Titanic tourist submersible goes missing with search under way

[Pigeon]

Plot twist, specialists threw the controller around and it broke. Someone forget to load the extras. Would have been nice to have added a couple more boxes of CO2 scrubbers also.

[Pigeon]

The U.S. Coast Guard announced the following on Twitter this morning: “A debris field was discovered within the search area by an ROV near the Titanic. Experts within the unified command are evaluating the information.”

A release put out by the Coast Guard indicated that the ROV in question originated from the Horizon Arctic, a 307-foot anchor-handling vessel registered in Canada that has a hangar for ROVs with a launch and recovery system. It reportedly just arrived on scene today.

The Coast Guard's post on Twitter gave no details, such as whether officials believe the debris is connected to the Titan

Will there be pics and samples brought up?

Look for a game controller. It is said to be tough enough the survive teenagers.

[Pigeon]

I offered Rush a case discount on Flex Seal. Don't be Rush.

[Pigeon]

Landing frame and rear cover of Titan believed found. That would point to an implosion during decent.

With aircraft, it's no how many hours it has flown as much as how many take offs and landings (pressure changes) it has.

[Pigeon]

But much faster and near complete destruction.

I saw an estimate of 0.29 milliseconds.

[Pigeon]

There was not time to tell the head guy that.

[Royal]

Plot twist, specialists threw the controller around and it broke. Someone forget to load the extras. Would have been nice to have added a couple more boxes of CO2 scrubbers also.

I was thinking something like they forgot to change the batteries in the extra controllers.

[Royal]

But much faster and near complete destruction.

I saw an estimate of 0.29 milliseconds.

Great demonstration on pressure and design.

[Pigeon]

The Coast Guard announced Thursday that they believed the five passengers who disappeared while attempting to explore the Titanic shipwreck were likely lost due to a “catastrophic implosion” of their vessel.

U.S. Coast Guard Rear Adm. John Mauger announced at a press conference that five major pieces of debris had been found 1,600 feet from the site of the Titanic Thursday morning on the sea floor, a finding “consistent with the catastrophic loss of the pressure chamber.” Mauger said they then notified the families and offered their condolences.

Shortly before Mauger’s comments, the company running the expedition, OceanGate, announced that the five passengers “have sadly been lost.”

Not unexpected. RIP.

[Pigeon]

Previous dive.

In a tweet Monday, Pogue said the craft was in fact lost for five hours and that adding an emergency locator beacon was discussed. Pogue added, “They could still send short texts to the sub, but did not know where it was. It was quiet and very tense, and they shut off the ship’s internet to prevent us from tweeting.” The company cited the need to keep “all channels open” as a reason for cutting off internet access, he said.

Scratch the emergency locator beacon idea.

The one protocol:

Always stop outgoing communication to the world so others won't know of our lack of protocols and procedures.