Is this thing tethered to a ship or anything? If not... good luck finding it.
Titanic tourist sub goes missing
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Counterpoint is why would that cause them to lose communication?
Well, it’s a homemade sub run by a single button and an Xbox controller. I guess I have my doubts the communication system is first-rate.
But you’re right…I suspect they’re probably already gone.
Yeah, they had a 13,000 foot rope tied to it so they could bring it back up.
Dude. A 2 and a half mile rope would be like a goddamned sail
Just do a little math or drop a string in a drink and put a fan on it. Good god
It's launched from a ship but not tethered to it.
A big issue in finding it is the sonar not being able to differentiate between Titanic wreakage and the sub.
only math I'm doing is counting this stack of $250k those schmucks paid. NO REFUNDS
They’re idiots for getting in this death machine
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Rear Adm. John Mauger of the U.S. Coast Guard said Tuesday morning that an area “about the size of Connecticut” had been searched so far. In an interview with “Good Morning America,” he said search capabilities were also being expanded to be able to look under the water.
Call me crazy, but I would have looked under the water from the very beginning. 🤷♂️
Call me crazy, but I would have looked under the water from the very beginning. 🤷♂️
I am guessing that they are bringing in remote submersibles to look with cameras. I think they have mostly been looking with sonar.
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Yeah, I was making a joke. You crack me up Hoosier
If there was a breach, it would be more like a water jet that would cut you in half if you got in the way. Then the rest sit while the sub fills up...and not a thing they can do about it. A window goes and everybody is dead in seconds. Small breach...longer wait.
had to cut costs to pay for ps2 controller
If they don't find it with sonar, they ain't finding it.
Hopefully, someone on the sub remembered to pack a ball peen hammer, because that'd be the easiest way to find it if it lost power entirely.
Even if they found it down there and even if the people were still alive, they would have to lift the sub and there's no ship with that capability anywhere close enough to get there in time. Their only hope is they surfaced but can't communicate. They're trapped in that sub until someone opens it from the outside.
Could you imagine taking a shot to the nuts from laser water of that pressure?
I think the discussion we were having was if a small breach could lead to the sub just slowly filling with water til everyone drowns or if such a breach would automatically lead to full on implosion.
Not necessarily
First of all it's hard to tell the difference between wreckage and the sub. Secondly I think most people tend to have an over confidence in the abilities of sonar anyway. The thing that got me was the guy who found the titanic in 1985 found it by dragging a camera along and looking for it visually basically finding small objects at first and letting that lead him to what is left of the hull. . . the reason this is important is because another ship with sonar had already been over the area and didn't detect it.
Granted sonar technology has probably improved since this happened but the story still makes me think you can't really trust that if it's there, sonar will see it.
I was thinking it **might** be possible they could use a remote submersible to attach a long cable to a part of the sub and pull it to the surface.
But if that isn't possible then I would say a rescue is damn near impossible at those depths.
I heard that the deepest underwater rescue to ever be successful was at 2000 ft. This is over 12,000 feet.
I can't imagine it would implode like that aluminum can but a small breach at that pressure would become a really big leak very quickly. My guess would be the section with the leak could cave into the body of the craft. I saw speculation that it might have also been an electrical fire which would have taken out communication and shortly after that, the crew and passengers.
There's no good way to die down there other than quickly so I hope they got that.
The Navy has an ROV and ship that they used to recover that F35 that went down in the South China Sea. It was at 12,400 feet, The ROV attached rigging and then the ship hauled it up.
I don’t think we should rule out tiger sharks just yet. Those fvckers have been attacking everyone lately.
I didn't even trust this with my dynasty teams.
Not that I'm saying their operations were completely by the book, but to be entirely fair a lot of controls on US Navy subs these days are modeled after game controllers because the Navy determined that would be the easiest way for young sailors to learn the controls.
US Navy submarines are getting Xbox 360 controllers to control their periscopes
But not for gaming
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Not that I'm saying their operations were completely by the book, but to be entirely fair a lot of controls on US Navy subs these days are modeled after game controllers because the Navy determined that would be the easiest way for young sailors to learn the controls.
US Navy submarines are getting Xbox 360 controllers to control their periscopes
But not for gaming
That makes sense, I'm just making a joke about the crappy off brand controllers from my youth like Mad Catz.
If they made it down to the Titanic depth (12000 feet) the pressure is x350 that of what we experience on land. There is no such thing as a 'small breach'...
Wouldn't it be something if the capsule got lodged in the long staircase Jack greeted Rose in?
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