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Titanic tourist sub goes missing sparking search
(www.bbc.com)
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this post was submitted on 19 Jun 2023
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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.
Eh, here's a question from the bbc article in question:
they must have edited it since then. I have updated my post to reflect the actual info
Great! I'd still not at all want to be stuck there. Also, just loosing contact with the sub feels like a majorly bad sign.
Id say that it indicates a catastrophic failure most likely, a far more preferable fate if you ask me rather than sitting on the bottom waiting for air to run out.
Oh totally, I'd rather die quickly in a submarine than slowly. Another reason to not be in a submarine.