Wont matter much if they do hold him responsible, as he is one of the people in the sub, so theres a chance that he is already dead/will die along with the others who took the trip.
Titanic submersible confirmed destroyed with loss of all five souls onboard.
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They also took their son down with them
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Careful. People still think this is good enough. I mean the number of times the waiver is reported to say ‘death’…
Soldato
They’ve conducted surface search as the sub has seven different ways to bring it to the surface.
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Rich idiots doing dumb stuff in unlicensed vehicles. Think of all the homless people that could be housed for the cost of this operation, among many other things.
Commissario
I believe they've been using coastguard rescue aircraft and anti sub aircraft to do searches on the surface, as well as help from other ships in the area and presumably any satellite imaging that is available (probably not much given the location)/
I'd have hoped that they'd have had at least a couple of independent RF transponders fitted to the hull that can ping if it's on the surface.
I tend to think that everytime I see a footballer bought for £100m
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
The only thing that article doesn't mention is a slow leak. This would allow the pressure to increase inside the vessel as the leak slowly filled the vessel with water. It would also simultaneously reduce the buoyancy potential of the vessel. At the equivalent of 60ish metres internal pressure, 21% oxygen in air becomes toxic so the crew would start to convulse and die that way. Then the vessel continues to fill slowly and sinks to the bottom in one piece.
Caporegime
Any kind of weakness in that depth would create an immediate implosion. There is no such a thing as slow leak under such pressure.
Soldato
They call these people entrepreneurs.
Maybe. The vessel is quite small, and made of carbon fibre I believe, not metal? It could be possible for it to fail in a way that doesn't immediately implode it. Even if it only takes a few minutes to fill, you'd know it was coming.
Soldato
Watching Roger Mallinson talking about his Pisces III experience shows how unlikely it is they will rescue these people. It took 84 hours to get them up and they sank straight down 1575ft from the ship while docking so they knew exactly where they were.
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GPS would be useless - the satellite signals wouldn't reach underwater and there's no way for it to transmit the location to anything else either. That's unless it can actually get to the surface but by that point there's probably better ways to get yourself noticed.
Ah yes, NASA, that company famed for its deep sea exploration research.
Not sure what backout plan people are expecting, rescue at these depths is all but impossible.
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Anyone remember that mad video of a Nigerian man who had been trapped in a sunken ship for several days ? Still one of the craziest videos I’ve ever seen.
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Soldato
Well they do design rockets to keep pressurized. So they know a thing or two about that.
Only window is where the toilet is
miserable place to be in
This submersible takes passengers to The Titanic wreck
EDITOR'S NOTE: This story was published one year prior to the sinking of TitanIt can take five passengers to The Titanic on the ocean floor, you can pilot it...youtu.be
Not if they paid me £200k would I get into that toy and go to the bottom of the ocean.
No instruments and a games controller to navigate!
More money than sense!
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Soldato
I don’t think people should get too hung up about the game controller. It’s modified and does the job. What more do you want?