A closer look at the 5 men aboard the Titanic submersible

The search for the Titanic tourist submersible came to a heartbreaking end Thursday when officials announced all five men aboard were presumed dead after debris near the site of the shipwreck was discovered. Ian Cull reports.

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[JTguitarlessons]

It's extremely bizarre that this story is receiving so much media coverage. This is the type of thing that typically gets 1 mention and that's it. It's a tragedy, but the media is using it as a distraction

[justinl]

Next Up: A closer look at the thousands of poor people that starve to death every year.

[Mehki]

Next time rich, entitled dumbasses do something dangerous, they should be required to put up a $10M or more bond each to cover the cost of trying to rescue them. I always feel way more for the people risking their lives to do so... Feel bad for the kid though.

[BenzosHelp]

At least this was instantaneous. The suffering was unimaginable to think if they were trapped in the dark waiting for days to run out of oxygen. I heard Suleman was terrified to go but went for father's day gift. Breaks my heart.

[kimclarke]

They aren’t “presumed dead”, they are dead and nothing is left of their bodies.

[QuietRiot]

Ironic that our tax dollars are used to save millionaires when millionaires find loopholes not to pay taxes.

[lelemurray]

I think everyone needs to leave the titanic alone. Leave the dead alone. Leave everything in that ship alone. Now they got to make a movie about this. As if the titanic movie didn’t traumatize me enough.

[katiestans]

The wife of the CEO that died is the great great granddaughter of the older couple, the Strauss’s, who died on the Titanic. That’s just crazy.

[catherinehazur]

This Submersible had been deployed to go on several previous trips down to the Titanic. Just wondering if it gradually developed some micro mini stress fractures due to all that 5000+psi that this vehicle endured multiple times, so that after making it through several voyages, it finally gave way. Apparently it wasn't built to repeatedly withstand the issues it faced at the bottom of the ocean floor 13000 feet down. It's a miracle it didnt give way before now

Did they dry dock it at any point along the way for fine tooth comb safety inspections, or was Stockton Rush just winging it because in his opinion, safety concerns or worries were an insufferable impediment to innovation?

[dmontalvo]

It wasn’t the coast guard that found it, it was the Navy.

[ronaldkulas]

It really does not bother me too much that the 4 adults lost their lives. It was their choice and they probably knew the risks. It does bother me a lot that the teenager was killed.

[frankm]

Closer look? You need to have a microscope to find them now. Closer look? Give me a break

[MeaningPlum]

they knew Sunday this isnt news. what about hunter?

[DJ-tkoe]

Starting to think this was the wives idea

[Jimrox_]

how exactly did they think that going in the deep ocean with a submarine the size of a mini van was a great idea..especially if it’s controlled by a game controller..?

[jmurry]

May these men rest in peace 🕊️ and may God strengthen and comfort their families and loved ones.

[heidicorzine]

Why are we investigating? Who is paying for this?

[devengrant]

When did they start searching for them??

[AMGELECTRONICS]

That Titan mini submarine to me looked too fragile and small for this type of application

[qtz]

Tbh its for the better that it imploded, at least it was a quick death compared to slowly dying while smelling urine and feces while running out of air.