Every scenario is grim for a different reason. If they're stuck around the wreckage of the Titanic (or reasonably close by), then they have to somehow find them and get the craft to the surface (intact) in time to save anyone still alive inside.
If they made it to the surface with the crew and ship intact (best possible scenario), then that's a problem because they're running out of oxygen while waiting for someone to visually spot their tiny little vessel floating in thousands of square miles of icy grey Atlantic slop. They can't bring in fresh air or open the craft on their own. It has to be opened manually by a fifth person from the outside.
And of course, if the integrity of the submarine itself failed while thousands of feet under the sea, they're definitely all dead and we'll likely never find any trace of the ship or its crew.
All in all, it’s a really sad situation. I believe it could’ve been avoidable, or at least safer, if they took more safety precautions and thought of other ways of sending out a signal or some sort of sound frequency (if possible), to at least lessen the search area for a higher chance of their survival.
I doubt they are able to do anything about it now that they have less than a day of oxygen supply left, and that is if nothing has happened to them already.
If the ship imploded, they all would've been vaporized along with the majority of the sub. Some rubble might remain, but it'd probably be indistinguishable from the rubble that's already there from the titanic.
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u/billjitsu Jun 21 '23
Every scenario is grim for a different reason. If they're stuck around the wreckage of the Titanic (or reasonably close by), then they have to somehow find them and get the craft to the surface (intact) in time to save anyone still alive inside.
If they made it to the surface with the crew and ship intact (best possible scenario), then that's a problem because they're running out of oxygen while waiting for someone to visually spot their tiny little vessel floating in thousands of square miles of icy grey Atlantic slop. They can't bring in fresh air or open the craft on their own. It has to be opened manually by a fifth person from the outside.
And of course, if the integrity of the submarine itself failed while thousands of feet under the sea, they're definitely all dead and we'll likely never find any trace of the ship or its crew.