This is pretty much how I feel. We don't send these kinds of assets after normal people. But we send the navy and scramble everything we can over a handful of billionaires.

How is that the fault of the people who are now in that sub?

I do feel bad for the 19 year old that’s in there, though. That’s just so young.

One of the folks in there is the CEO of the submersible company, and I figure he’s having a FAFO moment right now.

Someone died once somewhere and therefore we shouldn't care when other people might also die

Good contribution to the thread

Yeah I'm not really sympathetic to the sheer quantity of resources being thrown at this situation. The same resources could be better applied to so many other unaddressed problems. These (mostly wealthy) people made a risk and are paying for it, why do the rest of us have to pay for it too?

and this right here is why I feel so... uncarring. Okay, I feel sorry for the kid. He didn't make an informed decision. but yeah, the others? They presumably knew the risks.

Yep. These people only have that wealth because so many others have so much less.

Assuming they’re on the bottom, they’d have to get a ship with about 4 km of cable to pull them up. (More probably. The titanic is at about 3.8km; as well as the ROVs

I’m not sure it has a hatch that can be used to transfer passengers onto a rescue sub. Kinda sounds like it doesn’t. (Assuming they even have a rescue sub in the area.)

Being that deep, they'll die of hypothermia before the oxygen runs out.

The sub has capabilities to surface. It's probably snagged on something from it's loose cables.

That’s assuming that they haven’t imploded already

"96 hours of air for five people, you say?" <brief struggle> "100.8 hours for four."

They'll eat him first lol

Doesn't the sub have 96 hours of air or something?

I see I'm not the only one thinking that.

Falk: "Why are... millions of dollars in resources, hundreds of people, and dozens of ships and airplanes being... used to look for the lost sub Titan?"

Rescuer: "Well, we are trying to find the submersible because it is lost."

Falk: "Does the submersible contain... more oxygen or a way for the people trapped inside to get to the surface?"

Rescuer: "It has about 40 hours of air left, and there isn't a way for the people to get to the surface."

Falk: "And and and it will take many hours to get another submersible here?"

Rescuer: "... yeah..."

Falk: "I have good news. I have found the submersible. It is in the ocean below us. I have bad news. The people inside are dead. I am Michael Falk. I have found the lost Titan."

They can't use a flare gun or even leave the submersible because they were sealed in from the outside. They are likely on the surface because the banging was picked up by buoys, but the search area is so large that it's unlikely they'll be found. Also the banging is part of the search and rescue process as they bang every half hour.

Frightening.