LIVE: CBS confirms, debris from Titan submersible indicates rapid and catastrophic implosion. The people on board are believed to be dead.

With the current news surfacing (so to speak) about neglect and dismissal of safety concerns by the owner, that lawsuit is potentially going to be massive.

You know, if I were ever to go down to the depth of the ocean with my friends and family on board to see the Titanic, I would make sure that the vehicle I'm riding in is overbuilt for safety and that everything that could go wrong is considered beforehand.

Why take any risk at all? With the amount of money that they had they could have hired an entire crew of an actual submarine for a day or two.

I know a lot of people (not here necessarily) have been commenting on how these were rich people, but regardless of their financial situation they were just people first. I don't know anything about them and that being the case I'm going with this being a tragedy. I feel for the families that were left behind.

I just can’t understand why ANYONE with that much money wouldn’t be a little more careful about where they choose to take risk. A little investigation on their part would have turned up the previous safety concerns.

Better to die in an instant than the alternative.

Can't wait for the Internet Historian video in a few years.

Anyway, what did everybody have for lunch today?

At least they didn't have to suffer for any stretch of time, I hope.

Before wreckage found: We hear banging every 30 minutes

After wreckage found: We heard a big pop on Sunday

Am curious how long this has been there and whether perhaps the "banging" was not related whatsoever.

So, I understand that because water is not compressible, animals without air in their bodies are safe at such high pressures in the deep sea, but what I'm wondering is what would it look like if a human in the deep sea was suddenly exposed to those pressures, as would happen if a submarine rapidly pressurizes? I know the lungs would collapse and whatnot because the air would be pressurized into I'm guessing a liquid, like how propane sloshes when under pressure in a tank, but what else? What causes the instant death? Maybe the water shoots into nose/mouth so fast it acts like a bullet and applies a bunch of force to the walls internally?

Much better way to go right. Better than having sit in there for days.

Congratulations the the 5 latest Darwin Award winners.

quick and painless, probably better than they deserved.

Glad they found something, and that they probably didn't suffer.

There’s a whole lot of hindsight happening in this thread. “They should have known. They ignored the risks. I would have done better.”

If James Cameron had died on his deep sea expedition, people would have said all the same things. He didn’t, so we all just lauded him for being a badass.

Hindsight is 20/20!