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Just pipes for weight AFAIK.
Titanic submersible confirmed destroyed with loss of all five souls onboard.
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Just pipes for weight AFAIK.
Cheaper and less likely to argue when they see something risky.
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I aint getting in no Sub.
The internal light was literally a battery baton from Camper World too.
OceanGate CEO reveals Titanic submersible uses ‘game controller’ in resurfaced clip
The OceanGate CEO believed to be missing on board a Titanic exploration submersible described how the vessel was “built with camping” parts and operated with a “game controller” in a resurfaced video. In November 2022, Stockton Rush told CBS the Titan craft was built with “off-the-shelf...
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not saying you are wrong and just playing devils advocate really but............ technically isnt this good training anyway, i mean regardless of this one, other subs go down as well - which are considered legitimate - and they could get into trouble as well... so either way i imagine the troops have to train. This is just training that actucally matters rather than doing dummy runs.
or am i wrong and they dont train for deep rescues and its just done off the cuff?
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I know they have to sign waivers before the trip, but doesn’t events such as these somewhat invalidate those waivers and bear responsibility for deaths upon the company?
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Navy submarines are built with rescue in mind - there is a way to dock with them, it would be a quite diffeent scenario. I think this is much deeper than any mil sub rescue could be attempted.
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wavers are all well and good, however surely there is still an expectation of general quality controls. if the rumours of build quality are true and if it want fit for purpose (not talking about the controllers, personally i think that is the least of its problems by the sound of it then i doubt the wavers mean much.
however that said, if it was commonly known how dodgy it was then am not sure why it was not shut down before now..........
TLDR i agree
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The internal light was literally a battery baton from Camper World too.
OceanGate CEO reveals Titanic submersible uses ‘game controller’ in resurfaced clip
The OceanGate CEO believed to be missing on board a Titanic exploration submersible described how the vessel was “built with camping” parts and operated with a “game controller” in a resurfaced video. In November 2022, Stockton Rush told CBS the Titan craft was built with “off-the-shelf...
He almost seems proud of it. I can completely understand when outfitting your canal boat but for something like this it is just madness.
I guess the issue is all these things are used in international waters so the laws for such subs must be in proper grey area territory. I also cannot understand how some people so rich didn't do their due diligence with it. It is not like you or I they could have just hired someone to do it for them. It is most likely one of the most dangerous things you could actually do on this planet and even one of them took his son down with him!
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Sends shivers down your spine imagining them all doing that in a desperate attempt to be rescued
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its a good point but presumably it had to come into dry dock after dives to be checked out etc. it could have been impounded then if it was commonly known to be that bad..... or is this just captain hindsites coming out now and admitting all this stuff after the fact, when they should have done it before?.
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If they are alive is there even anything remotely possible to get it back up if they manage to find it in time?
Morbidly crossed my mind if you was on that sub would you try and kill each other to save oxygen for yourself?
Morbidly crossed my mind if you was on that sub would you try and kill each other to save oxygen for yourself?
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This one gave me the spookiesSends shivers down your spine imagining them all doing that in a desperate attempt to be rescued
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i imagine the oxygen expended in the struggle would mean it would be false economy. also tough one to explain if you are rescued.
From what’s been said, if they’re on the bottom (which it sounds like they might be, if they’re banging on the hull every 30 mins).
It’ll need one of the remote subs to physically find it, free it, grab hold of it or attach a line to it, so it can be winched to the surface…
To say it’s a long shot, feels like an understatement… I can imagine the stricken sub being mixed up amongst the wreck of the titanic, so finding it might be a nightmare…
I don't imagine so. If it didn't implode and only lost power then it's probably at the bottom of the seabed. I'm not sure if ROVs will be strong enough to raise it to the surface, I also can't imagine many ships will have a long enough winch for it either - in the area. If time was on their side then that wouldn't be too much of a problem.
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