Comments by "SmallSpoonBrigade" (@SmallSpoonBrigade) on "Coast Guard says noises heard again in search for missing Titanic-bound sub" video.

@rottingravensblood9106 Yes, I don't understand a billionaire being willing to go down in a sub like that. The effective difference between $250k for this and whatever it costs to go down on a real sub designed and rated for the depth is probably not that much.
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@rair1118 In all likelihood they're out of business regardless of what happens. Either via people deciding not to trust them in the future, the subsequent lawsuits or being crushed by demands for repayment of some of the recovery costs.
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@Karebear42069 Possibly, but depending on how long it takes to identify the source of the banging, retrieve the sub and get them out of there, there's a really high probability of them being dead or severely brain damaged by the time the y can crack the seal on the sub. I doubt there's any provisioning for clearing out the air without cracking the seal. It is technically possible that they will be safe, but it's a very, very low probability.
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Most likely, there was an emergency ballast release mechanism that was intended to bring it to the surface, but there should also be a beacon, or more, that would help searchers to identify where it's floating on the surface. That doesn't appear to have happened, which means that it likely is either on the bottom or imploded. If the tapping is indeed manmade, then they're pretty much damned to a short period of misery before ultimately asphyxiating as recovering the sub in the available time is more or less impossible.
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@michelesiger6890 For a poor person $250k is a lot of money, for a billionaire, there's little difference between that and $25m. Somewhere between the two figures lies an amount that would cover passage in a real sub rated for that depth.
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@downhomesunset Yes, although that 96 hours was a best possible case scenario. They might already be nearly dead from the change in composition of the gases in their breathing supply.
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