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

[Mesai]

I mean outside of idiots going down to the bottom of the ocean in what genuinely looks like a soup can, what other reason is there a need for tech? The real wakeup call should be how this kind of thing is even allowed to happen to start with.

Yea, the thing screams of amateur hour. If they took half as much care as NASA did sending an unmanned drone to Mars, they’d already be found.

We’re talking about human lives and they couldn’t be asked to even put a radio/transmitter on it, with at least 2 redundancies?

 

[GGizmo]

I mean outside of idiots going down to the bottom of the ocean in what genuinely looks like a soup can, what other reason is there a need for tech? The real wakeup call should be how this kind of thing is even allowed to happen to start with.

After ww2 I think there would have been a reasonable expectation that allied countries would create a technology to counter the German u-boat submarines, especially because they sank many of our ships.

 

[GGizmo]

Wake up call for what? In case Pacific Rim becomes reality and a Kaiju comes up from the cracks in the depth of the ocean?

That enemy submarines can still go undetected.

 

[RxR]

I read on the news today that subs dont go below 500m. Dunno if its true.

 

[uscool]

Wake up call for what? In case Pacific Rim becomes reality and a Kaiju comes up from the cracks in the depth of the ocean?

think we are better prepared to go into space than the far depths of the ocean techology just hasnt advanced enough

 

[Raymond Lin]

That enemy submarines can still go undetected.

Huh?

How do you get saving people from ocean floor to moving the goal post to enemy submarines from the Germans 80 years ago?

 

[Raymond Lin]

That enemy submarines can still go undetected.

Planes go undetected too...

 

[Ayahuasca]

That enemy submarines can still go undetected.

Unless the Russian's and Chinese have invented some new technology to power their subs, that's incredibly unlikely.

We're talking about a tiny submersible here that's lost power at a depth way lower than enemy submarines operate.

 

[beachBOYken]

I read on the news today that subs dont go below 500m.

Yep its something between 500-1000m I think, so not sure why people are bringing this into the conversation, nothing operates at the depths of the titanic in an enemy capacity at least.

 

[StriderX]

That enemy submarines can still go undetected.

Anything larger than these submersibles is not happening and the machinery required to travel thousands of miles across the ocean floor would probably take years as I doubt any conventional engine is going to function. Sure maybe there's a possibility of building a drone around a bomb but it has to surface to do anything and that would take hours.

 

[Felon]

This shows how weak our technology is under water.

This should be a wake up call.

lol

Wake up call for what exactly? The most inhospitable environment on our planet, it an absolute nightmare to rescue people from?

 

[Freakbro]

You win the award for the dumbest comment in thread.

That'll go well alongside all his other awards

 

[Minstadave]

This whole rescue is a bit of an embarrassment for the US. If they can't find something that wants to be found what hope would they have from an adversary. The Co-founder and Chairman, Horizon Maritime Services said they had the best equipment in the world yesterday. Seems like a bunch of bs peddlers now.

This shows how weak our technology is under water.

This should be a wake up call.

Never change GD

 

[beachBOYken]

That'll go well alongside all his other awards

His first mistake was believing anything from GBnews.

 

[sidimmu]

That enemy submarines can still go undetected.

Was this on the daily mail or GB news? cant find it myself, need a real good laugh.

 

[Building Candy]

...... and they couldn’t be asked to even put a radio/transmitter on it, .............

a radio? pretty sure radio waves dont travel through water

 

[lookitsjonno]

This shows how weak our technology is under water.

This should be a wake up call.

They signed waivers, they basically accepted there was a chance of injury or death. Realistically it's nobody else's problem except their own

 

[MooMoo444]

I think a lot of folks are underestimating undersea currents also. They could be hundreds of miles away from where they were by now. For example when MH370 went missing, debris was eventually found all the way as far as Africa.

I mean MH370 itself is a fine example of how hard it is to find something in the ocean. Years on they still haven't found the site.

 

[200sols]

assume it would be very near the titanic and thus not too hard to find.

Visibility is poor, they can barely see the titanic without being right on top of it.

 

[SpellowHouse]

This shows how weak our technology is under water.

This should be a wake up call.

When has the government ever actioned anything that's obvious? It's obvious that if there is a war our power lines to Europe would be cut by subs, and we would have no backup. Kinda important, but do they do anything? No. So sure as heck they aren't going to change anything with a missing sub.