I wouldn’t do that either if the spacecraft didn’t have to meet safety regulations.
I mean don’t get me wrong - I get the idea of the experience. I want to experience tons of things but I won’t do it without being safe about it.
Titanic Submersible
- Thread starter Darts
- Start date
I mean don’t get me wrong - I get the idea of the experience. I want to experience tons of things but I won’t do it without being safe about it.
Here’s another vid discussing how it is that wealthy, powerful people can be prone to making risky decisions.
As the titantic sunk near newfoundland the canadian coast guard is very much part of this rescue so who is paying the tab for stupid rich peoples bucket list ? Us ?
Last edited:
I suspect you are correct but it takes many hours to go down
and back up with a few hours down to look out a ten inch
window . Although they have a few days oxygen
it is not a few days adventure but at that level
communication is down and all bets are off, not
aware of how they communicate but it is not the internet
must have an attached cable?
I mean send an unmanned device with a camera later on. How did they find the titanic? The chance of finding them alive is small. They might be delirious and killed each other by now.
Been done before, usually schedule about 5 per year I think but regularly get canceled due to weather conditions I believe.
The owner of the company is onboard. I can't believe they didn't have a separately powered satellite location signal device on board and the guy fired the employee who suggested there were safety issues....DOH!
It is not like the mother ship can just position itself right
above the Titanic shipwreck and slowly drop the sub into
the destination. It happened in a few occasions the sub
was unable to reach the Titanic. If the sub is sitting on the
ocean floor I think it is very likely to be located within an
area way greater than one defined by the perimeter of the
site of the wreck. I presume the sub had little to no control
of its movement due to ocean current on its way down.
/shrug
Shit happens.
Whether we realize it or not, all of us make decisions everyday that contain elements of risk. Most of those decisions the risk is minuscule. Sometimes the risk is large. Like seeing SPs to state the obvious.
me, I work in a high risk environment. The risk for physical harm is high. Everyday. Decisions are made in split seconds, that could be the difference between going home or to the hospital. Does that make me an idiot??? Most of those currently trying to find/recover them. Likewise idiots? People that serve in combat?
There’s also the adrenaline rush when you’re in danger. I’d bet some of my money, these guys were adrenaline junkies and the types who measure risk differently.
That said, do agree some or most of the recovery cost should be put on the estate.
Last edited:
People died on the titanic and it's essentially their grave. Maybe they should have left the twin towers the way it was after 911 so visitors could visit the site.
The ocean is saying we're in charge.
To me the only logical explanation is an implosion.
Because....if they merely lost communication, they could still surface, and I think that they could be found in that case. They could probably inflate air bags that I heard this thing has that might make them more visible.
Anyhow, if they are on the surface, the craft should eventually be found, with the crew alive or dead.
If they were tangled in something, this line of reasoning would require them to ALSO lose communication ability, but it would not be the Titanic they were entangled with because they were not far enough along in their descent to reach it, UNLESS they lost communication and still decided to proceed.
All other options require TWO different things to go wrong at the same time, which is less likely. And it would have to be communication FIRST.
An implosion makes sense. I learned on the news last night that these things cannot make descents indefinitely - apparently some kind of material fatigue sets in.
There would likely be no leak, no warning, just BOOM. The pressure is too immense, unceasing, it never lets up for a microsecond, once there was the slightest weakness, the tiniest breach or bend, it would seek out the next weakness instantaneously for all intensive purposes, the chain reaction would be insanely fast.
Think of it as every square inch of the thing constantly having the force of a bullet on it every second.
I hope I am wrong, because of the deep location, total darkness, it is a scary death to consider.
Because....if they merely lost communication, they could still surface, and I think that they could be found in that case. They could probably inflate air bags that I heard this thing has that might make them more visible.
Anyhow, if they are on the surface, the craft should eventually be found, with the crew alive or dead.
If they were tangled in something, this line of reasoning would require them to ALSO lose communication ability, but it would not be the Titanic they were entangled with because they were not far enough along in their descent to reach it, UNLESS they lost communication and still decided to proceed.
All other options require TWO different things to go wrong at the same time, which is less likely. And it would have to be communication FIRST.
An implosion makes sense. I learned on the news last night that these things cannot make descents indefinitely - apparently some kind of material fatigue sets in.
There would likely be no leak, no warning, just BOOM. The pressure is too immense, unceasing, it never lets up for a microsecond, once there was the slightest weakness, the tiniest breach or bend, it would seek out the next weakness instantaneously for all intensive purposes, the chain reaction would be insanely fast.
Think of it as every square inch of the thing constantly having the force of a bullet on it every second.
I hope I am wrong, because of the deep location, total darkness, it is a scary death to consider.
No, and that appears the be the problem. Its a completely unregulated business.
Any yahoo can build one of these submersives and start selling tickets.
Whats kinda funny is that billionaires are usually smart people but they got completely taken in here.
I guess they forgot to read the small print
Last edited:
