We now believe that our CEO Stockton Rush, Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman Dawood, Hamish Harding, and Paul-Henri Nargeolet, have sadly been lost.
Confirmation from Ocean Gate. I don’t think anyone is surprised, but that doesn’t take away from how tragic it is.
I’m watching the briefing. They’ve found 5 pieces, including the pressure hull in multiple pieces, suggesting a catastrophic implusion and meaning instantaneous death for the passengers. So at least they didn’t suffer and, according to one expert, wouldn’t have even known there was a problem.
Some interesting information.
Confirmed they recorded no implosion from any of the buoys, so implying it happened pretty early on…
Also interesting seeing a Royal Navy Lieutenant Commander in the background. I assume this is Richard Kantharia who is our expert assisting?
Reckon it was as soon as they lost contact then?
That seems to be what is being implied, but not confirmed.
He said the US Coat Guard had sonar buoys out in the water for 72 hours. Since they had been in place, they had not detected “any catastrophic events,” he adds.
Interesting.
Wonder what that “knocking” was then.
Could have been literally anything. Given the number of other ships moved into the area it could have easily been from one of them. They weren’t all Navy ship so wouldn’t of had a good silent routine.
Read a news piece saying that when the Argentinian sub went down years ago they heard the same knocking and it turned out to be some seismic noise.
Was thoughts it could be the currents running through titanic
Reading the Wikipedia page it appears the submersible had no non-destructive testing /x-rays & had been used for several drives.
I’m thinking that metal fatigue after repeated dives may have played a part.
Someone is getting sued to high heavens. Maybe jail time
You don’t just operate a vehicle at the absolute max of it’s endurance and not inspect it for preventative maint… 
Probably not… The guy in charge was on board as well.
I quite enjoy dark humour, the memes for this have been coming thick and fast.
Can’t believe how awful some people have been. Truly sinking to new lows.
You haven’t worked in an intensive care unit.
No I haven’t. Can imagine it’s pretty macabre…
Given the pressure in that environment its remarkable
Cars have an annial MOT and recommended service schedule based on miles driven
Aircraft have certificates of airworthiness and TBO based on hours of use…
Yet this vehicle in the most hostile environment had…nothing?
Because it was to cutting edge to be certified…or some BS
Pure hubris.
Legislation, procedures, and approval processes “stifle innovation”. That may be true to an extent, but the intention then is that you prove your case for stepping outside of the norm. Cutting corners isn’t innovation.
It’s sad that it’s come to this, but he messed around and found out; shame he took others with him.
As much as I like dark humour I think a lot of this has been over the line, especially while the search was still going on.
I include some of the very insensitive comments about the wealth of the victims here in that view.
We are talking about an environment where less people have been than space, the rules are somewhat make it up as you go along.
So the Navy some how might have heard the implosion, days ago, when the contact was initially lost.
Looks to me like the US Navy have some super secret acoustic system they don’t want people knowing about!