RESCUE teams are desperately searching for a missing submarine carrying five passengers - with just 72 hours of oxygen left on board. It's believed Brit billionaire Hamish Harding, French diving expert Paul-Henry Nargeolet and submarine boss Stockton Rush are among those missing.
Rescue crews are frantically searching the Atlantic Ocean after the $ 255,000-a-head voyage disappeared while heading to the wreckage of the Titanic. OceanGate's sub - Titan - has the capacity for one pilot and four others and an oxygen supply able to last 96 hours. It means at the time I'm posting this they have around 50 hours of air left.
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I wonder if we still have the Sound Underwater Surveillance System (SOSUS) working up in that area. If the sub imploded it would leave a pretty big sound signature that would have been recorded by the Navy.
ReplyDeletewell, I know I sure could think of better ways to waste my money than go see some ship wreck.
ReplyDeleteA lot of us are happy right now that we don't have $250,000 to waste.
ReplyDeleteWhy spent a quarter million bucks to go to the North Atlantic and see a ship wreck, when you can watch the news out of DC and see a train wreck for free ?
ReplyDeleteNot all adventures end safely. Adventures that involve situations that are inherently fatal without special precautions (high altitudes, deep water, high/low temperatures) are well known to end with damaged or dead adventurers. I don't believe the costs when these choices go wrong should be socialized (paid for by the common purse)- let the participants post a rescue bond. Indeed, require a recovery or clean-up fee where the demand is high (eg, Mt Everest).
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