Titanic Submersible

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If anything good comes out of this the government will now come up with much stricter regulations for civilian owned submersibles
But if it is international waters - nothing anyone can do about it.
 

Indiana

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Canada doesn’t have any P-8 aircraft.
Something sounds fishy.
Again disappears far out at sea ala Malaysia Air?
Just saying…
 

Insidious Von

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Who the fuck runs OceanGate, George Santos? The went cheap on the porthole and the navigation system.

Not only that, they waited 8 hrs before informing the Canadian Coast Guard who then informed the US Navy Command. Considering the time it takes the US Navy to prepare the equipment for a sunken submarine rescue attempt, that's approximately 18 hrs wasted.

So Filippo is probably right, the porthole caved and they had a quick death.

 
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Old sailor proverb.

"May you have a girl in every port
and a port in every girl"

A little bit of humour at a time of crises.
 

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Apparently a new possibility that I just read about is a total loss of power:

"CBS News journalist David Pogue, who traveled to the Titanic aboard the Titan last year, said the vehicle uses two communication systems: text messages that go back and forth to a surface ship and safety pings that are emitted every 15 minutes to indicate that the sub is still working.


Both of those systems stopped about an hour and 45 minutes after the Titan submerged.

“There are only two things that could mean. Either they lost all power or the ship developed a hull breach and it imploded instantly. Both of those are devastatingly hopeless,” Pogue told the Canadian CBC network on Tuesday."
I like a thrill as much as the next guy but traveling 12000’ underwater is taking it to a whole other level!

What’s odd to me is they’re isn’t some redundant safety or communication system? Obviously there’s a ship that launched this submersible within a few miles of the coordinates? Every thing in a commercial aircraft, rocket, military sub has multiple backup’s in case something does go wrong.

For what this thing weighs you would think they’re would be an emergency air bag deployment or something to surface it if something did go wrong? Jesus cripes go low tech & have a Kevlar tether attached from the launching slip? Cripes a 25’ 30,000lb Kevlar crane sling you can lift with one finger!

Modern military subs have been in service 100+ years & still fail now & again with usually tragic results. Going 3 or 4 times deeper what even the best military subs go is playing with fire if you ask me. I’m sure a lot of engineering went into this but I can’t see any practical way of testing it. The people that went down previously in this & survived the voyage should be thanking their lucky stars!

Hope they make up before they run out of oxygen or that it didn’t implode, either way it would be a horrible death. My heart goes out to the families.
 
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"In that report for
@CBSSunday
pointed to the jerry rigged components of the vessel."

Holy shit. That sounds like my bike which is held together with chicken wires and duck (duct) tape. No wonder nobody wants to steal my bike.
 

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Even if they found them and they are alive, what can they possibly do to rescue them?
 

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I guess they were thinking, other people have made the trip to see the Titanic in the Titan and lived to tell the tale. If it made it once or twice, should be okay. My guess is there won't be another trip planned in it, if they ever do recover it.
 

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Canadians found the noises


A Canadian search plane detected noises underwater in the search area and crews were focused on finding the origin of the sounds.

"With respect to the noises, specifically, we don't know what they are, to be frank with you," Coast Guard Capt. Jamie Frederick said at a briefing Wednesday. "We're searching in the area where the noises were detected."


He said the team has two ROVs — remotely operated underwater vehicles — "actively searching," plus several more are on the way and expected to join the search operation Thursday

Best scenario they find sub on surface but as it can not be opened from inside they still would be running out of oxygen
 
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Canadians found the noises


A Canadian search plane detected noises underwater in the search area and crews were focused on finding the origin of the sounds.

"With respect to the noises, specifically, we don't know what they are, to be frank with you," Coast Guard Capt. Jamie Frederick said at a briefing Wednesday. "We're searching in the area where the noises were detected."


He said the team has two ROVs — remotely operated underwater vehicles — "actively searching," plus several more are on the way and expected to join the search operation Thursday
The noises?

 

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I like a thrill as much as the next guy but traveling 12000’ underwater is taking it to a whole other level!

What’s odd to me is they’re isn’t some redundant safety or communication system? Obviously there’s a ship that launched this submersible within a few miles of the coordinates? Every thing in a commercial aircraft, rocket, military sub has multiple backup’s in case something does go wrong.

For what this thing weighs you would think they’re would be an emergency air bag deployment or something to surface it if something did go wrong? Jesus cripes go low tech & have a Kevlar tether attached from the launching slip? Cripes a 25’ 30,000lb Kevlar crane sling you can lift with one finger!

Modern military subs have been in service 100+ years & still fail now & again with usually tragic results. Going 3 or 4 times deeper what even the best military subs go is playing with fire if you ask me. I’m sure a lot of engineering went into this but I can’t see any practical way of testing it. The people that went down previously in this & survived the voyage should be thanking their lucky stars!

Hope they make up before they run out of oxygen or that it didn’t implode, either way it would be a horrible death. My heart goes out to the families.
Traveling 12000 meters under the sea without any safety precautions and signing a waiver which states that they know and agree to ride on a non certified submarine. Yes that’s a whole other level.

I will also add its Controlled by a cheap video game controller…..
 
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