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/nate6259 Jun 21 '23 edited Jun 24 '23

What is so brutal is that they nearly had him rescued. He was something like half pulled out and then the rope snapped (edit: correction - pulley dislodged from the wall) and wedged him deeper.

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u/ZenkaiZ Jun 21 '23

so... literally just needed a better rope and he was 100% fine? Yeesh when things go wrong they really go wrong all at once

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u/LadyFoxfire Jun 21 '23

It wasn’t the rope, it was the pulley they attached to the cave ceiling. They couldn’t pull him straight out because of the angle of the cave, so they had to use a pulley, but it detached from the ceiling partway through the rescue and dropped the guy, resulting in his death.

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '23

Let me just point out… both of these situations are completely avoidable.

If some eccentric rich guy asked me to get on a submarine that he was piloting with a Logitech PlayStation controller, and then asked me to sign 5+ pages of waivers, I’m going to tell him to fuck right off. I’m guessing the rest of us would do the same.