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

mrk · 20 Jun 2023 at 01:44

[FnG]magnolia said:
In summary: everyone dies in very horrifying ways. Physics

Differential pressure is a hell of a thing along with anything deep sea related.

Anyone recall the bell incident? Man gets sucked through a 60cm hole - sideways :/

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Rroff · 20 Jun 2023 at 02:46

413x said:
No way they are going to get them out.

Anybody saying this stuff should be banned... That's ridiculous. What would life be with no risk? Especially when it's yours to choose!

Unfortunately this is a high risk situation and things can and do go wrong. Feel for those people. 96 hours must be horrendous. The experts probably know thier fate.

So tragic. But thems the risks. They would have been fully briefed. Though I accept it's one of those you never think it's gonna happen to You!

Never say never - nothing like that depth, not even remotely close only 30-40m, but there was that guy (Harrison Okene) found alive in a sunken ship 60 hours later when the salvage team went in.

[FnG]magnolia · 20 Jun 2023 at 03:01

mrk said:
Differential pressure is a hell of a thing along with anything deep sea related.

Anyone recall the bell incident? Man gets sucked through a 60cm hole - sideways :/

Byford Dolphin - Wikipedia

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I would ... watch/star in this movie.

Semple · 20 Jun 2023 at 03:10

Rroff said:
Never say never - nothing like that depth, not even remotely close only 30-40m, but there was that guy (Harrison Okene) found alive in a sunken ship 60 hours later when the salvage team went in.

There was also the guy in the north sea who survived after becoming detached from his tether.

Rroff · 20 Jun 2023 at 04:20

Dunno if there is any meaning to it (maybe just duty rotation) but US Coast Guard is flying into the area while the specialist surveying, etc. ships and aircraft seem to be pulling or have pulled out.

Priapus · 20 Jun 2023 at 05:04

Semple said:
There was also the guy in the north sea who survived after becoming detached from his tether.

I recall watching a program on that. That dude was incredibly lucky.

GIBURROWS · 20 Jun 2023 at 06:05

Energize said:
Since when has that ever been the policy of the UK police? People are arrested on a daily basis for smoking weed.

Not round my way they aren't.

CaptainRAVE · 20 Jun 2023 at 06:10

You couldn’t pay me to get into that.

Rroff · 20 Jun 2023 at 06:26

GIBURROWS said:
Not round my way they aren't.

I've never known anyone arrested for smoking it but apparently back in the 80s CID would mess with the dealers doing stuff like driving them a few miles out of town and making them walk back barefoot, etc., wouldn't get away with it these days.

EVH5150 · 20 Jun 2023 at 06:35

CaptainRAVE said:
You couldn’t pay me to get into that.

Same here, compared to other submersibles it looks very Heath Robinson.

Ayahuasca · 20 Jun 2023 at 06:50

They’ll look for it whether it’s near, far, wherever they are.

Dyson · 20 Jun 2023 at 07:08

Rroff said:
Dunno if there is any meaning to it (maybe just duty rotation) but US Coast Guard is flying into the area while the specialist surveying, etc. ships and aircraft seem to be pulling or have pulled out.

Probably just playing lip service due to the press attention

SpellowHouse · 20 Jun 2023 at 07:17

To me, the only thing that could have happened is a leak/implosion. Otherwise, there would be messages from them, or it would have surfaced. If it was an implosion, then, mercifully, death would have been very quick indeed. The pressure down there is a couple of tons per square inch. Even the tiniest failure and you are instantly dead.

john_smith · 20 Jun 2023 at 07:19

Has this guy been drafted in yet?

Nicola Bulley dive expert proud of work despite removal 'from NCA expert list’

Peter Faulding, the CEO of private underwater search and recovery company Specialist Group International, has in a Facebook post asked the public "not to speculate or pass blame" in Nicola Bulley's case

www.mirror.co.uk

CaptainRAVE · 20 Jun 2023 at 07:22

Needle in a haystack comes to mind. Must be terrifying if they’re still alive in there. You’d think it would have some kind of powerful tracking system, but then the whole thing doesn’t look all that high tech.

ThundyCat · 20 Jun 2023 at 07:22

The sub can dive to 4000m, the wreck is 3800m down. Crazily close to it's limits.

Surely it must have some type of transponder.

Feek · 20 Jun 2023 at 07:37

ThundyCat said:
Surely it must have some type of transponder

RF really struggles to penetrate through water. At that depth, no radio will get through.

CaptainRAVE · 20 Jun 2023 at 07:39

Just saw the quote from the journalist who went on there ‘you steer this sub with an Xbox controller, some of the ballast is abandoned construction pipes’. He doesn’t seem to be wrong looking at it. Plus no escape pod. It’s like this company have just thrown a huge price tag to attract some with too much money, who as usual thinks, it’s really expensive, it must be good.

200sols · 20 Jun 2023 at 07:42

CaptainRAVE said:
Just saw the quote from the journalist who went on there ‘you steer this sub with an Xbox controller, some of the ballast is abandoned construction pipes’. He doesn’t seem to be wrong looking at it. Plus no escape pod. It’s like this company have just thrown a huge price tag to attract some with too much money, who as usual thinks, it’s really expensive, it must be good.

Simple design doesn't mean it isn't good.

jpaul · 20 Jun 2023 at 07:43

you abandon the ballast to resurface ? or, they have buoyancy tanks like a sub to which you could consecrate vital air ?

... a transponder you could release too the surface , r4 was just saying they get sealed in so would have to wait for help even if it surfaced