This tiny submarine 2.4 miles under the sea, visiting the relics of RMS Titanic. Can it be found and the crew saved before the air runs out?

[Mad Doug Biker]

Comms were lost whilst they would have been on the way down, but that had happened before, so who knows? If the ROV has seen the debris underwater though, as reported, then the only place they'd have been looking is around the wreck because it's the only place to look, absent any other clues and it seems the banging reports were erroneous)

I didn't particularly mean it happened at a 'high' altitude, I just meant that I wonder if they were close but never got to see it, or never got to do anything before it happened.
Maybe the mission had been 'successful' and it then happened as they were leaving? Who knows.

Anyway, it's speculation as always.

 

[Dogtrousers]

If there's a political scandal about the company who cobbled that thing together, will it be called Oceangategate?

 

[Accy cyclist]

I am curious as well, to be fair.

Probably similar to when you accidentally stand on an insect. It made me kind of laugh but not, when I heard a retired US Navy officer on the radio/TV last night say "Anyone subjected to that amount of oceon pressure will either be crushed immediately or if not drown". As far as I know drowning takes about a minute, which you don't get when that oceon drops on you!

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Confirmation of hull loss and the fatality of the 5 onboard.

 

[Drago]

It's official - " the debris is consistent with the catastrophic loss of the pressure chamber."

 

[Bonefish Blues]

...and up in the water column, not at Titanic level

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

...and up in the water column, not at Titanic level

What does that actually mean? Sorry

 

[Bonefish Blues]

Wreckage found 1600

What does that actually mean? Sorry

On the way down - from the spread of the debris

 

[Bonefish Blues]

Coverage on BBC News channel and online with the Admiral who was leading the search effort

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

On the way down - from the spread of the debris

Sorry, little mistake there, I went to write that wreckage was found 1600ft from the bow in an area with no Titanic wreckage.

Edited, thanks.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

Sorry, little mistake there, I went to write that wreckage was found 1600m from the bow in an area with no Titanic wreckage.

1600ft

 

[Ming the Merciless]

“The site of the fatal accident is believed to be 1600ft (487m) off the bow of the Titanic wreck.

It's in an area where there is not any debris of the Titanic.”

 

[Drago]

Blimey, I know it's been expected but its still pretty sobering stuff.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

“
Officials said five major pieces were detected amid the debris around the Titanic site.

Among them, a nose cone, outside the pressure hull, and a larger debris field.”

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

1600ft

Yes, that is why I made the mistake, I suddenly could not remember if it was feet or meters ☺️

Thanks.