OT Rescue mission launched for Titanic submarine with five people aboard after it went missing.

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  1. Chris Craig

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    If that's true they are out of business. About to be sued to all hell anyway.
     
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    Nice trivia pull, I forgot all about that!
     
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    I'm not eve sure I'd want to ride in something like that *above* the water let alone in the ocean down 3K meters. Hell, I wouldn't want to ride in that thing in Firwood Lake (the name of the pond at Laurelhurst Park).
     
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    Yeah, I haven't heard if there was a distress signal or any other communication had been made. But at that depth, if there was a sudden structural failure, death would come instantly.
     
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    They have one window so that's where they put the toilet.

    [​IMG]

    There is no way I could sit cross-legged like that for hours and/or days. I'd be using the pooping window a lot!
     
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    I was kidding about getting parts from Home Depot and Harbor Freight but I was just watching an old interview on CNN with the dude who designed the sub and he used parts from... Camping World.
     
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    Hey kinda’ on this same subject…..the other day I got back to my hotel from our job site….only about 2 miles. Couldn’t find my Apple Watch. I rarely take it off, but must have sat it down. I used my FINDMY app on my phone and saw it moving a couple blocks away from work…. I started pinging it like crazy. All of a sudden on the map I could see it was heading back to work. Got a call from one of the guys in charge and said they found it. So somebody stole my watch and got freaked out when it was making all that noise and returned it. Phew!
    So maybe on the next one they strap an AppleWatch on the side and this wouldn’t even be a story?
    #iSub
     
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    I LIKE THIS IDEA!

    But we need proof of concept that it will work.

    Put the watch on and jump into the ocean, when you reach 12,ooo ft send me a text message.
     
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    Standby……
     
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    Imagine becoming a billionaire and then climbing into something that Tony Star built in a cave with spare parts and diving down over 12,000 feet.
     
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    A rare manatee sighting off the Oregon coast...see home video of it here first on KPTV...
     
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    [​IMG]
     
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    Fighting to stay awake but their best chance for rescue is to bang against the hull and yell. Not good, not good at all.

    Sonar drones are deployed to find Titanic explorers lost in 22ft tube at the bottom of the Atlantic – as experts say the chances of success are wretched, and passengers' best hope might be to BANG on the hull
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...explorers-lost-22ft-tube-bottom-Atlantic.html
     
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    This is a freaking nightmare. Please tell me there is at least an LED light in there with enough batteries to outlast the CO2 scrubber...
     
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    Literally one of my worst fears. I cant imagine what they are going through right now.
     
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    I think you're safe.

    First you'd have to be a billionaire.

    Then you'd have to be willing to shell out $250k.

    Then you'd have to be willing to climb into this floating tomb.
     
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    Crazy story
     
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