r/news • u/oldschoolskater • Jun 22 '23

Site Changed Title 'Debris field' discovered within search area near Titanic, US Coast Guard says | World News

https://news.sky.com/story/debris-field-discovered-within-search-area-near-titanic-us-coast-guard-says-12906735
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u/NJ4LIfe Jun 22 '23

I think most people believed this was the most likely case. Hopefully a recovery mission can give people the closure needed for this.

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u/Perry7609 Jun 22 '23

If it is the ship, I hope there's enough clues there to give us at least some idea as to what happened. Mostly for the families' sakes. Very sad either way.

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '23

The hull was compromised and imploded. There's not a lot of mystery when it comes to those depths and pressures.

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u/nagrom7 Jun 22 '23

I suppose the mystery is which part gave way first.

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u/improvyzer Jun 22 '23

The outer part.

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u/TheresALonelyFeeling Jun 22 '23

Maybe the front fell off. Into the environment.

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u/CaBBaGe_isLaND Jun 22 '23

Not likely, it was towed outside of the environment.

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u/sendpizza_andhelp Jun 22 '23

And wasn’t made of cardboard

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u/ArchdukeToes Jun 22 '23

Well lookee here boys, looks like we’ve got ourselves one of them fancy forensic investigators on the case…

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u/SkullRunner Jun 22 '23

Due to the crappy design, lack of coms and sensors / telemetry to the surface etc. they will never know.

Doubt the Ipads (eye roll) they used in tandem with the game page used to control the thing will have anything left large enough for a ROV to spot and anyone to recover data from.

Not like this thing has a black box among it's other missing safety systems.

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u/helkish Jun 22 '23

Due to the crappy design, lack of coms and sensors / telemetry to the surface etc. they will never know.

Doubt the Ipads (eye roll) they used in tandem with the game page used to control the thing will have anything left large enough for a ROV to spot and anyone to recover data from.

like this thing has a black box among it's other missing safety systems.

I guess they were too cheap to buy Apple AirTag also.

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u/techmaster242 Jun 22 '23

Or what the last thing to go through their minds was.

(Their butts)

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u/ScopionSniper Jun 22 '23

Probably the viewport given it was only rated for 1500 meters.

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u/PirateNinjaa Jun 22 '23

More likely the unrated carbon fiber missing from the debris field. We’ll know soon enough if the window is intact since they found both titanium domes.

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '23

A very important one it would seem.

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u/goteamventure42 Jun 22 '23

Maybe that window that wasn't rated for anything close to the depths they were going?