If they experienced an emergency underwater and were not able to surface, I'd fear for the absolute worst.
People can survive in sunken submarines long enough to be rescued, but those are typically large submarines with multiple rooms that they can seal themselves off in. I doubt a tourist submarine, or really any submarine going to this depth, has multiple compartments. Many military submarines have a test depth of around ~1,500ft or less & a crush depth of around ~2,500ft or less. Titanic sits at 12,500ft. It takes specialized subs to get to this depth, and they're typically very small, one cramped compartment, vessels.
Even if they sank but did not suffer a leak, it's unlikely there would an air supply long enough to support a rescue.
If they sank, a rescue seems very unlikely. Nonetheless, I hope for the best.
Indeed, from their website: https://web.archive.org/web/20230613051805/https://oceangate...
"Is there a bathroom on the sub?
There is a small toilet located in Titan’s front dome – it doubles as the best seat in the house. When the toilet is in use, we install a privacy curtain between the dome and the main compartment and turn the music up loud."
Instead, the weights (attached with electromagnets) are simply jettisoned when it is time to recover to the surface and off you go. The upside to such a simple system, of course, is that it is exceedingly reliable and fail safe.
Provided you do not suffer a hull implosion, of course.
From: https://www.forbes.com/sites/katherinehamilton/2023/06/19/he...
"Pogue also shows the vessel uses construction pipes as ballast."
I'm having trouble finding the interview video, but dropping ballast involves the crew and passengers rocking the vessel to drop the pipes off the side.
Unfortunately (and I hope I am wrong) I suspect the vessel is drifting in deep water or stuck on the sea floor - if it were shallow they'd have probably found it already.
[1] I found this photo on Reddit of what is apparently a partially-submerged Italian navy submarine photographed from a P-3 Orion on a training exercise - I was surprised how good the visibility is https://i.redd.it/eb68q4j1pnt71.jpg commentary: https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/q8u9te/a...
Regardless, for a sub like this to just go missing, likely means something catastrophic happened. At those pressures, the individuals likely died instantly and felt no pain.
Only if the hull imploded. Dying from say co2 poisoning can be quite unpleasant.
https://www.navy.mil/Resources/Fact-Files/Display-FactFiles/...
The most they could do is send an ROV to search for the lost submarine on the bottom, and perhaps attach a lift bag or recovery cable.