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Don't panic a spokesman from TAT has predicted 20 million tourists during the low season.

The DNV is an independent organization, described as the world's leading classification society for the maritime industry, which certifies vessels such as submersibles and issues regulations for such products. Sorry, Chomper you are correct i was wrong. Why was this craft even allowed in the water if it was not certified? and who should have stopped OceanGate from allowing paying passengers to enter it.

Coming to a Country where the top health minster says your dirty and not welcome might have something to do with it.

Chomper there are no regulatory bodies for manned Submersibles there are bodies for safety of new aircraft and Ships and new road vehicles where they are rigourlesly tested sometimes to destruction but not submeribles for passengers.

Painful lessons will be learened from this tradedy such as stricter regulations improved developments of deep sea exploration, New materials tested matisically for these dephs so people are safer but the risks will always be there. Debris from this Titan will be collected and investigated as to why it imploded was it shoddy test and inspections on the hull integrity being carbon fibre or composit material was it NDT tested after every dive?. The only solace the familys will be thinking now is there lost ones were taken instantaniously and wouldnt have know what took them. Sadly there bodies will never be recovered and will stay on the bottom of the Atlantic with the 1.000 plus bodies of Titanic victims.

Lets be honest people like to visit sights normally out of reach to most such as the Worlds most famouse shipwreck or Bismark or HMS Hood to see for themselves a famouse wreck. Why do people risk there life paying more for a seat on jeff Bezos Blue Origin the CEO of Tron perform reputedly paid 28 million for a trip to space. Your not talking 200k for a trip down to the titanic you pay millions for a seat on this for a view of the earth, People will risk there life for adventure like climbing Everest or going to Antartica where there lives at put at risk. Finally Felix Baumgartner jumped jumped from an altitude of 13 miles for an attempt to skydive record why ?

Yes just being reported now on Sky news Debris has been found nr the Titanic. So sounds like on the initial dive on Sunday the hull or a structure on the Titan failed on the way down causing it to implode and falling to the bottom nr the Titanic RIP.

Just watched a report where a marine geophysicist said that at the depths this Submersible was at it will not be visible past 3-4 meters even with the top-class underwater lights on a slow-moving ROV. He said you could be 4 meters away from a target but miss it due to the visibility. On the imploding theory if anyone has viewed the Thresher or Scorpian nuke subs that Ballard found imploded it was hard to distinguish it being a Submarine due to the torn pieces of metal, these imploded at around 1,500 ft. If this Titan did implode the pieces will be that small and unrecognizable among the Original debris field of the Titanic. It will likely never be found.

I had sympathy at the beginning for these poor souls but now after what we know about this company and the health and safety of this craft you have to wonder how stupid they were to even enter it. No backup plans for quick descent, no backup in case 1 radio fails, no backup to the mothership if comms fail no beacon to transmit their location if all power is lost. Hour of air now and still not been found, even if it is found it will take over 4 hours to raise it so it is now already a recovery to find out what killed them.

How many times have you opened a bottle of water and heard a fizz ?

MMM just watched the video my god cheap charlie company. D pad's batteries have gone who has the spare's ?

Why do people pay to ride in a Rocket for 5 minutes to go into Space ? when they can look up into the night sky.

Well we will know at 12-08 bst tomorrow this is the timethe oxygen supply will end according US coastguard projects.

They only have hours before their Air runs out they still have not located it let alone mount a rescue to bring it up.

if its just a Comms issue power would still be able to resurface the craft. yet it still has not surfaced so it must have lost all elecricle systems resulting in it settling on the seabed. It is reported knocking has been heard from Sonar buoys dropped by a Canadian search plane. Just been watching TV news and the question was asked why is the hatch bolted down from above frigtening resonse is, the first thing someone will do is panic if there trapped in anything with a door the ist thing they will do is go for a hatch thinking they can escape.

Firstly Titanic is sat at 4,000 mtrs aprox 13,000 ft my mistake. The Sub is a composite material so Tug is correct it will be hard to find on Sonar. So far all attempts trying to find it being air, Sonar, a remote controled underwater vehicle have failed to locate it. In my opinion now they will be looking for pieces of it on the seabed bearing in mind it was only 7 mtrs long. I hope i'm wrong but sadly I think its imploded.

As it has not been found yet its either had a catastrophic implosian or just sittin on the seabed. All the best location devices have not located The sub. No lifting devices or brackets that a rope can be attached to raise it. The American dept that gives out safety notices only gave this " Titan " craft a cerificate for safely diving to 3 thousand metres. Titanic is two and a half miles down 12.500 mtrs. I would expect Ballard to come to the rescue attempt but times against them.

A mini Sub belonging to Ocean Gate Expeditions has lost contact with its Mother ship during a dive down to the Titanic wreck. The five paying customers are trapped with two days of Air supply left. Contact was lost an hour into the dive. Titanic lies 12,500 ft on the bottom of the Atlantic a two n a half hour trip to the wreck site. No conventional Submarine can dive that deep without imploding due to the pressure at those kinds of depths and only specialist unmanned subs can be used to explore these depths. Even a DSRV can not be used. Sadly the people are trapped will most likely run out of Oxygen before a rescue can be attempted.

Well Well Well here go again Agoda wading in asking how will Thailand attracting Tourist's. Maybe Agoda should be asking the TOT why there not attracting the millions they keep predicting will be coming. Maybe ask why do they make it difficult for a long staying tourists to leave to do a visa run, would it not be better to give them a six month visa, Will they give discounts to domestic airlines to lure more tourists, will they treat there tourists as guests with respect and curtersy and send them home happy to spread the word what a lovely holiday they had instead of them returning saying never again. Will they tell the tourism industry to stop the scamming and offer incentives to lure more Tourists. Im no hotel boss in Phuket or Koh Samui but if my hotel opened up once Covid was over id reduce prices pre Covid to fill the hotel. What did the majority of hotels do? doubled the prices Suicide. To end the TOT decided to ignore the bread n butter western tourists mainly Europeans in favour of high end Chinese, Indian , even Saudi tourists. This has not and will not happen what do they have now in Phuket and Patayya? mostly draft dodging Russians. Well done.

Mmm how to attract more tourists? Well let's start with a tourist posting a trip report on a hotel or a restaurant about the poor service and how it was defended by that establishment.

I would imagine if someone jumped on a vehicle substantial damage will occur if this is the case who will pay for the damage.

Number one lesson when in Thailand " Do not try and argue with a Thai you will lose. Do not expect the local police to defend you in an argument with a Thai. Simply walk away Do not think you have the right to defend yourself like in the West when you can argue with the other individual, and finally remember these three letters TIT.

Well thats a first

This Russian is very lucky only 3 security staff did him usually there are 4-5 joining in.

So what are kiddie pageants all about in the US? Why dress kids up with full makeup under 10 yrs, yet its accepted?