For those who are unaware: A couple billionaires, a pilot, and one of the billionaires’ son are currently stuck inside an extremely tiny sub a couple thousand meters under the sea (inside of the sub with the guys above).

They were supposed to dive down to the titanic, but lost connection about halfway down. They’ve been missing for the past 48 hours, and have 2 days until the oxygen in the sub runs out. Do you think they’ll make it?

  • Double_A
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    2 years ago

    No. Chances are high that that submarine just imploded in a millisecond and they just instantly died. Why else would it stop sending pings and completely dissappear otherwise?

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        2 years ago

        Power failure is my guess too, then they would have just drifted down to the bottom and froze to death in a few hours. Terrible way to die.

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      2 years ago

      I cant speak for myself but i think communication in general is a very well understood topic. If that fails you can just assume everyone is dead. I am not sure if the banging is real tho or if it was something else

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      2 years ago

      The ocean is amazing at blocking radio signals, they don’t need to have stopped sending pings for us to stop hearing them.

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        2 years ago

        They didn’t use radio underwater since as noted, it doesn’t work. They had a low frequency transmission system.

    • Nine
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      2 years ago

      That would be the best case…

    • zeppo
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      2 years ago

      The sub losing communication had happened many times before. That was why the surface ship took hours to alert authorities. As far as disappearing, one possibility was they had deployed emergency systems to rise to the surface, but couldn’t be located because the sub was painted white, it doesn’t even float directly on the surface, the ocean is vast and they could have been many miles from where they started.