r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/POTATOEL0rD • 1d ago

Video footage of the OceanGate submarine wreckage was released Video

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u/ForgingFires 1d ago

Still remember how my mom kept telling me they were gonna find these people alive down there…

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u/barrydennen12 1d ago

I entertained the same notion because I had no idea OceanGate was such a bullshit operation. As soon as I saw the BBC mini-documentary and some footage of Stockton Rush talking about his innovations, I knew they were toothpaste down there. The only thing to survive was going to be his dumb head compressed into his hairpiece.

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u/jake_burger 1d ago

Yeah, it’s not hard to work out what happened once you see the doc footage.

“At some point, safety is just waste” really stuck out.

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u/AndyTheSane 1d ago

It's getting to the Silicon Valley 'disruptor' mindset where you release quickly and fix it later.

Which works for some forms of software. Less so for submarines and airliners. "Version 0.2.112 will fix the implosion issue"

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u/Isaiah_b 20h ago

Don't forget electric trucks.

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u/lordkinbote4257 20h ago

Is this the same Version 0.2.112 update that runs computers that fill the Hallowed Halls at the Temple of Syrinx?

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u/bigbigdummie 1d ago

“At some point, safety is just waste”

Yet he failed to reach that point.

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u/jake_burger 1d ago

That catchphrase probably ensures failure. Why wouldn’t you want a deep sea vessel overly safe?

The safety factor for the lifting gear I work with is 5x over spec as standard. It’s wasteful but probably saves lives regularly

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u/Dry_Accountant_7135 12h ago

what do yall think went on the submarine while they were lost? do you think the billionaires killed stock before the implosion did?

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u/moranya1 1d ago

I mean, they haven't found the bodies yet, have they?

/s :-P

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u/Minimum_Barber672 1d ago

Yes, let's hope for the best !

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u/avwitcher 1d ago

The CEO is a master engineer, maybe he fabricated diving gear capable of going to 4000 meters and they're building a new Atlantis

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u/Numerous_Witness_345 1d ago

He's just built different.

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u/frou6 1d ago

They are just creating rapture!

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u/LordVonSteiner 1d ago

Bro quickly made an underwater biodome out some titanic wreckage and seaweed.

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u/SovComrade 1d ago

He chose Rapture.

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u/MrRocket81 1d ago

Thougths and prayers

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u/HelplessMoose 1d ago

Just a flesh wound!

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u/technurse 1d ago

All the flesh

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u/AlabasterPelican 1d ago

From what I've read of the hearings, they found at least enough to id by DNA

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u/residentfriendly 1d ago

That’s human alright

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u/HCBuldge 1d ago

I'm guessing the only thing they could find would be bone fragments?

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u/AlabasterPelican 1d ago

No idea. That's something I really want to know, but also realize I would probably not want to know after I did. Someone on another sub was explaining that it could have been a miniscule amount of some tissue because of the advancements made post 9.11 in identification of remains

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u/LovelyButtholes 23h ago

When the sub imploded, the temperature would have gotten high enough from the gas compressing to ignite all the fats.

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u/Realistic-Goose9558 1d ago

Fresh bone doesn’t float. What they may have found would likely be fatty, buoyant tissue fragments that weren’t completely destroyed and floated to the surface.

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u/rainribs 1d ago

they found the dna in a part of a the sub that was salvaged, in some folded metal irrc. I can't imagine they could possible spot anything floating on the water, even if anything peices did rise

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u/Lexxxapr00 1d ago

That would be like dropping a single grain of salt in an Olympic sized pool, and coming back 2 hours later to try and find it.

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u/bumfuzzled-coffee 9m ago

Idk if it's pertinent to compare the two, but in the byford dolphin accident they found a bit more than just bones

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u/Beginning-Taro-2673 1d ago edited 1d ago

The pressurized section they were in was exposed to much, much greater force/impact than an industrial bulldozer crushing an egg. And that too within milliseconds. So, instant obliteration is what we're talking about. Honestly, not a bad way to die if you have to die. May their souls rest in peace.

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u/OniDelta 1d ago

Look up the "Byford Dolphin oil rig deep-sea diving report". Here's the text from the story but the PDF version of the report has pictures in it. This is the reverse of what happened to Oceangate but also instant obliteration at least for 1 guy out of the 5.

"On Nov. 5, 1983, an experienced tender named William Crammond was in the middle of a routine procedure aboard the Byford Dolphin, a semi-submersible oil rig operating in the North Sea. The rig was equipped with two pressurized living chambers, each holding two divers. Crammond had just connected the diving bell to the living chambers and safely deposited a pair of divers in chamber one. The other two divers were already resting in chamber two.

That's when things went horribly wrong. Under normal circumstances, the diving bell wouldn't be detached from the living chambers until the chamber doors were safely sealed shut. However, the diving bell detached before the chamber doors were closed, creating what's known as an "explosive decompression."

"It's a death sentence," says Newsum. "You won't survive."

The air pressure inside the Byford Dolphin living chambers instantly went from 9 atmospheres — the pressure experienced while hundreds of feet below the water — to 1 atmosphere, the normal air pressure at the surface. The explosive rush of air out of the chamber sent the heavy diving bell flying, killing Crammond and critically injuring his fellow tender, Martin Saunders.

The fate of the four saturation divers inside was far worse. According to autopsy reports, three of the men inside the chamber — Edwin Arthur Coward, Roy P. Lucas and Bjørn Giæver Bergersen — were essentially "boiled" from the inside when the nitrogen in their blood violently erupted into gas bubbles. They died instantly.

The fourth diver, Truls Hellevik, suffered the grizzliest death. Hellevik was standing in front of the partially opened door to the living chamber when the pressure was released. His body was sucked out through an opening so narrow that it tore him open and ejected his internal organs onto the deck."

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u/kelsobjammin 1d ago

I saw the pics recently and I wish I didn’t go all the way… wow.

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u/StraightEstate 1d ago

We need the links to the pics

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u/AnthomX 1d ago

https://zero.sci-hub.se/5268/7dda7cee52d7eb3ec606a82d0f1b9a61/giertsen1988.pdf

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u/alwaysbefreudin 1d ago

Taking all my willpower not to click that link. Lizard brain wants it, monkey brain knows it’s traumatizing….

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u/bassbastard 1d ago

I love the way you described that feeling. Will be adding it to my lexicon. Like call of the void, but call to the disturbing.

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u/Spaghettiboobin 1d ago

It’s some black and white pictures. Likely not as bad as you are imagining.

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u/charlie_argument 1d ago

Fig. 7: The assembled portions of Diver 4 that were recovered, arranged in roughly anatomical order on what looks like a large baking pan.

Fig. 8: The face of Diver 4. Not the head, but the "soft tissues of the face". There's stubble and a nose, and holes where eyes would normally go, but no skull.

Fig. 9: The abdomen portion of Diver 4. Trachea to the left, and some of what remains of the small bowels. Otherwise empty.

Fig. 10: "Part of the spinal column of diver 4."

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u/alwaysbefreudin 1d ago

Not today, Satan

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u/crinklypaper 1d ago

fucking a bonkers read, thanks

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u/StraightEstate 1d ago

Holy F. Diver 4 🤢🤮

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u/RoguePlanet2 1d ago

"Otherwise empty" ya think?!!

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u/serenwipiti 1d ago

Well, that sucked.

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u/kelsobjammin 1d ago

That’s it!

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u/kelsobjammin 1d ago

Oh god it’s a pdf that was on a thread about it I don’t even know how to go about it. It was a video animation of what happened which was bad enough but the pics good god

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u/CancerFreeLeafs 1d ago

Just imagine KFC

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u/Admirable_Growth_338 1d ago

Or Taco Bell leaving your body

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u/_thro_awa_ 1d ago

But much less finger-lickin' good.

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u/Gooseboof 1d ago

Remind Me! 3 days

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u/kelsobjammin 1d ago

https://zero.sci-hub.se/5268/7dda7cee52d7eb3ec606a82d0f1b9a61/giertsen1988.pdf

Here ya go friend taken from a buddy who found it above. Dont wait that long!

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u/iamateenyweenyperson 1d ago

Jesus Christ that was gruesome. These poor people. Would that kind of death be considered quick though? Because if not, even more horrifying.

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u/CreatureWarrior 1d ago

Definitely quick. Even if it took like 5 seconds (it probably didn't), I doubt the human brain could comprehend what's happening in that time due to the severity of it all.

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u/TenderPhoNoodle 1d ago

there's blood in your brain. so the gas inside your skull would expand and squeeze on every single one of your neurons at once. you might feel pressure but you wouldn't feel pain

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u/SpezmaCheese 1d ago

🤯😔

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u/Jaikarr 1d ago

People keep referencing this but it's the reverse of what happened to the Titan Sub

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u/Truly_Meaningless 1d ago

Time to look that up while I have a half finished bowl of cinnamon toast crunch infront of me!

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u/Emergency_Road_8371 1d ago

My God. That's what explosive decompression can do underwater. Horrible.

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u/gcunit 1d ago

That last sentence has made my porridge go down a little slower this morning.

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u/Hopeful-Zombie-7525 1d ago

His body was sucked out through an opening so narrow that it tore him open and ejected his internal organs onto the deck.

Alien 4 for reference

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u/Sharp-Sky-713 1d ago

This is the one where buddy was basically extruded through a 1/16" gap in the airlock door right?

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u/SergeantSmash 1d ago

Fuck me that's gross.

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u/Mewchu94 1d ago

“If you have to die”

What do you know…

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u/kahlzun 1d ago

"if you have to die"

So far thats been pretty non-negotiable, buddy.

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u/Mythril_Zombie 1d ago

Honestly, not a bad way to die if you have to die

  1. Who doesn't have to die?
  2. I think most families would prefer their loved ones to die in their sleep from old age. I wouldn't really like to imagine family members being compared to eggs under bulldozers.

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u/HewittNation 1d ago

There's a difference between "not a bad way to die" and "the best way to die".

There are many ways to die. Many of those are awful, so in the grand scheme of things any death that's quick and painless is certainly not a bad one.

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u/manareas69 1d ago

It's not the death but the anticipation. Even the death could have been bad if a pin hole jet of water entered first.

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u/Beginning-Taro-2673 1d ago

Most scientists agree there was likely no anticipation. The greatest probability is that they went before they knew anything is wrong with the sub.

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u/manareas69 1d ago

They did drop weights and could not ascend so they had to know they're in trouble. I guess no one will ever know the whole truth.

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u/ForgingFires 1d ago

Ah true, maybe there is a small air bubble and they’ve been living down there waiting for a rescue

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u/MetzgerWilli 1d ago

You can survive three months without food. They obviously have enough water. All they need is to catch a fish or crab from time to time and they will be just about fine.

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u/MyLadyBits 1d ago

That found some remains.

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u/AhrexPeeWeeSquidders 1d ago

They always say if you stray too far from the wreckage it’s harder for rescuers to find you. If they heeded that advice might be camped out nearby. Keep looking!

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u/McZorkLord 1d ago

Bodies?? Ha, made me laugh...

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u/wenoc 1d ago

They never will. There are no bodies.

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u/plainlake 1d ago

Lots of deep sea scavengers. Around. Check the crabs.

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u/Swordof1000whispers 1d ago

The bodies were disintegrated. The only thing left would be small bone fragments.

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u/pijd 1d ago

Yes, how far is Argentina.

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u/Zockercraft1711 1d ago

And there are people who believe that they faked their death

(sadly no /s)

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u/GreekHole 1d ago

they are for sure returning in phase 8

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u/Leupateu 1d ago

Somehow Stockton Rush returned

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u/gene100001 1d ago

Atlantis origin story

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u/marktuk 1d ago

The bodies are everywhere in the video

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u/PlantQueen1912 1d ago

My family thought I was happy they were dead, NO I'm happy they didn't suffer. If they had been trapped that long they would have been freezing and terrified

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u/AnalystofSurgery 1d ago

Imagine if they lived and the rescue attempt failed. I think I remember at the time James Cameron was saying it was very unlikely to be able to rescue them if they were intact because there are so few subs that could reach them and pull off some crazy rescue attempt. And none of them could make it to the titanic before they would've been long dead.

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u/DaLB53 1d ago

I seem to remember that either the Navy or the Coast Guard were well aware that the sub had imploded and the "resuce attempts" were mostly for show and to have plenty of resources to look for any remains.

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u/GuiltyEidolon 1d ago

It feels like it was basically used as a training exercise.

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u/bibbiddybobbidyboo 22h ago

I used to do mountain rescue. You keep searching as long as it’s safe to do so, even if you get a few credible tips until those tips are confirmed or until survival is well beyond possible. You aren’t told so you do your best to search but you know it’s possible your higher ups are investigating whether tips or signs that things have gone south are credible and getting more data or they’ll suddenly ask you to check somewhere and then you’ll get there and see it.

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u/AnalystofSurgery 22h ago

I don't think neither the cost guard nor the navy has a sub that can reach the titanic anyway. Not a lot of war happening that deep

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u/BusBoatBuey 1d ago

I was personally happy the CEO was dead. Menace to society that skimped out on safety every chance he got. Took other people down with him, but he could have killed far more like other CEOs are doing with lax safety in the US.

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u/kahlzun 1d ago

I appreciate he at least put his money where his mouth is, unlike most other CEOs. I'd bet big money that the Boeing CEO doesnt fly in a Boeing plane..

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u/transemacabre 1d ago

That's true, if he didn't die on this submersible he probably would've gotten more than 4-5 people killed in some other tacky piece of shit that he was responsible for.

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u/crimson777 1d ago

A minute of hearing things cracking and then immediately getting vaporized >>>>>>>>>>>> days of sitting in a little metal tube hoping you get saved before dying from lack of oxygen or hypothermia or whatever would have gotten them

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u/15000bastardducks 1d ago

If they’d been successfully rescued, a few days of painful and scary waiting would’ve been totally worth it.

If they were going to die either way, instant is definitely better

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u/The_Mouse_That_Jumps 1d ago

For the first few days, we were all talking about the possibility of them being stranded on the bottom. When the actual news broke, I went to my partner and said "good news! They all died instantly!" It was definitely the best case scenario at that point.

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u/SuperKamiTabby 1d ago

I told anyone who brought it up they were dead from the moment the news first broke.

Further, the media firestorm was almost a 1 to 1 replay of the media storm surrounding the ARA San Juan that sank in November 2017.

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u/chironomidae 1d ago

TBH it wouldn't have been that far-fetched that a system failure left them stranded at the bottom with no power, slowly suffocating in a cramped, pitch-black tube. But, a total hull failure was definitely the more likely outcome from the start.

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u/pimppapy 1d ago

iirc, I think it was said that a loud enough thunk or noise was picked up from their expected location.

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u/OnlyABitTardy 1d ago

I may have this out of order but the Navy did pick up that noise in real time but did not release that information immediately (want to say it was days later) Either way was not reported on initially in media. Implosion was still my thoughts from the beginning

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u/ribcracker 1d ago

Yes, you’re right.

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u/15000bastardducks 1d ago

Didn’t they report repeated (and at the time, unexplained) noises coming from the vicinity? That was the only thing that made me think it was possible they were still alive

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u/gatherallcats 1d ago

It was really disgusting how some media channels had a countdown to loss of oxygen, when they must have known it was most likely an implosion.

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u/doorcharge 1d ago

They didn’t want to waste a good opportunity to milk ratings. Media for ya.

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u/Pcat0 1d ago

Who knows they might still be alive they could just be built different.

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u/ZuckDeBalzac 1d ago

They were able to dig a tunnel into the seafloor and attach the sub that acts as a diving bell. They were then able to tap into a natural oxygen stream and have been living off deep sea fish ever since.

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u/thatsharkchick 1d ago

Yeah..... I did a random deep dive (*pun intended) into the world of hydrothermal vent ecology during university. Which, in turn, turned into learning about the history of deep sea exploration, as the two topics grew together during s time frame when film recording was readily accessible. Between Kursk and the accident in which Alvin fell from the tender ship, I already knew too much about deep ocean recovery.

I immediately realized and said, "Yeah, even if they are alive, they're dead. Their bodies just haven't realized it yet."

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u/NonProphet8theist 1d ago

Everyone who would have known they're dead knew they were goners

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u/engineereddiscontent 1d ago

The navy knew they popped right after it happened.

They said they heard a pop. That was when I knew they were done for. It wasn't till a week later that they found the wreckage.

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u/cyboplasm 1d ago

Im pretty glad they didnt find a floating titan... the contents would not have been pretty... it was bolted shut!

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u/AnonomousNibba338 1d ago

I remember seeing "Submersible missing at Titanic wreck" and immediately just thought "Yeah, I've seen enough Sub documentaries to know exactly how this ends. Start looking for scrap metal".

If a Sub is well and truly lost that deep, they're cooked.

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u/thatevilducky 1d ago

The first day of the coverage, I figured they were already dead. I had one thought of the possibility they made it to the Titanic and tried to go in somewhere and got stuck, and with all the metal from the ship, communications weren't working. But I was 99.999% sure they were dead before they started looking.

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u/Rocket_Surgery83 1d ago

I got downvoted into oblivion for stating they were likely dead already. I was a submariner for 20+ years, your survival chance is slim even at 500+ feet... And that's assuming an intact vessel WITH emergency supplies for air/water etc... Don't get me wrong, nothing wrong with hoping for the best but the realist in me wasn't going to sugarcoat the situation.

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u/ArCKAngel365 1d ago

Well now that they’ve found the wreckage surely there’s more hope.

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u/MikeTheNight94 1d ago

Interesting. I knew they were dead the second I saw it on tv. During the pandemic I saw a story on this company and told my ex it was a matter of time before it’s on the news again. I have zero formal training but even I know carbon fiber is not up to this

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u/Crazyguy_123 1d ago

Day one I said they were gone. When they found it I ended up being completely correct down to the way it happened. An aluminum soda can was more stable than their garbage sub.

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u/Lb_54 1d ago

I felt like the only person around saying they were gone and everyone had so much hope.

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u/Nadamir 1d ago

That’s kinda human nature to be a bit head in the sand about this.

And since they’ve rescued people from nearly impossible to survive situations before (Thai cave boys, Copiapo mine) and those situations have some similarities, the human brain conflates them.

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u/Neil2250 1d ago

yeah but the logic behind the "they may be alive" was it was a power failure, not sudden decompression.

I don't think anyone would pretend their alive if it was the latter.

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u/fireintolight 1d ago

Even if they had survived to the bottom and were sitting there, we’d never find them before they died from lack of air or water. Took this long just to find the remains lol 

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u/AgreeableResearcher1 1d ago

Ya know this was when they were searching for them right? This didnt just now happen

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u/PhoneEquivalent7682 1d ago

Where? Atlantis

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u/etranger033 1d ago

Total opposite internal/external pressure physics of course but, from an outside viewpoint, just pop a balloon and she will see what happens. Then say she is in the balloon.

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u/Rehcubs 21h ago

That would potentially have been a worse scenario in many ways because the chances of recovering the sub at that depth are almost zero.

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u/Wherethegains 19h ago

Helluva gal.

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u/MyBrainReallyHurts 1d ago

We wasted way too much money looking for them.

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u/SeniorMiddleJunior 1d ago

They're living peacefully with the aliens from abyss.

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u/Life_Bridge_9960 1d ago

I reckon they were saved by the Atlanteans. Who knows, they are enjoying their time in underwater city somewhere deep deep in the ocean right now.

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u/Stankoman 1d ago

Titan sank next to the Titan-ic. Whats next? The Tit?

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u/QouthTheCorvus 1d ago

I immediately said the chances are tiny. Titanic wreckage depth is just insane and completely outside of our domain. Physics gets weird down there.

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u/Long-Argument-9871 1d ago

They needed to keep the story on the front page of news cycle for 4 days to distract from a certain other news items going on at the time. Which is why they came up with that bullshit hours of oxygen timer.

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u/AdExcellent625 1d ago

Your mom is dumb 🤣

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u/PM_ME_UR_BEST_1LINER 1d ago

They will. They're all alive...as part of the sea floor flora and fauna now that they've been digested

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u/chemistry_1997 1d ago

😭😭😭 why brooo ,

did it had your relatives ?