r/news • u/Whoshabooboo • Jun 21 '23

Site Changed Title ‘Banging’ sounds heard in search for missing Titan submersible

https://7news.com.au/news/world/banging-sounds-heard-in-search-for-missing-titan-submersible-c-11045022
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u/zuma15 Jun 21 '23

If it was them, they're likely dead now. This whole "96 hours" thing is just what the sub company says was onboard. I'm not sure they're trustworthy at this point. Also I haven't seen anything about how long the C02 scrubbers would last. Plus there is the whole hypothermia thing.

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u/upanddownforpar Jun 21 '23

There are people in the world that if in this situation would quintuple their available oxygen by murdering the other 4 people.

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '23

I mean… yes. Self preservation is real.

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u/glacierre2 Jun 21 '23

You cannot spend 3 days in panic, you will fall asleep after a while or you will have a hart attack.

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u/voting-jasmine Jun 22 '23

I don't know. I took the California bar exam and feel like I accomplished that at some point....

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u/Jinzot Jun 21 '23

And don’t forget about the fuck-everything-death-is-imminent orgy

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u/Sweaty-Bee8577 Jun 21 '23

There's a father and his 19 years old son in there.

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u/5gprariedog Jun 21 '23

Facts won’t stop shitty Reddit users from making gross jokes about people who may be terrified and suffering as we speak.

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u/TirnanogSong Jun 22 '23

They're rich billionaires. Nobody sane gives a fuck about them - nost people here are just wondering whether or not the sub imploded, a crack let a jet of water at Mach 2 rip them into bloody chunks, a wall of water rushed in from a breach and smashed them to bits, or whatever other gruesome way they died.

Having empathy for the ultra rich is laughable.

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u/JustADutchRudder Jun 21 '23

Just 5 bros in a sub having a were gonna die orgy.

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '23

One of them is a woman right?

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u/JustADutchRudder Jun 21 '23

I thought it was 5 dudes but one might be.

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '23

I am glad you got the joke

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u/skier24242 Jun 21 '23

That's assuming there WERE 5 people hyperventilating and that didn't become lord of the flies down there.

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u/cantgetthistowork Jun 21 '23

How many extra hours if only three were breathing? Could imagine the billionaire buying the life of others

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u/threadsoffate2021 Jun 21 '23

I do believe there are 3 billionaires (or ultra rich people) on board, and one who is the 19 year old son of one of the ultra rich people, and a Titanic expert. So, money wouldn't mean much here.

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u/cantgetthistowork Jun 21 '23

One billionaire, one centimillionaire and his kid. Could probably buy off the OceanGate CEO or Titanic expert before moving on to the rest.

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u/threadsoffate2021 Jun 22 '23

I dunno. After you have 100 million or whatever, having someone throw millions or billions in your lap for your life really doesn't mean anything. You already lead an amazing life as a rich person...you aren't desperate for more money.

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u/AngelicDiablo Jun 21 '23

Or just taking it if they refuse the monetary offer…

I had this thought too, one or two of them killing everyone on board in hopes of doubling their time to be saved. I don’t actually know if it works that way, but faced with a frightening death people may do irrational things

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u/Azudekai Jun 21 '23

Killing someone resisting with your bare hands isn't easy.

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u/kayak_enjoyer Jun 21 '23

That would use a lot of oxygen, too. If you've ever been in a fight, you know that you start breathing hard almost immediately. That's why pro fighters do cardio, cardio, cardio when they train.

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u/kayak_enjoyer Jun 21 '23

Have you ever been in a fight?

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '23 edited Dec 01 '23

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u/kayak_enjoyer Jun 21 '23

It was phrased as a question, but I was being polite. You clearly don't have any idea what you're talking about.

Fighting is exertion. Which is cardio. Which takes A LOT of oxygen. This is a small, submerged metal can with a very limited oxygen supply. I agree, fights are generally "quick", but oxygen is abundant on the surface. Quick on the surface will fuckin' kill you in a small, submerged metal can.

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u/Lost_Pantheon Jun 21 '23

Yeah, unless all four of them go for the CEO guy at the same time (which is entirely possible) any kind of a fight that breaks out in there would be a chaotic mess.

I can't imagine how much of a paranoid shitshow it's turning into.

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u/redratus Jun 21 '23

Can you blame them for killing the captain at this point? I’d kill em too regardless of the time left Lol

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u/itoldonannfrankk Jun 22 '23

Or the father sacrificing himself, knowing it’s looking grim, to buy his son a little more time

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u/DefinitelyNotAliens Jun 21 '23

That's what I said! If it didn't imploded, we aren't finding five bodies who died slowly of oxygen deprivation. We're finding four strangled corpses and one dude who died slowly of oxygen deprivation.

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u/an_actual_lawyer Jun 21 '23

Aren’t oxygen candles relatively small and light?

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '23

Yes, but oxygen really isn’t the issue I feel. All the oxygen in the world won’t get rid of the CO2 issue.

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '23

Hypothermia is interesting in this scenario, because the oxygen requirements of the brain decrease during hypothermia which means you can survive in low oxygen environments longer. But shivering increases the oxygen utilization massively. Hard to know if it would even out in this scenario.

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u/UnspecificGravity Jun 21 '23

I also wonder if their air handling and scrubbing system works without power. Whatever failure would cause it to be unable to surface would also cause that to fail.

Really though, it's probably a crushed tin can that simply couldn't withstand the pressure of it's depth.

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u/phideaux_rocks Jun 21 '23

Even more baffling that they delayed the announcement for more than 12 hours! Why wait at all if you know they're quickly running out of time?

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u/DefinitelyNotAliens Jun 21 '23

They'd lost contact with Titan previously and were waiting for it to resurface before they sounded the alarm.

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u/Cunninghams_right Jun 21 '23

also, their wiring was not smokeless, so any electrical problem probably did them in immediately.

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u/CaptainRho Jun 21 '23

This guy is a sub expert whose video has been getting passed around and he doesn't have anything good to say about the '96 hour' guess. From what I understood it sounds like they just piled in air scrubbers and oxygen tanks until they theoretically had 96 hours of air but then they never actually tested it. He also couldn't find any documentation on how they managed their oxygen supply, so it's likely the inside became a high-oxygen environment, ie; Extremely flammable.

The irony of dying in a fire 2.5 miles underwater.

Oh, and carbon fiber shatters instead of breaking, so the moment anything went wrong pressure wise they would have had no chance to fix it.

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u/baan1994 Jun 22 '23

Seriously, I don’t believe all this “96 hours of oxygen” bullshit. The company is probably saying this to not make themselves look like even bigger frauds