We have an update from the Marine Board of Investigation! Unfortunately the update is that there is no update and we are not getting a report this month, but they hope to hold a public hearing by the end of the year. It's okay, I can wait 😢
The Coast Guard captain in this video confirms at 14:20 something I'd heard speculated a lot but not officially confirmed, which is that the Navy immediately knew the submersible had imploded but dragged their feet on announcing this because it's supposed to be a secret what their underwater monitoring capabilities are.
...after James Cameron has said "oh yeah they told me right away" at 12:00, which does make it kind of a bummer that someone in the Navy must have thought "we can't tell the families, we have to keep up the pretense of a search... but James Cameron needs to know, this is his thing"
Also, I kind of suspected this, but the "transcript" that was "leaked" of the sub's final texts has been confirmed to be a hoax.
Finally, I've seen a lot of people posting "the ocean hungers for billionaires" memes upon seeing the news that another billionaire wants to dive to Titanic, but I regret to inform you that the company he's working with, Triton Submarines, actually has an excellent safety record and by all accounts is run by adults who do not treat it like a tech startup. They built DSV Limiting Factor/Bakunawa, which has been much deeper than Titanic and, unlike Titan, has actually been independently inspected and classified as safe for crewed operations at any depth. So they probably can do this right and the billionaire will not implode. Sorry.
...after James Cameron has said "oh yeah they told me right away" at 12:00, which does make it kind of a bummer that someone in the Navy must have thought "we can't tell the families, we have to keep up the pretense of a search... but James Cameron needs to know, this is his thing"
as someone in the space know, i will say. When you're embedded in a space like James Cameron is, you make contacts and there's plenty of stuff that gets passed around quietly NDAs/classified/proprietary/etc be damned.
There are stories i've heard about things here at the cape that I can't tell, and I'm next to nobody. But when you're that deep in your field, there is absolutely off-the-record gossip.
I'm not surprised in the least that he has contacts in the navy, thru woods hole or whatever or whoever, given his history and track record with submarine things.
Shit leaks, but it never leaks in the right directions, I'll say that much. They definitely should've told the families, that's the point you were trying to make, but bureaucracy got in the way because as the coast guard captain said, "yes, there was an implosion, we were given that information right at the start by the navy, but we wanted proof beyond all doubt before we actually made the call that they were all dead"
and it led everyone on because the difference between knowing and proving was a miserable week of false hope