Missing Titanic Submarine

Marydoll

My DH has informed me that debris has been found. 😪

Just saw this on tv, if true then a quick death at least.

I also hope the debris means that barring a miracle, there was a catastrophe early on.

Thats what I thought. A very sad conclusion.

Seems it happened very soon after contact was lost, and was immediate, they would not have known anything about it, which is far better than slowly suffocating to death I suppose

Announcement at 8pm our time tonight.

Very sad, I was hoping that they would be found, their poor families.
I hope if they did perish the end was quick.

B9exchange

Seems it happened very soon after contact was lost, and was immediate, they would not have known anything about it, which is far better than slowly suffocating to death I suppose

It seems to be looking that way. A quick death is infinitely preferable to them slowly suffocating. Imagine that 19-year-old having to watch his father die - or his father watching him die.

I was praying for a rescue, now I will pray for their souls RIP

Like others, my first reaction when i heard the news and that pieces of the vessel they were in had been found, was a feeling of relief that what happened to those on board was quick and sudden.

not at all

I also hope it was quick. What a nightmare for their families. RIP

Yes, sadly it appears that debris has been found from the craft - there is a press conference shortly. I was listening to an expert on the news who said its highly likely that the submersible imploded just before it lost comms - I truly hope so, an instant and painless death rather than slowly dying over days whilst running out of oxygen. My thoughts are with their families - RIP.

Seems like they died instantly.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12223805/Debris-field-discovered-search-area-near-Titanic.html

A terrible tragedy and maybe with time there'll be some comfort for family and friends knowing that they didn't suffer.

A small mercy, compared to a slow, lingering death over many days, possibly in complete darkness. Condolences to their family and friends, who have been through a dreadful ordeal. May their souls rest in peace.

So terribly sad.

May they RIP. Terribly sad.

RIP, so very sad.

I think many experts in the field suspected all along that there had been a catastrophic failure and that the vessel had imploded.

From what my OH tells me, it would all have been over in milliseconds - not even time for any thoughts to have registered in the brain, so they would've been totally unaware.

Some comfort, at least, for the families who must have been struggling with thoughts of them suffering a lingering death.

Thank the Lord it seems it would have been instant. The thought that they were suffering a slow death by suffocation was unbearable, all the more so for their families. RIP.

Dickens

I think many experts in the field suspected all along that there had been a catastrophic failure and that the vessel had imploded.

From what my OH tells me, it would all have been over in milliseconds - not even time for any thoughts to have registered in the brain, so they would've been totally unaware.

Some comfort, at least, for the families who must have been struggling with thoughts of them suffering a lingering death.

I think you're likely correct, Dickens. A pilot on one of the US space shuttles explained the most dangerous bit is launch, arriving into orbit - this seems much the same I suppose.

Sad news. RIP souls.

I have just listened to an interview, where the person being interviewed on his views about this awful tragedy, commented that we have become a nation of voyeurs.
I tend to agree.

Not sure what you mean by that. We are just concerned about this which has been all over the news, and now just thankful that it appears their death must have been more merciful than at first thought. RIP.

Marydoll

I have just listened to an interview, where the person being interviewed on his views about this awful tragedy, commented that we have become a nation of voyeurs.
I tend to agree.

I don't believe we're anymore voyeuristic. If you look back to some of the newspaper reports of Victorian times, they were similar. Now we have rolling news coverage.

Human nature is such that I think people need to make sense of tragedies, to understand the causes, as a way of rationalising the unpredictable world we live in.

I just find it all very intrusive and it makes me uneasy, it doesn't mean my view is correct. It's just how I feel.
Now we pick over every aspect of a person's life, want to know every intimate detail and technology makes that possible. You can't compare it with Victorian times.
I feel the families should be allowed to grieve privately.