Titan Sub Debacle

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There are reports they were dumping ballast and attempting to ascend as they were managing a problem. They reckon the thing may have started to delaminate before the implosion. The final act would have been milliseconds but they may have been aware of their fate for minutes.

Not wanting to fuel the conspiracies.

If you were stuck down there and fading slowly with no hope of rescue, which would you prefer, dissolving into a stinking anaerobic sludge of leaking bodily fluids and bad gases, or a quick and merciful torpedo!

If you are an authority, putting hundreds of people and millions or billions of dollars of resources at risk to rescue people who voluntarily put themselves at risk, which do you choose, the hopelessly slow rescue attempt or the quick and merciful depth charge?

I know what I'd want, and I wouldn't be at all surprised to find that system actually carrying it's own quick and merciful self-destruct mechanism, it wouldn't be any harder than rigging up the explosive mounts on an aircraft door.

Now some will take offense at the very suggestions I make, but you know the reality is the occupants decision was really being made before they went.

Astronauts have known this for decades, there is no rescue, there is no coming back if things go wrong, and there is no survival. As high as you can possible go or as low as you can get, the risk is the same.

If you want or expect someone to rescue you, do not go in the first place!

If you are going to do tough stuff, it comes with risk, ask Scott, ask Shackleton, check out the photography of Frank Hurley and the story of the Endurance.