.Raven__Smith weighs in on the Titan, the missing submarine that lost contact with the surface while diving to the Titanic wreck.
paraded the catwalk yesterday, my mind couldn’t stop refocusing on a specific spot in the North Atlantic and an ongoing search for a missing vessel.dive into
the distressing facts and forecasts. On Sunday, five deep-sea tourists boarded the Titan, a carbon-fibre and titanium craft, in order to visit history’s most renowned shipwreck, the RMS Titanic. The sub lost radio contact and radar tracking two hours into its nearly 13,000-foot descent to the ocean floor. Nothing has been heard since, though a Canadian plane recently reported underwater noise at 30-minute intervals in the search area.
The story has a chokehold on the global consciousness. We simply cannot shake the mental imagery of these men, miles under the surface, huddled together in the closest of quarters, with a limited air supply, a single porthole, and a petrol can to pee into. I’m struggling to move beyond the literal, visceral horror of five people suffocating to death in a pod at the bottom of the ocean. It is a genuine, real-time, horror story.
Theirs is, at this point, quite a well-known square of the Atlantic, notoriously iceberg-y. In 1912, Jack Dawson debatably had room on a floating door there, and in 1997 Rose DeWitt Bukater dropped her necklace in the same spot. Thanks to James Cameron, we are all Titaniacs in some way or another, captivated by that ill-fated maiden voyage. The Titanic’s easily thwarted unsinkable-ness is a cautionary tale of mankind’s belief in science dominating nature, of arrogance.
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