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I'd absolutely love to go down Deep
Titanic submersible confirmed destroyed with loss of all five souls onboard.
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I was wondering what size it would have been crushed down to if it has imploded - though not sure it would react like I'm imagining, but the pressures down there are staggering
A car crusher exerts about 2000 psi, at the depth of the Titanic it's 6000 psi
Some grisly reading here on the effects of a submarine getting crushed
When a submarine exceeds its crush depth and the crew is killed, are they squished flat? Do they die instantaneously due to the pressure?...
Answer (1 of 13): When a submarine “crushes”, it can happen in a variety of ways. In the case of the USS Scorpion, there were two hydrogen explosions in the battery well at 18:20 GMT (22 May, 1968) that created an internal overpressure of 150 - 200 psi. These explosions were not strong enough to...www.quora.com
Fun (?) fact - when Ballard found the wreck of the Titanic, it was as a favour from the US Navy that allowed him to borrow the sub used for searching after he dived on the wreck of the Scorpion and Thresher for them.
Instant deaths though.
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Just like Quake then, doesn't sound too bad.
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I'm going to have to Google the images now you've recommended not! Lol!
I'll do sky diving, I'll do my MTB stuff. But what I can't handle is death over a long period.
If you die from sky dive. It's gonna be seconds. Same if come off a mountain.
In a cave? You could be alive days just waiting to die. In this Dark, cold, lonely place. You might have some hope. But you know its probably a death sentence.
I'm not even claustrophobic. It's just there are too many things out of my control in situations like that.
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Reading between the lines here, they'll do well to even find this vessel, let alone recover it - assuming it hasn't just decompressed, at which point there will be no people to find.
People should be allowed to take risks, but this doesn't seem to have much in the way of fail-safe mechanisms...
People should be allowed to take risks, but this doesn't seem to have much in the way of fail-safe mechanisms...
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Yeah I stopped reading after learning their blood boiled instantly.
That would have been brutal even if it was instantaneous.
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I might be wrong in my understanding but Byford is different in that it was a release of high pressure into low pressure, thus an explosive release, whereas the low pressure in the sub vs the high pressure outside would just result in being crushed/imploded and not exploded ? As for results of the pressure release, I already posted those earlier in the thread
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TV reporter 'almost died' in submarine that got stuck in Titanic wreck
Former ABC science editor Michael Guillen revealed his own terrifying experience in 2000 when he became the first TV correspondent to get into a sub to visit the wreck.
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Clearly we need to send a 2nd sub down there to find out what happened.
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Hope this turns out ok even though the odds are stacked against it.
I have a low tolerance for risk, I don't even think I will fly again (maybe 30 years ago the last time) and I understand why ww2 fighter pilots took a handgun on missions for a quick way out
I have a low tolerance for risk, I don't even think I will fly again (maybe 30 years ago the last time) and I understand why ww2 fighter pilots took a handgun on missions for a quick way out
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Agreed - If we can't find a Boeing 777 in the Pacific ocean, what hope is there to finding a much smaller tin can in the Atlantic?
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The Pacific Ocean covers over half the planet - you can position a globe in such a way that you can't see anything BUT the Pacific.
We know where the sub dived, and what they were aiming for - knowing local currents would make the search area infinitely smaller than that of MH370, but I agree that the size of the wreckage will be absolutely tiny. The best hope will be that it landed reasonably close to it's target in the first place.
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I think that's a bit extreme considering the chance of dying in a modern aircraft that isn't being shot at.
I hope you don't drive or cross the road when out walking
Low risk tolerance, you should be embracing flying then.
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I think that's a bit extreme considering the chance of dying in a modern aircraft that isn't being shot at.
I hope you don't drive or cross the road when out walking
I'm surprised he even attempts to get out of bed...
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Titanic still claiming lives over 100 years later.
Flying is one of the safest forms of travel, do you ever even leave the house?
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Did you know every C in the words Pacific Ocean is pronounced differently.
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