re: Titanic tourist submarine goes missing

Not sure if it was posted here, but there was a reporter who either did go on one of these or was and it fell through, but he said you would be there for like 5 days or a week and they would make multiple dives and most of them resulted in an abort because of some issue with the sub. Success rate for actually making it to the bottom wasn't that great.

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People in the thread were complaining about how taxpayers are picking up the tab. In this case these baws have/will (estate tax) pay a very substantial amount of taxes... now I'm not suggesting that the Fire Department shouldn't put out the fire at a poor persons house but to complain about taxpayers picking up the tab is puzzling

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Remind me, what are the US estate taxes for the Pakistani and British billionaires?

You see the concern with the USCG picking up the tab for international water and a private corporation that could be based anywhere?

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What if the banging caused the fail in the structure?

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In previous posts, it was mentioned that the ballast was rigged up scaffolding pipes sitting on a shelf on either side of the sub, and that they had to rock the sub by leaning from one side to the other to release it. It was also mentioned in another post (by an ex navy submariner) that the sub was descending too quickly and they were attempting to lose the ballast to slow the rate just before communications stopped.

It may be possible that if the hull was already weakened, the violent attempts to rock the sub by it's occupants under the immense pressures of the depths may have pushed the compromised hull to the point of failure.

Seems like a debris field was found in the search area.

Time will tell if it’s the sub or not.

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Seems like a debris field was found in the search area. Time will tell if it’s the sub or not.

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You can actually go back in time and tell:

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Sky News reporting the debris found is the landing frame and rear cover from the submerisble.

LINK

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Seems like a debris field was found in the search area.

Time will tell if it’s the sub or not.

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has been reported the "OceanGate" name is on the debris.

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Ryan Dunn story all over again.

Texags OP confirms a distress signal was sent to mothership just before implosion.

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it has been reported the "OceanGate" name is on the debris.

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Peeps need to stop using “Gate” on stuff bad things happen

WaterGate (the original)
OceanGate
DeflateGate (Brady footballs)
NippleGate (Janet J superbowl)
SpyGate (NE FB spying)

And many more.

Maybe a dumb question, but with how much pressure there is at that depth, how has the Titanic basically maintained it's form? I know it's built a lot sturdier but I would assume at some point it would have collapsed.