But then who determines what is thrill seeking????
Hiking in the woods, boating, there are reasonably safe activities that end up in disaster and Search and rescue is required.
Like hiking on trail is ok but if you go off trail you are in the hook?
Titanic Submersible
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Hiking in the woods, boating, there are reasonably safe activities that end up in disaster and Search and rescue is required.
Like hiking on trail is ok but if you go off trail you are in the hook?
From my understanding they don’t look at the ship through a window. They look at it through a monitor. Might as well just stay on a ship above water and send down a camera.
Lack of Nurses with the proper skill sets to safely look after patients
Amazing how we pay for emergency services with our taxes and now folks want to strip folks from getting help from the very same emergency services we pay for. I guess the next time one gets into a car accident, pay for it out of pocket for fire, police and ambulance. Hey, if you didn't get into the car and drive, it wouldn't have happened. LOL
I am able to distinguish between hiking and descending to 12,500 feet in an un-certified craft.
It wasn't required to be certified. Of course, it would've been a good idea to.
Pressure tested? It made 3 previous trips to the Titanic.
As for the controller, they had a couple spares onboard. It's unlikely the controller caused the loss of communication with the mothership, 1:45 minutes into the dive.
If they were stuck at that depth and they lost power, they probably died of hypothermia.
If it "sprung a leak" they either drowned or it imploded.
My guess is they never find it. Proverbial, needle in a haystack.
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Interesting thread. Lots of POV's. Also, very civil (by TERB standards).
I think they are done. If nothing else the lack of oxygen would have been the final straw. The vehicle is probably intact or largely intact because no debris (that we know of) has floated up to the surface.
R.I.P.
I think they are done. If nothing else the lack of oxygen would have been the final straw. The vehicle is probably intact or largely intact because no debris (that we know of) has floated up to the surface.
R.I.P.
Anyone seen the movie The Core.
This reminds me of the ending. When the vessel comes up out of the earths core and it a tube on the bottom of the ocean with no power.
There is one specific shot of it on the ocean floor that sticks in my mind when I think of this.
I can’t even imagine what is going through their heads knowing the end is coming.
Implosion would be the best.
This reminds me of the ending. When the vessel comes up out of the earths core and it a tube on the bottom of the ocean with no power.
There is one specific shot of it on the ocean floor that sticks in my mind when I think of this.
I can’t even imagine what is going through their heads knowing the end is coming.
Implosion would be the best.
So if the sub has imploded, would it disintegrate into a few million pieces, or would it just flatten out like a pancake and sit at the bottom of the ocean??
Any engineers or physicists on Terb who would know this??
I'm not intelligent enough to figure all this out
Any engineers or physicists on Terb who would know this??
I'm not intelligent enough to figure all this out
The U.S. Coast Guard said Thursday searchers discovered a “debris field” near the Titanic while trying to find a missing submersible and its crew in the North Atlantic.
I think there are levels as to what is determined as thrill seeking...mountain climbing is high risk in itself but conquering K2 would be even higher....
their survival rate goes down by the second...I think this is no longer a search and rescue...more like recovery...
Except it's shell is made of carbon fiber and titanium, which unlike steel is more brittle. So I wouldn't think it would buckle like steel if it imploded. A catastrophic failure would likely result in it breaking into little pieces.
The passengers probably ended up being fish food.
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An expert commenting on the latest news, asked if the debris field they found was new or the one left by the titanic. Apparently there's a significant amount of debris around the ship including shoes, medical cabinets etc.
"The Titanic lies in two parts, with the bow and the stern separated by about 800m (2,600ft). A huge debris field surrounds the broken vessel."
