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?

[MichaelW2]

Probably the same reason people go to visit the Pyramids, various war graves, famous graveyards like Highgate Cemetary, the tomb of the unkown soldier etc...
Also I think theres quite a lot of nostalgia and mystique about the Titanic.
I've just read that the young lad who died didnt want to go and was terrified but felt he had to go because his Dad. Thats really sad.

All of the others made their choice freely to spend their money on a dangerous thrill ride. This young guy is the real tragedy,

 

[Bonefish Blues]

I'm sore from sitting on this fence, but: they will have gained knowledge of how not to get people down to such depths.

Edited for accuracy

 

[Beebo]

I predict foul play. Billionaires with WEF links. Suspicious.

Does everything have to be a conspiracy theory?

 

[Bonefish Blues]

Does everything have to be a conspiracy theory?

Yes, seemingly. But not everything is a conspiracy.

 

[T4tomo]

It’s already known and humans have been to the bottom of the Mariana Trench at 10,928m below sea level. Way below the level the Titanic rests at.

not to mention the countless trips to the titantic that were made years ago in the bigger more robust US navy submersible Alvin amongst others. apparently James Cameron reckons he's been down there 33 times!

 

[Dogtrousers]

I predict foul play. Billionaires with WEF links. Suspicious.

Ah the notorious White Elephant Factory. aka Oceangate.

 

[Kingfisher101]

Foul play? more like a severe health and safety failure really.
If anyone is not happy doing something dangerous like this then they shouldjust refuse to do it.This reminds me of those two teenage girls that drowned a few years ago in the river Ribble. They were forced to go walking over streams in speight and they got washed away and drowned. Neither wanted to do it and one of the girls Mums even went upto school to say about her daughters reservations.

 

[Kingfisher101]

not to mention the countless trips to the titantic that were made years ago in the bigger more robust US navy submersible Alvin amongst others. apparently James Cameron reckons he's been down there 33 times!

Yes of course he has....

 

[Mike_P]

The really worrying thing is that all this talk on the appropriate shape for a deep ocean vessel means Thunderbird 4 would never have actually worked

 

[newfhouse]

I'm sore from sitting on this fence, but: they will have gained knowledge of how to get people down to such depths.

It's getting them back up that needs more work.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

This one has been to the deepest places in the Worlds Oceans

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSV_Limiting_Factor

 

[rockyroller]

when is the movie coming out?

 

[PK99]

Came across this elsewhere:

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This may have not helped: "Stockton Rush, CEO of the OceanGate company responsible for the Titanic exploration (tourist trip?) submarine currently lost at sea, seems to have prioritized diversity over experience when putting together his company. “When I started business… other sub operators [were] out there but they typically [had] gentlemen who are ex-military submariners… a whole bunch of 50-year-old white guys,” he said during a 2020 intervuew.

“I wanted our team to be younger, to be inspirational… [A] 25-year-old who’s a sub pilot or a platform operator or one of our techs can be inspirational,” he said while an image of a female crew member showed on screen, adding: “We also want our team to have a variety of different backgrounds.”"

>>>>>>

As an ex Safety Professional I do have to say:
Oh dear! Diversity for Diversity's sake is one of my hobby horses. Select your pool on the basis of skills and experience, then within that apply diversity criteria. In safety critical functions that is beyond essential.

 

[grldtnr]

I think it's obscene that this was essentially a 'tourist' trip, to me it's like any of the wartime wrecks , where vessels or aircraft, even buildings become Graves,due to enemy or peacetime incidents.
It's a burial site and ought to be left in peace out of respect for the dead.
There is perhaps some legitimacy in research purposes, but to go down there just to gongoolzle is wrong.

 

[matticus]

It’s already known and humans have been to the bottom of the Mariana Trench at 10,928m below sea level. Way below the level the Titanic rests at.

That's like saying
"We;ve already been to the moon - no need to improve on any aeronautical engineering."