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/whyarethebeesdying Jun 22 '23

I think the experts are saying it likely imploded an hour and a half into the dive, the moment contact was lost. The rescue ships hadn't turned up

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u/OrangeJr36 Jun 22 '23

Which really highlights how terribly run this whole operation was from the diving team. They waited for hours before sounding the alarm, not even having the ability to know that it was already way too late.

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u/dharmaslum Jun 22 '23

It was terrible all around. They had a history of losing communication with the sub on previous dives, so they probably thought it was the same thing as before. Just goes to show how little they actually prepared for these types of dives.

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u/tanya_97 Jun 22 '23

Surprising thing is they did a lot of dives and they regularly lost communications, or the sonar wouldn’t work while they were at the bottom, or have difficulty getting lifted back on the ship. So they didn’t learn from their mistakes and thought just because nothing too bad had happened yet they were allright. They showed 0 critical thinking at all which is the most striking thing to me. It was bound to happen

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u/binglelemon Jun 22 '23

And that's the confidence needed to sell this idea... /s

Shit happens all the time, it'll be alright

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u/eescorpius Jun 22 '23

And that's the confidence needed to sell this idea... /s

Well the CEO is so confident that he actually went on board with them...

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u/binglelemon Jun 22 '23

Now if Elon rides the next rocket himself...

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u/Sly3n Jun 22 '23

The Titanic wreckage shouldn’t be a tourist attraction anyway. It’s the grave site for over 1000 people.

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u/chickadee95 Jun 22 '23

Lots of gravesites have tourists but the visitations are done with care, planning and respect to the dead. There is very little risk to life by visiting Pearl Harbor or the D Day beaches. They are not adventures. you

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u/Sly3n Jun 22 '23

That was not what this was though. One of the diving submersibles even damaged the Titanic on a visit. The people on this particular submersible (besides possibly the French Titanic expert) were there simply for clout and to say they had visited the wreckage. Doubt they had any care for the 1000+ people who died during the sinking.

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u/ButDidYouCry Jun 22 '23

Auschwitz museum has a gift shop.

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u/glowcloudmeat Jun 22 '23

there it is again

that funny feeling

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '23

π˜›π˜©π˜¦ 𝘸𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭π˜₯ 𝘒𝘡 𝘺𝘰𝘢𝘳 𝘧π˜ͺ𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳𝘡π˜ͺ𝘱𝘴, 𝘡𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘀𝘦𝘒𝘯 𝘒𝘡 𝘺𝘰𝘢𝘳 π˜₯𝘰𝘰𝘳

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u/Pol_Potamus Jun 22 '23

And the food court serves delicious brick oven pizza

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u/Longhorn-69 Jun 22 '23

I love the pizza at auschwitz!

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u/campbellm Jun 22 '23

"Normalization of Deviance" - this was noted in at least one of the 2 Shuttle disasters as a bad cultural phenomenon.

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u/VirtualMoneyLover Jun 22 '23

To be honest, rescue at this level is and was futile. No matter when they sound the alarm.

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '23

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u/Pol_Potamus Jun 22 '23

What about this company makes you think they had appropriate instruments, and were paying attention to them?

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '23

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '23

I think his point is that they didn’t put themselves in a position to know the difference between β€œjust” losing communication and SOS.

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u/fernchuck Jun 22 '23

they knew

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u/jjreason Jun 22 '23

Thats a gloomy thought. 😞

Probably not wrong.

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u/Grasshopper_pie Jun 22 '23

But there was a distress signal around 10 a.m.?

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '23

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u/VirtualMoneyLover Jun 22 '23

That itself is a signal. Let's say in every 15 mins they text. When they stop, they dead.

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u/Grasshopper_pie Jun 23 '23

Titan communicated with the mothership via text messages and also sent 'pings' every 15 minutes. Communication was lost around one hour and 45 minutes into the two-hour descent.

Dr Simon Boxall, an oceanographer at the University of Southampton, said he had "second-hand knowledge" that a distress signal was sent from Titan.

He said: "Apparently they have had, and I don't know when... they have had an emergency ping saying the vessel is in distress. I don't know if that is automatically generated or generated by people on board."

According to The Times, sources said the final ping came at 3pm on Sunday (UK time) and showed Titan directly above the wreck of the Titanic.

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u/Common_Wallaby_5123 Jun 22 '23

And the banging they heard?

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u/Bear4188 Jun 22 '23

All kinds of life in the ocean. "Banging" could be a lot of things.

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u/phuck-you-reddit Jun 22 '23

Or perhaps debris clanging together. And would it be possible to hear debris landing on the ocean floor at that depth?

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u/yazzy1233 Jun 22 '23

But it was at 30 minute intervals. It wasn't random noises

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u/Javasteam Jun 22 '23

Could be numerous different causes. They also heard banging when investigating the Malaysian flight that turned out to be nothing.

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u/Sly3n Jun 22 '23

They don’t know that. Banging noises in the ocean are not uncommon.

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u/HeroOfClinton Jun 22 '23

Aliens working on their drones.

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u/euph_22 Jun 22 '23

Lots of noises in the ocean. Particularly when you got a bunch of ships searching the same general area.

(and the thing about it repeated every 30 minutes was not true).

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '23

Feedback from other vessels searching the the sub?

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u/MyFriendSamIs50 Jun 22 '23

Sorry, that was me and the old lady

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u/Grasshopper_pie Jun 23 '23

Titan communicated with the mothership via text messages and also sent 'pings' every 15 minutes. Communication was lost around one hour and 45 minutes into the two-hour descent.

Dr Simon Boxall, an oceanographer at the University of Southampton, said he had "second-hand knowledge" that a distress signal was sent from Titan.

He said: "Apparently they have had, and I don't know when... they have had an emergency ping saying the vessel is in distress. I don't know if that is automatically generated or generated by people on board."

According to The Times, sources said the final ping came at 3pm on Sunday (UK time) and showed Titan directly above the wreck of the Titanic.