I guess you all have heard it already, the sub, named Titan, that was lost on a trip to the Titanic.
Below is a picture of the lost crew/passengers.
It’s a tragedy, the deaths, but they knew there was one helluva rlrisk.
I think I called it accurately from the beginning, the sub descended, it takes two hours to reach depth. 1 hour, 45 minutes into the dive, almost there, contact was lost. I said to my co.worker, “it got almost to the bottom and imploded like a light bulb breaking. Instant, nearly painless death for all. ( I’m pretty sure light bulbs have a vacuum inside to prevent the filament from burning rapidly, that’s why they pop like they do when they break) Well, at that depth, inside the sub was probably comparatively closer to a vacuum than the inside of a light bulb.
I questioned my theory when the news said there was “banging” heard.
Also there is very little, if any, equipment that could recover an object as big as the Titan sub at that depth.
From the beginning, if anything went wrong they were pretty screwed, and I’m sure they knew it.
But what a way to go… Beats dying in a hospital bed.
Happy Friday Yee haw!
The news said today that they were vaporized in the implosion.
Yes it was instantaneous.
Yes, very sad indeed. To put it into perspective, I’m surprised we live past our teen years with all of the risks taken and all of the busses out there that could have run over us. In my CPA practice I always told all employees, “Make complete notes in client files about all conversations, all calculations, all returns filed, etc. You never know when you might be hit by a bus on the way into the office….” Sounds morbid, but so very true.