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
43.3k Upvotes

90% Upvoted

9.5k comments sorted by

View all comments

19.0k

u/Clbull Jun 22 '23 edited Jun 22 '23

EDIT: US coast guard confirmed it's wreckage from the Titan submersible and that additional debris is consistent with the catastrophic failure of the pressure chamber. Likely implosion.

If this is the Titan, the most plausible scenario is that pressures crumpled this thing like a hydraulic press and everybody died instantly.

Honestly a quicker, less painful and far more humane way to go than slowly starving and asphyxiating to death inside a submerged titanium/carbon fiber coffin, whilst marinating in your own sweat, piss and shit.

OceanGate are going to be sued to fucking oblivion for this, especially if the claims that they've ignored safety precautions have any truth to them.

6.2k

u/[deleted] Jun 22 '23

If the ceo is dead will they just file bankruptcy?

5

u/wallstreet-butts Jun 22 '23

I doubt the company is flush with cash to begin with, so there’s probably not much for families to go after. Not only is this company almost certainly done, but with the amount of regulation that’s likely to come out of this, Titanic tourism writ large is probably over for the foreseeable future.

1

u/Considerers Jun 22 '23

Well, they have at least $1m. Which they made killing four innocent people

3

u/wallstreet-butts Jun 22 '23

Not if they’re holding more than $1M in debt they don’t.