Jun 21, 2023

Crazy stuff.

 

Jun 21, 2023

Timeline of Titan's voyage

Reuters has published a timeline of the Titan’s voyage, starting on Friday when it set off:

Friday: expedition sets off from St John’s, Newfoundland, Canada.
Saturday: British billionaire and adventurer Hamish Harding, one of those onboard the submersible, posts on Facebook: “Due to the worst winter in Newfoundland in 40 years, this mission is likely to be the first and only manned mission to the Titanic in 2023. A weather window has just opened up and we are going to attempt a dive tomorrow.”
Sunday 08.00 GMT: Time the submersible originally aimed to start its descent, according to a post by Harding on Instagram. It actually started its descent later, according to the US Coast Guard.
12.00 GMT: The submersible starts what should be a two-hour descent to the Titanic wreck, nearly 4,000 metres down, according to the US Coast Guard.
13.45 GMT: Communications between the submersible and the surface vessel are lost 1 hour and 45 minutes after starting its descent.
19.00 GMT: Titan is scheduled to return to the surface, the US Coast Guard says but fails to appear.
21.40 GMT: Coast Guard receives report about an overdue submersible from the research vessel Polar Prince about 900 nautical miles east of Cape Cod on the US coast.
Monday: US and Canadian ships and planes are swarming the area, some dropping sonar buoys that can monitor to a depth of almost 4,000 metres, US Coast Guard R Adm John Mauger says. Officials have also asked commercial vessels for help.
Tuesday: 14.50 GMT France says it will help with search by deploying Atalante, a ship equipped with a deep-sea diving vessel. It is expected to arrive late on Wednesday.
During the day: Sounds detected over several hours by Canadian Lockheed P-3 Orion aircraft, equipped with gear to trace submarines. CNN and Rolling Stone magazine report banging sounds at 30-minute intervals had been detected.
Wednesday: US Coast Guard, US Navy, Canadian Coast Guard and OceanGate Expeditions establish a unified command to handle the search.
06.00 GMT: US Coast Guard confirms Canadian P-3 aircraft detected underwater noises. It says remotely operated vehicle (ROV) searches are directed to the area of the sounds and the data is also sent to US Navy experts for analysis.
Thursday: 10.00 GMT: Approximate deadline for when the air in the submersible will run out, based on the US Coast Guard’s estimate that the Titan could have up to 96 hours of air supply from the time it was sealed.

 

Jun 21, 2023

 

Jun 21, 2023

Terrifying experience to live out your last few days.

 

Jun 21, 2023

The latest is that sonar picked up on a banging noise every 30 minutes, but they haven't been able to pinpoint the location of the noise/vessel at this point... so it sounds like it was probably a mechanical/electrical malfunction and that they're still alive down there

 

Jun 21, 2023

Pretty sure this is a distraction from Hunter Biden getting off easy. I bet they will show up with 1 hour to go. Heard one report they're using a game controller? Sounds like they're chilling on the titanic playing COD or something. Hope I'm wrong cause that would be a rough way to go.

 

Jun 21, 2023

the real f----- up thing is that if they actually managed/manage to surface on their own, they could be floating in the middle of the ocean somewhere, suffocating to death because they can't open the vessel from the inside...it's bolted shut from the outside and only someone outside can open it. so rescuers are attempting to cover the ocean surface and subterrain over a massive area.

 

Jun 21, 2023

i assumed that the vessel has a way of regulating temperature at those depths?

sounds like they had at least some food & water rations onboard. stretching those out i'm sure they could survive a few days.

hyperventilation seems most likely. "96 hours of air supply" goes by pretty quickly when everyone is in panic mode

 

Jun 21, 2023

same same with airplanes tbh