Man of Honour
I'll wager that like for like humans still kill and maim more people than self drive cars.
Titanic submersible confirmed destroyed with loss of all five souls onboard.
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I'll wager that like for like humans still kill and maim more people than self drive cars.
Soldato
There seems to be a lot coming out about the CEO.
He has that weird attitude some very rich people have where they don't want to pay for anything.
Titan sub CEO dismissed safety warnings as 'baseless cries', emails show
Warnings over the sub's safety were dismissed by OceanGate's CEO, emails seen by the BBC show.
www.bbc.co.uk
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Bloody hell. Drunk or a vivid imagination?
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Bloody hell. Drunk or a vivid imagination?
Yep, he needs to keep out of the noonday sun.....
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Why are you posting in the thread then? Just ignore it sure.
People die everyday but this is a horrific way to go especially given a father and son were on board.
On a brighter note, babies are born every day also.
Yes, nothing brightens the day like a screaming fountain of **** and puke
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Spotted this on Reddit.
“Cameron says his associates and friends in the underwater world told him the evidence in the debris field showed Titan had dropped it’s weights to make an emergency ascent to the surface.
The crew knew the haul was in trouble and began an emergency ascent.”
If that was the case they would have known they were in grave danger and did they relay a message back to above they were coming back up.
“Cameron says his associates and friends in the underwater world told him the evidence in the debris field showed Titan had dropped it’s weights to make an emergency ascent to the surface.
The crew knew the haul was in trouble and began an emergency ascent.”
If that was the case they would have known they were in grave danger and did they relay a message back to above they were coming back up.
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They may only have had a few seconds between a possible sensor alarm and the instantaneous implosion. Or it could have been minutes, but we'll never know.
Man of Honour
I suspect when the hull is failing at that depth, it is only a matter of seconds really. Just like a ballon being popped. At least the folk didn’t suffer.
God help the families… No body to bury
If anything good can come out of this, then it’s to ensure it can never happen again. No more kamikaze subs and proper certification/regulation.
God help the families… No body to bury
If anything good can come out of this, then it’s to ensure it can never happen again. No more kamikaze subs and proper certification/regulation.
The actual implosion is isntantaneous.I suspect when the hull is failing at that depth, it is only a matter of seconds really. Just like a ballon being popped. At least the folk didn’t suffer.
God help the families… No body to bury
If anything good can come out of this, then it’s to ensure it can never happen again. No more kamikaze subs and proper certification/regulation.
The question is, did they have any kind of advanced warning, from the sensors we know were on the hull, that something was wrong, before the implosion event.
If they were trying to make an emergency ascent, which is the theory from Cameron and others, then they knew something was wrong.
I would say by the time they seen warnings, it was too late.
Not like an aircraft where you have an opportunity to make an informed decision (not always).
This would be so instant that the very warning system is not going to help when the hull is failing at that depth.
Will be interesting to see how the investigation goes.
Not like an aircraft where you have an opportunity to make an informed decision (not always).
This would be so instant that the very warning system is not going to help when the hull is failing at that depth.
Will be interesting to see how the investigation goes.
The actual operation of the vessel has not been made clear really. I read a few days ago that the vessel dropped it's weights at the bottom of the descent to become neutrally buoyant for the actual manoeuvring around the wreck. Im not sure if it then has to drop more weights for ascent.
So if this is true it could be the routine weight drop they are seeing?
If as reported the implosion event happened a 1h 45 into the trip, they hadn't reached the bottom/target site, as that took ~2h 30, iirc.
Man of Honour
James Cameron and his insiders within the inner circle already knew it had imploded at 1hr 45 into the dive, so would have been a few hundred metres from the sea floor. He also said that the support ship on the surface had received a signal from the Titan that it had dropped its weights at that time and this was a signal that it was going to ascend. It is not known if any other message follows that signalling. According to Cameron, dropping weight at that point and total loss of all comms can only mean one thing. And now that we know the US Navy detected an implosion on Sunday, all the dots connect.
He spoke about how it was sad to watch as the world's media was giving false hope to the families of those onboard for days on end.
He spoke about how it was sad to watch as the world's media was giving false hope to the families of those onboard for days on end.
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Man of Honour
It's an interesting point, did the USCG know of the implosion from Sunday/Monday or did they just follow process and await for the ROVs to find it and then determine? The did the whole "banging sounds "investigation which kept up the hope after all - All whilst the experts in deep sea diving knew it was a gonner since Sunday. I think they knew, which explains why the USCG guy left the conference as the questions from the press got more and more troublesome.
Also, The Onion being The Onion:
Also, The Onion being The Onion:
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Soldato
"Dive into anything"? Bit insensitive, no?
