To answer the OP, no. The Titanic is the only movie I have in my library that is based on a true event that I like. I couldn't wait to get out of a canoe when I was little and if you fell in you probably could stand up but I didn't know that. Scared to death feeling the pull of those oars and the rock/swaying, ugh and this happened before my mother signed me up for swimming lessons which only lasted one session.
Searches claim to have spotted a debris field near the wreck of the Titanic. An anonymous source says they spotted the landing gear and rear hatch of the submersible. Many had been speculating that any fresh wreckage would be easy to identify due to the extensive mapping that's been done of the Titanic site. Another thing to consider is that this is not like something sinking in a still lake. Ocean currents carry objects hundreds and thousands of miles. The search area had already been expanded to thousands of miles—twice the size of Connecticut--even though they know the exact point the submersible entered the water and its exact destination. There is a US Coast Guard press conference scheduled for 3PM EST this afternoon (Thursday June 22.) link to article
It's confirmed that there was a sudden implosion of the submersible with no survivors. It is not known how far into the dive the event occurred. RIP link
Most likely. One would think that when they lost communications early on, they would have returned if they had been able to. Two prior dives were cut short due to the batteries dying almost immediately. On one dive, the first battery went dead and the second was at 40% only an hour into the trip, so they turned around. Those people were lucky. Since there is a debris field, it imploded near the bottom. I don't know what the likelihood is of it free-falling for a mile and landing near the Titanic if it lost power early on. There are lots of questions. The fact that it imploded indicates that those expressing design concerns were right. This is the exact concern that fired engineer expressed. [edit to add: They were 1 hour 45 minutes into their 2 hour dive to the bottom when comms were lost, leading one to suppose this is when it imploded.]
They are now reporting they have found a debris field with some parts matching the submersible and it appears that it suffered a “catastrophic implosion”.
And now the news is coming out that the US Navy has known about this since Sunday, but Biden just authorized the release of that information today. The Navy has a ship called the Manhattan that detected the implosion hours after the submersible left on Sunday; so all of this drama of the search and how many hours of oxygen were left was just drama to distract from the Hunter Biden mess that is now hitting mainstream news.
I learned to swim in the 50s and it was at the future Jr High School I would eventually attend. The school was strange because the swimming pool was in a lower basement and the windows were ground level up high, it made you feel weird already before you ever stuck a toe in. Of course you had to walk down a half flight of stairs from the locker room and that too made the event pretty doggone scary for young kids. I have no idea if they still have the pool but overall the school still looks the same other than normal facial appearance outside which has been upgraded. No air conditioning back in Jr High, the school like all schools of the period had those tall windows which would be open. I don't think I ever heard of any kid falling out of a window but it was always a fight to get that seat nearest a window so you could star gaze and feel a hot breeze to stay cool. It was my Church that sponsored the summer swim classes and it was only down the street a half a block. Today nothing remains of the Church except the outside ground level bell tower that once held loud speakers that would play bell music. I was in Math Class the day Kennedy was killed and they sent everyone home. My friend and I went across the street into the alley and had a smoke. The next day it was cold and rainy and no school which I think it was a weekend anyway. I never saw the sight in Dallas until I was dropped at the bus station down town Dallas when I was reporting to the missile base. I had to take an old Kerville Bus which was a major carrier in Texas at the time. The bus pulled over on the curb in front of my Headquarters. It was an old Air Force Radar station that the Army took possession of in Duncanville Tx. I got off the bus and the bus driver could not find my bag, it was three days before they dropped the bag. Everyone was gone except a skeleton crew because it was Christmas. There was a large open field to the right side of the long rectangular post which did not have but a few buildings. On the far side of that field was an apartment complex and the fence was down for repair I believe. My First Sgt put me on guard duty late evenings and I had a little Ford van that I would drive around that open field for 4 hours just to make sure no one came into the post property. He handed me a gas credit card and told me when I needed gas to just drive off the curb and go get it. Now that was my kind of duty, I had just left a cold snowy winter at Fort Campbell
I didn't think of that. They weren't there because of the disaster, because that happened less than 2 hours after launch.