Titan submersible craft lost [Transportation]

[Jim Eshelman]

Jun 18, 2023, 11:15 AM NDT, 41N43'32" 49W56'49"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Tita ... e_incident

A submersible tour craft called the Titan, which gave tours of the sunken RMS Titanic, went missing June 18 off the Newfoundland coast at the coordinates above. By today, with the onboard oxygen reserve time expired, the crew and passengers (five people) are deemed casualties. The small craft still hasn't been found, though scrap from its outer hull were found this morning.

Each of the three passengers paid $250,000 for the several-day tour.

The craft submerged June 18 at 9:30 AM NDT (12:00 UT) and made contact every 15 minutes. Its last communication was at 11:15 AM, so presumably it experienced whatever disabling problem occurred between 11:15 and 11:30. Saturn (which was stationary) exactly crossed Descendant at 11:04 AM and was 2°00' below the angle at 11:15.

The charts are stunningly good. While I haven't heard about an explosion detected, and while the charts COULD reflect an electrical issue, it looks to me like an explosive decompression or other small explosion.

Year: Capsolar {+3}
Mars on IC 0°20'
Venus on Asc 0°35'
Saturn on Asc 3°18' [at 29° Capricorn]
-- Venus-Uranus sq 0°34'
-- Venus-Mars sq 0°55 M
-- Mars-Saturn sq 2°58' M
-- Venus-Saturn co 3°53 M
Moon-Pluto sq 1°50'

Bridge {+3}
t Pluto op Cansolar MC 11/21-7/17
t Pluto sq Capsolar Moon 2/10-7/28
t Uranus sq Capsolar Asc 4/16-6/28
t Saturn to Capsolar angles 3/23-9/23
Event window: Apr 16 to Jun 28

Quarter: Arisolar {+2 or +3}
Saturn on Asc 2°26'
Moon and Neptune more widely foreground
-- Moon-Saturn co 2°56' M
-- Moon-Uranus sq 2°58'
-- Saturn sq non-foreground Venus 0°39'

Month: Caplunar {+2}
Venus on WPa 0°19'
Pluto on EPa 1°39'
Jupiter on IC 2°51'
-- Venus-Pluto op 0°37'
-- Venus-Mars co 3°55' M
Moon-Pluto co 0°41' M
Moon-Venus op 1°18' M

Week: Arilunar (Dormant.) Moon-Mars.
(Tough dormant, the one foreground planet was Neptune 3°18' from MC.)

Day: Capsolar Quotidian & Transits {0/+3 = +3}
p Asc sq t Uranus 1°36'
p MC sq t Venus 1°01'
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t Pluto sq s Moon 0°06'
t Uranus sq s Asc 1°32'
t Saturn sq s MC 0°22'
-- t Saturn sq s Mars 0°58'

Day: Cansolar Quotidian & Transits {-2/+2= 0?}
p Moon-Venus sq 0°47'
p Asc op p Moon 0°46', sq Venus 0°45'
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t Pluto op s MC 1°17'

[Jim Eshelman]

The charts are stunningly good. While I haven't heard about an explosion detected, and while the charts COULD reflect an electrical issue, it looks to me like an explosive decompression or other small explosion.

Less than an hour after I wrote this (at 12:48 PM PDT), CNN posted the following story:


Missing Titanic sub crew believed to be dead after 'catastrophic implosion'
https://www.cnn.com/americas/live-news/ ... e-06-22-23

The Titanic-bound submersible that went missing on Sunday with five people on board suffered a “catastrophic implosion,” killing everyone on board, US Coast Guard Rear Adm. John Mauger said Thursday. A remotely operated vehicle found the tail cone of the Titan about 1,600 feet away from the bow of the shipwreck, Mauger said.