titanic gawker submersible still missing.
June 21, 2023 at 10:15 pm
(This post was last modified: June 21, 2023 at 10:16 pm by Anomalocaris.)
Communication with a deep sea submersible carrying 5 people who paid $250,000 each to gawk at the scene of the famous maritime disaster has been lost since sunday. The submersible’s whereabout is unknown.
A rather impressive array of search and rescue assets, including naval anti submarine warfare assets, have been searching without results since. It seems to me the array of assets involved is rather larger than one normally see searching for 5 lost mariners.
it must be because the lives of those who can pay big bucks for delayed disaster tourism must ne worth more.
In reality unless the submersible is able to surface on its own, the chance of rescue would seem to be effectively zero because it would be extremely difficult to locate such a small submersible at this depth amidst the clutter of Titanic’s debris field. And even if the submersible is located, some other submersible must be on hand to be able to dive to it with a hoist cable in tow, connect the hoisting cable to it to pull it up, because there is no rescue submersible than can reach 1/3 as deep, and in any case there is no possible way of transfers the survivors to a rescuer submersible at this depth.
A rather impressive array of search and rescue assets, including naval anti submarine warfare assets, have been searching without results since. It seems to me the array of assets involved is rather larger than one normally see searching for 5 lost mariners.
it must be because the lives of those who can pay big bucks for delayed disaster tourism must ne worth more.
In reality unless the submersible is able to surface on its own, the chance of rescue would seem to be effectively zero because it would be extremely difficult to locate such a small submersible at this depth amidst the clutter of Titanic’s debris field. And even if the submersible is located, some other submersible must be on hand to be able to dive to it with a hoist cable in tow, connect the hoisting cable to it to pull it up, because there is no rescue submersible than can reach 1/3 as deep, and in any case there is no possible way of transfers the survivors to a rescuer submersible at this depth.
