Missing Titanic Submarine Had Some Worrying Design Choices

"The submersible that vanished two days ago while carrying five people to the wreckage site of the Titanic has "about 40 hours of breathable air left," a U.S. Coast Guard spokesman said in a briefing Tuesday.

Coast Guard Capt. Jason Frederick said rescue teams have searched 7,600 square miles of the Atlantic Ocean since Sunday. "To date, those search efforts have not yielded any results,'' he said. More search ships were traveling to the area, but he said the effort was "an incredibly complex operation.''

Still, Frederick vowed the search would continue. "We know there's about 40 hours of breathable air left,'' he said.

The carbon-fiber submersible, named Titan, had a 96-hour oxygen supply when it went to sea at about 6 a.m. Sunday, according to David Concannon, an adviser to OceanGate Expeditions, the deep-sea exploration company that owns the vessel."

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[tonydagostino]

As I hear these details I'm astonished anyone would get into this death trap for a Bahamian reef cruise let alone a dive to 13000 feet. Five people with more money than sense

[mobinsone]

17 bolts. On the outside. You gotta be nuts to get in that thing.

[jesipohl]

forget the poor people who died trying to get to a better life, let's continue to focus on the rich people who died having fun

[rustyshackelford]

This is like agreeing to ride your idiot friend's homemade airplane over the grand canyon. No one whose thought process was of any value to society was lost.

[rustyshackelford]

The more I have found out about this story the less I feel bad for the people involved.

[AaaaNinja]

THE DOOR OPENS FROM THE OUTSIDE??? So even if they're floating on the surface .... WTF Does nobody see the irony of having a poorly-thought-out failsafe system?

[SuperVlerik]

Guessing "Oceangate" is pretty much sunk as a company now as well.

[MrHotMonkey]

"This is not your grandfathers sub" well in fact the US Navy Alvin sub built in 64 and first to explore Titanic still being used today with no problems.

[delorferral]

Rich people dying is newsworthy. Meanwhile, at least 3000 poor Americans die without so much as a mention.

[keplerf]

This is no longer a rescue mission, it is a recovery mission.
Deregulation protects profits, regulations protect people.

[robertfergusson]

Someone grabbed the controler and thought they were in Grand Theft Auto VIII: Oceanic Trenches, then proceeded to try and run over a kraken.

[noosphericaltarzan]

At least the ship builder can’t abandon the passengers this time,

[garyroseborough]

Of all the things you could have done with $250K, You decided to risk your life in an uncertified vessel. It's as if they wanted the same fate as the people aboard the Titanic.

[Nar]

This is very much a rich people problem.

[AiluropodaPanda]

17 bolts on the outside? They could be slowly suffocating to death on the surface because you can't open it from the inside? That is pretty horrific.

[marvinmartin]

As a person who is not born into the right family, I can’t find much empathy for spoiled rich kids spending wads of cash for something this stupid! And now our tax dollars are going to find them? But no money for the homeless, or those who have no healthcare!

[LeoBaker-irvo]

The obvious solution is to send 10 more billionaires to the bottom of the ocean.

[tonythomas]

I served in the Navy. It seems that this was a disaster waiting to happen, hoping for a miracle recovery to happen.

[NamaGenesis]

Getting the whole titanic joining the victims experience unfortunately

[chaosembodiment]

Rest in peace rich people who made poor decisions. But you should have just watched the movie