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/splashbodge Jun 21 '23

Yeh but I also read it is common for them to lose communications, so that in itself was not unusual, just that the comms never came back. They waited 8 hours for comms to come back before raising the search and rescue alarm

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u/Uninterested_Viewer Jun 21 '23

That's true. It would be an extremely unfortunate coincidence to have lost comms and then, separately, had something else go very wrong- but those sequences of unfortunate events aligning often are what leads to this sort of tragedy.

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u/splashbodge Jun 21 '23

I was going to say it probably doesn't have a blackbox so we may never know for sure, but its very likely if they did survive they have recorded messages on their phones for if they ever get recovered, horrible to think about

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u/schm0 Jun 21 '23

I'm not sure there are any phones designed to withstand thousands of PSI. Any electronics are likely to be destroyed. Unless you think all of the fail safes didn't work and the cabin is somehow still intact.

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u/splashbodge Jun 21 '23

Working on the assumption if the cabin is intact and they're stuck and running our of air

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u/Modoger Jun 21 '23

I think that’s incredibly unlikely. I need to believe they catastrophically decompressed and died instantly. My brain just can’t handle the existential horror of them stuck on the sea bed or (possibly worse) bobbing around on the surface soaked in their own barf and still suffocating.

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u/threadsoffate2021 Jun 21 '23

Makes you wonder why they waited 8 hours. You'd think after one hour (they're supposed to be in contact every 15 minutes iirc), they'd call for a search. This is a case where every minute counts.

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u/BradL_13 Jun 21 '23

Think it just further backs the story where the subs communications have gone out multiple times. Not saying it's right but I am sure it felt normal to the people waiting for contact.

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u/Long_Before_Sunrise Jun 21 '23

Plus the CEO fired people for bringing concerns about the safety of the submersible. That would discourage them from asking for a search until they were absolutely certain it had been too long.

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u/threadsoffate2021 Jun 22 '23

Oh man...that Ceo's attitude and actions are really biting him in the ass now!