What Happened to the Titanic Submarine

the fact that the submarine failed EVERY SINGLE SAFTEY TEST and the CEO still decided to take people down there is absolutely outrageous to me

The 19 year old is the saddest part of this whole story. The other 4 were grown men with a history of exploring, fully aware of the risks posed. The kid was dragged along with his dad and went to please him, his aunt today said of how terrified he was. 😢

An insane thing most people don't know is that the reason he was communicating with the crew via text messaging (even though they lost connection every single time they did these trips) Is because he made them disable the system in place to be contacted every 15 minutes and keep communication open, because the beeping annoyed him and he didn't want to listen to it the entire ride.

There is actually one weird that was somehow sparked by this. The creator of Iron Lung came out and said that sales for his game spiked as the tragedy was unfolding, even going so far as to say: "It feels so wrong." If that doesn't feel morbid, the reviews on Steam certainly are.

Josh Gates, an archaeologist on the Discovery Channel, apparently went on one of Titan’s first test dives because he wanted to film an episode about the Titanic. He refused to go through with it because of safety concerns. This is a guy who repelled down a muddy cliff side that was literally falling apart as he went because he wanted to find mammoth DNA.

The CEO said that the submersible industry was "obscenly safe and hadn't had an accident in 35 years." Well, if his mission was to break that record through negligence and hubris, he surely succeeded. It's almost like the industry has standards for a reason. And that's what kept it safe for decades on end.

If I'm not mistaken the CEO had said he'd want to be remembered by the rules he breaks as in being an underdog innovator. There's something so horribly poetic about that.

Stockton Rush caused his own demise. It’s sad he lost his life but I was mainly sorry for the four other passengers he took with him, who paid him $250k a piece for deep sea exploration only to have their safety disregarded and their lives lost as well, all because they were so convinced this man knew what he was talking about. Yes, I know they signed the waivers and everything - but Stockton Rush must have been extremely convincing for his passengers to get inside that thing.

Another thing Charlie didn't mention: The CEO admitted in 2021 that the sub was made using carbon fiber instead of solid metal as it should have been. Not only that, he got the carbon fiber at a discount becuase it was past its rated shelf life. He made that damn thing out of expired carbon fiber.

I feel immensely sorry for the 19-year-old. He was terrified but braved it for his dad and ultimately ended up dying with him.

This reminds me of Half-Life. The scientists ignored all the warning signs that things weren't up to code, and yet they went on with the experiment anyway. Next thing you know, all hell figuratively and literally breaks loose. When I first played the game, I thought to myself: "This is ridiculous! As if a modern, high-tech company like that would disregard all safety precautions and endanger the lives of all its employees!" I'd like to congratulate the CEO of OceanGate for proving me wrong.

As a prior submariner there are multiple safety checks that are done prior to putting the boat under the water for a deployment or an underway. Any discrepancies are recorded and given to multiple high ranking officers and enlisted at the squadron the boat belongs to. Any checks that failed have to be approved by multiple people to allow the boat to go to sea despite those failures.

Literally everyone warned the CEO that this was doomed to fail. The CEO claimed people were "stifling innovation". Seems all too common that a CEO leads a sinking ship. RIP to the 19-year old who was brave enough to go into the depths just because it was father's day. Truly a legend.

This situation is very unfortunate, but also interesting how the CEO met his fate to his own ignorance.

I feel so bad for all 5 of those guys, they just wanted to have a good time, and the 19 year old just wanted to spend time with his dad, but they died due to Rush's absolutely awful decisions. It honestly makes my blood boil.

James Cameron was in an interview along with Dr. Robert Ballard, the man who discovered Titanic and how they heard about the Titan going missing. Bob was at sea when news of the Titan reached him, he called up Jim and both concluded that it fell victim to an implosion, but said nothing about it, hoping that they were wrong, but ultimately they were right. Bob Ballard actually knew Stockton Rush when he met him in his younger years and Stockton told Bob that his dream was to explore the Titanic to which Ballard had said in the interview as ‘A Dream that became a Nightmare.’ Ballard would tell of his experience in submersibles like the Alvin and how he felt safe in that submersible while exploring the wreck of the Olympic-Class Ocean Liner, Titanic. Stockton Rush let his pride and innovative ideas get to him, despite being told that the Titan was not safe and even fired an engineer who spoke out against using the sub.

By the way, for anyone wondering, a waiver of one's right to sue for death or injury does not apply in cases of gross or criminal negligence, which this certainly meets the bar for, given their flagrant disregard for safety regulations. OceanGate should be sued into oblivion.

The saddest part is the kid who was on board — apparently he didn’t want to go and was terrified of the whole expedition but felt pressured to go because he wanted to please his dad. Absolutely devastating that he ended up dying, exactly what he feared was going to happen.

I started to suspect the sub instantly imploded when the connection was lost because more info on its horrible construction came out over time. A lot less terrifying compared to the alternatives. They died faster than the nervous system could even process anything. Its gruesome, but painless

Just so people know, even though Charlie probably already covered it: When the pressure gets deep enough, the light goes away. Once you pass that point, you are asking for trouble. Once you get to these depths, the pressure is something even titanium might have trouble with. Nobody was ever going to find them BECAUSE of the pressure. There’s a reason nothing down there has anything solid. Like bones or really any internal structure to speak of. And it’s not the lack of light. It’s the pressure. Anything down there alive is alive because it can survive two miles of 30 degree or less ocean water Idrc who thought they would find something but a three second google search for “ what happens to human bodies at a two mile depth” would’ve told anyone what they were gonna find. It’s the reason the titanic is there, everyone’s belongings but no bodies. Bodies get liquified. They’re not built for that level of fuck me fuck you pressure. They just aren’t. Apologies to anyone who was in the rescue teams or are mourning, but this is the harsh reality. There’s no bodies. Just whatever they had on. No paste. No skin, bone fragments. Nothing. They’ve been liquified through pure force in the form of water. Addendum: As clear cut as it is, I wanted to update this: I saw this somewhere (and this was years ago) and idk where but one estimate was it took somewhere from either 3 months to 6 months or 3-6 weeks for this process to happen. (People write bad “articles” all the time, so it’s not a surprise) This is clearly not the case. The people involved in this sheer negligence were missing after a day. Even after finding shards of the sub, there was nothing left of them. So they don’t even last a week down there, let alone a few days. That’s how high the pressure is.