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Titanic tourist sub goes missing sparking search (www.bbc.com)

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Submersible used to take tourists to view wreck of Titanic goes missing in Atlantic Ocean, sparking search and rescue mission.

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[–] Calcharger@kbin.social 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (13 children)

Unless they are coming up on their own, it takes about 2.5 hours to get down to the wreck, and what I've read online is that these subs carry like edit:12 hours of oxygen. Docs on the submarine show 96 hours of oxygen, this was wrong of me to guess

They need to get a towing vessel to the area, they need to get the rescue sub down to the bottom, winch up, and get back up. 6 hours of work once you're there. That means they have less than 4.5 hours to get on station. It's 1000 miles from Boston. Ain't no ship in the world sailing at under 200 knots.

Bad news only from this. They gotta get up on their own.

[–] Dickbutt@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You don’t think the host ship they depart from has an emergency vessel ?

[–] Calcharger@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

I'd hope that they would, but if they are relying on the coast guard to help out, they aren't gonna get there in time

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