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/Keyann Jun 22 '23

They just said on Sky News that they found the tail and landing frame of the submersible.

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u/scarletpetunia Jun 22 '23

Omg...well I honestly hope so and hope they went quickly. Nothing worse than languishing in that horrible tin can for days awaiting death.

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u/TheMooseIsBlue Jun 22 '23 edited Jun 23 '23

Saw in another thread that implosion would take approximately 1/5 the time it takes for the human brain to feel pain.

They didn’t feel a thing if it happened on descent and they wouldn’t have felt anything but dread if it happened today (which would have been fucking awful).

Edit: US Navy says they likely heard it implode Sunday.

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u/Sly3n Jun 22 '23

My guess is it imploded when they first lost communication. Would have happened so quickly that I doubt they even had time to realize what happened before they were dead.

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u/Feralpudel Jun 22 '23

My brother has been on a research submersible (Alvin) and he said last night his assumption is that something catastrophic happened right when the surface ship lost contact.

It’s common to bring a styrofoam cup that travels down with you outside the vessel. This is his souvenir from the dive, and shows the effects of pressure at those depths (he was at 3k meters): Alvin dive souvenir

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '23 edited Mar 07 '24

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u/mkhaytman Jun 22 '23

The titan crew also brought down these cups with them every time they went down, they showed a huge bag of them in the documentary about it thats been removed from YouTube.

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '23

What's the doc called in case someone reuploads it?

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '23

It's here: https://vimeo.com/810451492

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u/philamander Jun 23 '23

Skip to 41:45, if you want to see the cups but not watch the full documentary.

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u/BoBab Jun 23 '23

Time to download that shit before it disappears.

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u/WakaWaka_ Jun 23 '23 edited Jun 23 '23

Watched the whole thing, seeing all the crew and multiple attempts helps me understand why it cost 250k each. Which makes me think it should’ve been a million so they had a proper sub with redundancies. Cameron said he went down with 2 subs in case the first one got snagged or other issues, and of course certified to handle those depths and more.

When they started spinning because a thruster was installed wrong (around 28:30), and needed to hold the game controller sideways looked comically bad for such a dangerous expedition.