More ships, equipment joining search for missing sub after reports of banging noises - PBS NewsHour

[ItsjustMe]

Titanic Tourist Submersible Still Missing - LIVE Breaking News Coverag

[SalamanderSleeps]

1. Let's get real.

I truly hope that they are okay, but it's just some rich people doing rich people things.

And then there are those that have real problems.

For example:

https://www.bia.gov/service/mmu/missing-and-murdered-indigenous-people-crisis

[spike jones]

2. Does anyone remember how the movie "On The Beach" ended? n/t

[Grumpy Old Guy]

3. One of my favorite movies.

The American crew leaves Australia to die at home. We see the sub dive, but we don't know what happens to them after that.

[spike jones]

5. Didn't the crew hear a telegraph signal that they thought was someone alive,

but turned out to be the wind blowing a curtain against the key?

[Grumpy Old Guy]

6. Yes, but that was earlier in the movie.

They were hearing the signal down under, so they went to San Francisco to check it out. One crewman jumped ship to stay at home. He was seen fishing in SF Bay. I believe they then returned to Australia, but the crew voted to return to America and die on American soil when it was clear there was no hope.

My favorite scene was the sports car race. Nobody cared if they crashed and no one cleared the wrecks.

[spike jones]

7. Thanks. I checked it out which is what I should have done before posting.

But I trusted an eighty year old's memory of a sixty year old movie that I only watched once. The ending is very sad.

[Grumpy Old Guy]

4. About those knocking sounds.

Was it an SOS? Wouldn't the crew send an SOS to alleviate any confusion about the source of the knocking?

[LastDemocratInSC]

8. I have wondered the same thing.

An SOS signal would be based on the pattern of, and the timing between, the knocking sounds. I think if it was recognized as an SOS we would already know about that. I don't know about ship traffic in that part of the Atlantic but ships are noisy beasts and perhaps that's the origin of the noises. It's a mystery layered on another mystery.