Titan submarine disappearance: 1% survival rate, mysterious sound series and unbelievable sight inside the ship?

On June 18, the Titan submarine carrying passengers to visit the Titanic sank in the ocean lost contact with the mother ship after nearly two hours of departure. The rescue team is racing against time to save 5 passengers before the oxygen runs out.

Since the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, the story of the ship's alleged "unsinkable" incident has become a special piece of history. Although it has been submerged for 111 years on the ocean floor, the remains of the Titanic at the bottom of the ocean are still particularly interested by the super-rich.

To meet the needs of Titanic exploration, the company OceanGate has built a submarine the size of a whale, with a maximum capacity of 5 people to make this journey. It is known that to dive to a depth of 3,800 meters, passengers will have to spend an amount of 250,000 USD (about 5.8 billion VND) / person.

According to the New York Times (USA), now the noises heard from below the waves in the North Atlantic on Tuesday and Wednesday (June 20 and 21) have become the focus of the search. . Teams of experts are examining the noises to determine if they are distress signals from the missing ship. The US Coast Guard said more noise was heard in the search area, although experts do not know what the noises were detected.

David Marquet, a retired US Navy submarine captain, said there are many factors that make the search and rescue mission for the Titan seem hopeless. The observation that finding a submarine in the middle of the ocean is as difficult as going to space: "It's basically like a spaceship that has disappeared on the far side of the Moon. One is, you You have to find it. Second, you have to get there. That's in theory, it's very difficult in practice. I think the chances of survival for those on Titan are 1%."

Visitors who have participated in deep-sea diving tours share that this experience is not very comfortable because it is cramped like being "locked" inside the tube and especially very scary. Spending approximately 6 billion VND for an expedition with submersibles under the ocean, visitors must sign a commitment to be ready with the risk of not being able to survive or being permanently disabled.

According to the latest information, a person on the submarine turned out to be related to 2 ill-fated passengers in the sinking of the Titanic in 1912. Specifically, one of the 5 people on board the missing submarine was Stockton. Rush, CEO of OceanGate Company. There's a strange coincidence here: Mr. Stockton's wife is ancestral to two wealthy passengers who died aboard the real Titanic in 1912.

His wife Stockton Rush - is the little (ie after the grandchildren, great-grandchildren) of the couple Isidor Straus. Mr and Mrs Straus were also very popular and are remembered for their very emotional bond. When the Titanic sank in the Atlantic Ocean, Ida refused to board a lifeboat to stay on the shipwreck with her husband. The beautiful and heartbreaking love story of the Straus grandparents was portrayed in the 1997 film Titanic, directed by James Cameron.

Also on board were 2 other billionaires, rich CEOs and their 2 sons. As rescuers race to find the missing submarine, a series of questions about the safety of the submarine's construction have also arisen.

The documents show that the submarine operator OceanGate, has been warned of serious safety problems. David Lochridge, OceanGate's director of marine operations, said in a 2018 lawsuit that the company's testing and certification was insufficient and would "put passengers in potential extreme danger". OceanGate in 2018 even fired its director of maritime operations Lochridge after he raised concerns about the safety of the Titan submersible.

Not only that, the device operating the Titan ship is the Logitech F710 - a cheap gamepad. This is considered a dangerous design, as some models of the handle sometimes experience 'drift'.

Not only the quality of the submarine, the discovery of Titanic on the ocean floor has also been warned many times because it is very dangerous. As of 2023, there have been many companies providing scuba diving services by submarine, but they are only at low depths for visitors to see marine life, coral reefs... Only OceanGate still is the only company that offers Titanic exploration by submarine.