 105,059]

Ahh, yes, another story ripped from the pages of "Fuck That Shit Monthly: a Journal of Nope, Nope, No Fucking Way."

[Pam Cummings 9,639]

That sucks and obviously you feel bad for everyone that is affected. But this is just a gigantic nope from me as well. Seems similar to all those people that were killed when the active volcano they were admiring from 5 feet away went......active.....

[C-Man 27,184]

35 minutes ago, DaysOff said:

Why has anyone posted the obligatory pic yet?

[Parliament 14,239]

This tragedy is custom made for SurlyHorns.

[Redneck Mutha 7,954]

29 minutes ago, UT_OB1 said:

Well, clearly it can reach the Titanic wreckage, I think the bigger question is the return. 

And that's really the most important part of the underwater voyage, the return.  Anybody can just take them. 

[AUS-97HORN 11,756]

The only way this thread title would have been better was if the OP was Mr T  rather than MrBig

[Beau Vine 54,206]

5 minutes ago, Redneck Mutha said:

And that's really the most important part of the underwater voyage, the return.  Anybody can just take them. 

[Tailgate 3,021]

Nightmare. Can’t do much at all when you’re 6,000 feet below the surface (said they were halfway when communications dropped). Also saw where it was just five crew and no paying passengers. 

[Blotto 23,487]

49 minutes ago, DaysOff said:

Why has anyone posted the obligatory pic yet?

OK fine

 

 

 

[C-Man 27,184]

15 minutes ago, Redneck Mutha said:

And that's really the most important part of the underwater voyage, the return.  Anybody can just take them. 

[Nice Guy Eddie 13,508]

I wouldn't want to take a tourist submarine that goes 100ft much less 12,500 feet down. 

[wild_turkey 3,159]

Maybe now they can get a new sub and sell a tour to see the wreckage of the first sub. It’s a good business model that can generate new opportunities for itself.

[Blotto 23,487]

 https://web.archive.org/web/20230613051805/https://oceangateexpeditions.com/tour/titanic-expedition/

privacy curtain, lulz.

"Perhaps the 3rd trip through the chili cheese fries buffet was a bit ambitious. Anyhoo, we got any more shitter paper on this bitch?"

[Surly Bevo 24,908]

1 minute ago, Blotto said:

 https://web.archive.org/web/20230613051805/https://oceangateexpeditions.com/tour/titanic-expedition/

privacy curtain, lulz.

 

 

Turn the music up loud?

 

 

[BabaYaga 15,288]

21 minutes ago, Tailgate said:

Also saw where it was just five crew and no paying passengers. 

They were classified as "crew" for insurance purposes - meaning passengers given basic levels of training and reclassified.  Specifically rich folks called "mission specialists"

[BabaYaga 15,288]

10 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

I wouldn't want to take a tourist submarine that goes 100ft much less 12,500 feet down. 

Only sub I want to ride in must be in San Marcos and have a swimming pig!

[tx 3 putt 76,868]

Lot of people in this world with too much money and too little sense 

[C-Man 27,184]

British billionaire explorer is reportedly among the missing: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/breaking-titanic-submarine-british-explorer-30272021

 

[Bevo 13,563]

fucking underwater aggies...

[Telegraph_it 3,357]

The folks that just completed that hi-res 3D scan of the Titanic wreck. 

[Pato del Muerto 52,485]

53 minutes ago, Tailgate said:

Nightmare. Can’t do much at all when you’re 6,000 feet below the surface (said they were halfway when communications dropped). Also saw where it was just five crew and no paying passengers. 

[AUS-97HORN 11,756]

so the story goes from 5 employees to definitely 1 billionaire tourist, maybe more, and some employees???? 

how the fuck is a billionaire "an employee" when hes clearly a fucking tourist

 

 

also serious LOL at that article talking about the billionire... some "expert" says the sub could be tangled up in the wreckage.....  UH... they LOST CONTACT HALFWAY TO THE SEAFLOOR....    how in the holy fuck do you think they could be caught up in the wreck?  to land within 3 miles of the wreck while sinking uncontrolled for more than 6k feet means any current will take you.  that would be a 1 in 1 trillion bullseye for them to be caught up in the wreck having lost contact from 6k feet away

Edited June 19, 2023 by AUS-97HORN

[BabaYaga 15,288]

2 minutes ago, AUS-97HORN said:

so the story goes from 5 employees to definitely 1 billionaire tourist, maybe more, and some employees???? 

how the fuck is a billionaire "an employee" when hes clearly a fucking tourist

Again, reclassified as a "specialist" for insurance purposes after receiving some basic training.  

[G650 14,232]

Also, dude, tourist is not the preferred nomenclature. Mission Specialist, please

[Pescado_Rojo 19,413]

44 minutes ago, Blotto said:

 https://web.archive.org/web/20230613051805/https://oceangateexpeditions.com/tour/titanic-expedition/

privacy curtain, lulz.

"Perhaps the 3rd trip through the chili cheese fries buffet was a bit ambitious. Anyhoo, we got any more shitter paper on this bitch?"

Reminds me of this old story about shitting on a private plane.

Most embarrassing plane poop story ever

Quote

"I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry." My apologies do nothing to drown out the heinous noises that seem to carry on and reverberate throughout the small cabin indefinitely. If that's not bad enough, I have one more major problem. The privacy screen stops right around shoulder level. I am sitting there, a disembodied head, in the back of the plane, on a bucking bronco for a toilet, all while looking my colleagues, competitors, and clients directly in the eyes.

 

[GhostOfTomJoad 9,323]

24 minutes ago, Telegraph_it said:

The folks that just completed that hi-res 3D scan of the Titanic wreck. 

This. Spend hours descending into the crushing depths of the ocean just to try to get a peek via a tiny porthole? Fuck that noise. Put the 3D scan video on an 86" monitor and enjoy from your sofa while drinking a beer.

[Telegraph_it 3,357]

6 minutes ago, GhostOfTomJoad said:

This. Spend hours descending into the crushing depths of the ocean just to try to get a peek via a tiny porthole? Fuck that noise. Put the 3D scan video on an 86" monitor and enjoy from your sofa while drinking a beer.

Exactly. And now they have to redo the 3D scan! 

[Horn Dog 9,816]

Earlier this month, OceanGate said on Twitter that it was using satellite company Starlink to help maintain communications with its expedition to the Titanic.

"Despite being in the middle of the North Atlantic, we have the internet connection we need to make our Titanic dive operations a success — thank you Starlink," the tweet said. 

 

[ChiTownDoc 21,141]

15 minutes ago, GhostOfTomJoad said:

This. Spend hours descending into the crushing depths of the ocean just to try to get a peek via a tiny porthole? Fuck that noise. Put the 3D scan video on an 86" monitor and enjoy from your sofa while drinking a beer.

 

[G650 14,232]

1 minute ago, ChiTownDoc said:

 

We're fixin to find out

[Brisketexan 105,059]

Just now, Horn Dog said:

Earlier this month, OceanGate said on Twitter that it was using satellite company Starlink to help maintain communications with its expedition to the Titanic.

"Despite being in the middle of the North Atlantic, we have the internet connection we need to make our Titanic dive operations a success — thank you Starlink," the tweet said. 

 

Okay, here's the pitch: descend to a crushing depth in total darkness in a tiny can controlled by a video game joystick and connected to communications by Elon Musk.  If you have to shit, you do it in a bubble separated from the rest of us by a tiny curtain.  Oh, and pay me a cool quarter million for the privilege!

The most brilliant business model ever?  Obviously.

[Judge Roybeanbag 11,819]

1 hour ago, tx 3 putt said:

Lot of people in this world with too much money and too little sense 

Yeah this is like the world's most expensive carnival ride.  Complete with carny operators and shitty maintenance, apparently.

[Pato del Muerto 52,485]

13 minutes ago, Horn Dog said:

Earlier this month, OceanGate said on Twitter that it was using satellite company Starlink to help maintain communications with its expedition to the Titanic.

"Despite being in the middle of the North Atlantic, we have the internet connection we need to make our Titanic dive operations a success — thank you Starlink," the tweet said. 

 

[BabaYaga 15,288]

11 minutes ago, Judge Roybeanbag said:

Yeah this is like the world's most expensive carnival ride.  Complete with carny operators and shitty maintenance, apparently.