Yes, there'll still be some oxygen just not enough to support human life.
Titanic submersible confirmed destroyed with loss of all five souls onboard.
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Ever since someone mentioned about them potentially needing a number 2, I can't get it out my headMust be so bad.
Yeah, the smell of **** and hallucinating from complete darkness. Not a good way to get your death DMT trip.
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Pooing into a bag is tricky at the best of times but doing it in pitch blackness, in a small tube and not getting it on your fingers whilst trying to zip the bag back up must be a feat in itself.
Yep. It's in international waters so I'm not sure why we would need permission to send our own ship. I doubt it would have made a material difference but we still should have tried.
Reminds me of that movie Untraceable.
Aren't they British citizen who are trapped in the sub too?
The only slight, and I mean incomprehensibly slight, positive thing about that is at least the lad had his father there with him.
Outside of the utter horror that you're going to die, I'd be mortified of the pain I'd be putting my father through my passing (and stupid passing, at that), but they have each other.
However I'm sure there's come a point into this tragedy where even that doesn't provide a sliver of comfort.
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Yes I believe so.
I think the most likely outcome is probably that the the uncertified and not properly tested pressure hull design previously only used for single-use deep sea dives failed and the crew unfortunately died days ago.
Floating around at the surface undetected seems fairly possible too, especially as it's apparently quite hard to spot, and they don't have any reliable communication systems (seriously, would it have been hard to put some kind of radio & sonar beacon or something on the sub given it has been lost on the surface for hours at a time on previous occasions?)
Something else going wrong at depth like being caught on debris, all the ballast release systems failing to operate due to loss of power or something, an internal fire caused by one of their 'camping world' bits of electronics etc seems very possible too.
Either way I don't see any hope for them at this point. Given the standard of engineering elsewhere on the sub 96 hours life support is probably the upper end anyway... so, RIP I guess.
If the 30-minute banging noises had been convincing I'd have thought we'd have heard a lot more about them by now, given how many more 30 minite periods there have been since first detected.
Floating around at the surface undetected seems fairly possible too, especially as it's apparently quite hard to spot, and they don't have any reliable communication systems (seriously, would it have been hard to put some kind of radio & sonar beacon or something on the sub given it has been lost on the surface for hours at a time on previous occasions?)
Something else going wrong at depth like being caught on debris, all the ballast release systems failing to operate due to loss of power or something, an internal fire caused by one of their 'camping world' bits of electronics etc seems very possible too.
Either way I don't see any hope for them at this point. Given the standard of engineering elsewhere on the sub 96 hours life support is probably the upper end anyway... so, RIP I guess.
If the 30-minute banging noises had been convincing I'd have thought we'd have heard a lot more about them by now, given how many more 30 minite periods there have been since first detected.
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Why?
It mostly just goes up or down depending on ballasts and requires connection to the launch vessel for directions for small maneuvering thrusters which... was lost.
A square hole and a round peg?
Three, yes.
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It had a camping world battery powered light fitted, so all is good on that front.
Should be straight there to rescue its own citizen. Why on earth do we need permission.
Wasn't there both the CEO and a pilot? So two people who should be able to pilot it.
On the flip side, dad has to deal with the fact he essentially sentenced his 19 y/o son to a drawn out unpleasant death in a metal "coffin"...
Assuming they don't by some miracle find & rescue them within the next couple of hours, then sudden implosion is still sadly the "best case scenario"
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Good question and even more so if it's international waters.
We discussed this in a risk meeting this morning and someone immediately said, an Acoustic transducer, battery powered, outside the pressurised part that effectively produces the same sound signature as someone 'banging' at regular intervals, maybe even knocking out morse code for depth information might have been a good idea..
You pretty much only have audio to do this, RF is hopeless in salt water, doubly so at 3800M