Titanic submersible confirmed destroyed with loss of all five souls onboard.

[Hades]

News conferen on BBC news in 5

That can't be good.

 

[PlacidCasual]

I'm not overly familiar with the systems they use but the Poseidons can locate a submarine down 100s of metres just from someone walking clumsily and can detect, but not accurately locate, even down to 1000s of metres.

I can only guess that is magnetic anomaly detection of something that is 1000's tonnes of steel. This sub is mostly glass fibre from the news reports I've heard.

 

[FlapR]

That can't be good.

Will probably be the coast guard bloke saying they're doing everything they can and then answering more stupid questions from the press.

 

[Pigeon_Killer]

Guy just speaking about his friend couldn't have been more blunt, he thinks they had a leak, it imploded immediately and they're all dead.

 

[mysticsniper]

Will probably be the coast guard bloke saying they're doing everything they can and then answering more stupid questions from the press.

Or they're calling off the search

 

[CaptainRAVE]

That can't be good.

Thinking the same.

Or they're calling off the search

Seems a bit soon for that?

 

[FlapR]

Or they're calling off the search

They won't do that, they'll still try and recover what they can even if they're dead.

 

[RockLobster]

Watch Live: Missing Titanic submarine update from U.S. Coast Guard

As U.S. and Canadian crews continued to search Wednesday for a missing submersible that may have only a day's supply of oxygen left, more information was eme...

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[NickK]

Thinking the same.

Seems a bit soon for that?

20 hours of o2 supposedly.. so their best option is to drop the French ROV over and attach a line unless it's stuck somewhere in the middle of the water column.

 

[VaderDSL]

20 hours of o2 supposedly.. so their best option is to drop the French ROV over and attach a line unless it's stuck somewhere in the middle of the water column.

I thought they already had the French ROV on site, but it's still several hours away, so presumably they haven't been able to get down to the depths they need to search yet?

Edit : Sounds like there are already other ROVs searching, not sure to what depth though.

 

[mcast123]

Will probably be the coast guard bloke saying they're doing everything they can and then answering more stupid questions from the press.

lol you nailed it.

 

[200sols]

Basically no update..

 

[mrk]

At this point if they do find it, nobody will be alive as there's 10-20 hours of air left. It is going to be recovery after tonight, not rescue...

 

[adam cool dude]

Basically no update..

I know technology is good now but it took 74 years to find the titanic. I took our government 3 weeks to find a dead body in a river. The sea deserves some respect really but people will never learn.

 

[Screeeech]

Sounds like the report of the 30 minute intervals wasn't accurate, I imagine the press made that up for clicks...

 

[Minusorange]

This isn't a movie so they'll probably find them in a few days when it's too late for anybody to be alive

 

[200sols]

This isn't a movie so they'll probably find them in a few days when it's too late for anybody to be alive

I think they'll be lucky to find it at all.

 

[cu3ed]

The fact a top secret industry that spends $800billion a year didn't design their own controller tells you all you need to know about a) how good modern game controllers actually are and b) the cost to achieve a similar result. Sure there's no lives directly on the line for US drone pilots but equally the US air force aren't going to want drones in enemy hands and especially not because of something as stupid as a controller problem.

As I said, there's lots of serious safety issues to lambast the company for but using a controller isn't one of them.

Those drones you see with controller are tiny small recon drones...the full size missile ones use full sim outfits privately developed
Have you even seen the mammoth difference?

 

[mrk]

Can you imagine if one of them in there had to do a nervous poo and unleash all hell? It's bad enough when someone in the office rips wind and it stinks :S

 

[throwaway4372]

Presumably you don't have a curry beforehand.