Titanic firm submersible missing.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by MaDef

Moot point, as the founder and CEO of Oceangate was the pilot.

That is precisely what I am pondering over.

[Jeff-Groves]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

Who will be held accountable?

In todays World? If anyone so much as touched that Death Trap to launch it?
They are gonna get raked over the coals, face probable charges as assisting to involuntary Man Slaughter, and maybe even a Hate Crime since a couple people were Pakistani.
God Forbid any of them were LGBTQ+! That would REALLY light a fuse!

[Eichhörnchen]

Tell it like it is, Jeff

Moira and I were in a quiet safe little thrift shop in town this morning and something made me think about those poor souls. I said to her that they were minted - among the richest people in the world - and they spent their money on a ticket to the grave. They'd have given it all away to be standing there with us today

[Jeff-Groves]

It ain't even got started yet! Navy said they detected a possible Implosion event the day contact was lost?
How many that sent help will Sue for costs? Kinda stupid to send help if they had known that information.
I see it as a Giant Turd dropped into a Fan! All kinds of walls gonna get painted with the spray!

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Jeff-Groves

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How many that sent help will Sue for costs? Kinda stupid to send help if they had known that information.

Rescue efforts for the missing Titanic sub will probably cost millions, but it's unlikely OceanGate and its wealthy customers will be expected to foot the bill. A former Coast Guard commandant says that the massive search-and-rescue operation for the missing Titanic submersible will likely end up costing millions but that it would be unusual for the company running the vessel to have to pay the US back.

The US and Canadian authorities deployed at least one submarine, several aircraft, and sonar buoys to search for the submersible, which disappeared on Sunday while on the way to the Titanic shipwreck.

On Thursday, the operation was called off after debris from the sub was found and the five-person crew was presumed dead by the US Coast Guard.

During the search, special equipment, including the US Navy's Flyaway Deep Ocean Salvage System, or FADOSS, and a French deep-diving robot, were dispatched to find and possibly retrieve the submersible.

Chris Boyer, the executive director of the National Association for Search and Rescue, told The New York Times that the mission would "probably cost millions." Ret. Adm. Paul Zukunft, who previously led the Coast Guard, told The Washington Post that OceanGate Expeditions, the company that runs tours with the submersible, wouldn't be expected to reimburse the US government.

"It's no different than if a private citizen goes out and his boat sinks. We go out and recover him. We don't stick them with the bill after the fact," Zukunft told the outlet.

OceanGate charges people $250,000 each to see the Titanic, which rests some 13,000 feet underwater. The five people who died in the doomed vessel included the company's CEO and at least two billionaires.

The submersible, called Titan, was made of carbon fiber and started running annual tours in 2021. It went missing and imploded on its third expedition.

Mike Reiss, a former passenger who went on four trips with OceanGate, said that dives on the Titan were sometimes canceled due to dangerous weather conditions and that the vessel regularly lost communication with its mother ship. In 2018, the Titan's designers were confronted with safety concerns from a now-fired company executive and the Marine Technology Society — though it's unclear whether those issues were later addressed by OceanGate.

It's also unclear whether OceanGate requires its customers to obtain insurance before their trips, but the passengers were likely aware of the risks of embarking on a dive in the submersible.

David Pogue, a CBS correspondent who tried the submersible last year, said he had to sign a waiver before participating in the dive that acknowledged the Titan was an "experimental vessel" that wasn't "approved or certified by any regulatory body, and could result in physical injury, emotional trauma, or death."

Reiss, a writer and producer for "The Simpsons," told CNN that he knew he might die when he visited the Titanic wreck with OceanGate last year.

"This wasn't a vacation. It wasn't tourism. It was exploration. And you're getting on a ship that's the best it could be, but they're learning as they go along," Reiss said. The five people in the submersible knew the risks that came with the trip, Reiss added.

"They made it as safe as they could make it. They trusted their own lives to it," Reiss said. "But they knew it could end this way."

The navy knew about ther Seismic event recording but it takes time thru channels to release that secret information.

[Jeff-Groves]

All I can say is Ya got to anyone that would pay that much money to climb into what is basically a garbage can and decend into the depths.

Last words were probably...............

"OH SH.."

[Platapus]

Unfortunately, the Titan sank in Lawyer infested waters.

[em2nought]

Originally Posted by Platapus

Unfortunately, the Titan sank in Lawyer infested waters.

Just wait until they see the photo of the monitor mount attached by screwing directly into the pressure hull.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by em2nought

Just wait until they see the photo of the monitor mount attached by screwing directly into the pressure hull.

Not seen that, do you have a link?

[Exocet25fr]

https://www.reddit.com/r/WhitePeople...it_ends_badly/

[Jimbuna]

Merci

[Onkel Neal]

Originally Posted by em2nought

Just wait until they see the photo of the monitor mount attached by screwing directly into the pressure hull.

No kidding, I saw that image. That's crazy!

[Exocet25fr]

Inplosion effects.....

[Onkel Neal]

Everything is always compared to the surface of the sun, or the size of Texas...

[mapuc]

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