No talk of passengers, so at the very least one person is missing, but up to 5. Also they have no other submersible that can reach that depth. From an insurance stance, that sounds like a massive liability risk to undertake, not to mention it’s just unwise.
So, in the live feed the BBC has going, there's a post suggesting that a group of explorers were apparently on board based on one of them's Facebook feed, so it's safe to say they probably had the full passenger set on there.
In one article from last year, the reporter said that someone has mortgaged their house to go on the trip. It's not even rich folks. It's fucking idiots.
Still a horrible death, being trapped in a can with no way out.
Just listened a podcast about the deepest ever submarine rescue. It's pretty much all hands on deck worldwide when a submarine goes missing. Atleast then it was. There aren't many rescue vessels that can go that deep.
I need them to find the submersible for my own mental sake. The list of phobias that this is checking off is too much. Claustrophobia, thalassophobia, mazeophobia..
Apparently, the sub's supposed to have a suite of systems to more or less warn the pilot if things are looking dicey, so hopefully this is a communications problem and not something worse.