Iceberg, Dead Ahead! Tourist subarine diving to the Titanic reported missing

[Rob]

[Onebadcad]

Originally Posted by Mike Mercury

latest:

I gotta think that somehow Trump will be indicted on this,,,

[Mike Mercury]

Originally Posted by Onebadcad

I gotta think that somehow Trump will be indicted on this,,,

or their death certificates will say they died from






Covid.

[Onebadcad]

Originally Posted by Mike Mercury

or their death certificates will say they died from






Covid.

I never knew there was a strain called 'Underwater Covid', you learn something new everyday.

[Bill]

US Coast Guard is managing the on scene response. They've got ships, planes with radar that have dropped sonar buoys, and they've got a pipe laying ship with a ROV on scene, with more ROV's being mustered to get to the area. Sounds like about a little less than 2 days of air left, assuming the hull is intact.

Canadian Coast Guard also sending cutters in, but I suspect it will be too late to help potential survivors.

I don't know why they don't bring in the US team that blew up the Nordstream II pipeline and get those guys involved in the rescue.

[Onebadcad]

Originally Posted by bill_daniels

US Coast Guard is managing the on scene response. They've got ships, planes with radar that have dropped sonar buoys, and they've got a pipe laying ship with a ROV on scene, with more ROV's being mustered to get to the area. Sounds like about a little less than 2 days of air left, assuming the hull is intact.

Canadian Coast Guard also sending cutters in, but I suspect it will be too late to help potential survivors.

I don't know why they don't bring in the US team that blew up the Nordstream II pipeline and get those guys involved in the rescue.

Even if they find it, the resources in place to raise it to the surface may not be there in time.

[Frankie the Fink]

They would have been safer in a burning Tesla....

[GTOguy]

I equate a deep dive like this with the same danger level of going into outer space. Quite a rush, mainly because there is no margin for error. One thing goes wrong, and it's game over. No thanks.

[Mike Mercury]

since the communications cut off before they even reached the ships depth... I think they are toast.

sad.

[LATB]

Originally Posted by GTOguy

I equate a deep dive like this with the same danger level of going into outer space. Quite a rush, mainly because there is no margin for error. One thing goes wrong, and it's game over. No thanks.

I will keep my feet on solid ground.

[Bill]

Originally Posted by GTOguy

I equate a deep dive like this with the same danger level of going into outer space. Quite a rush, mainly because there is no margin for error. One thing goes wrong, and it's game over. No thanks.

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[Mike Mercury]

interesting:

https://www.foxbusiness.com/technolo...ety-complaints

[Giraffe (He/Him)]

Bummer, but my heart will go on.

[John Wiz]

Originally Posted by GTOguy

I equate a deep dive like this with the same danger level of going into outer space. Quite a rush, mainly because there is no margin for error. One thing goes wrong, and it's game over. No thanks.

Funny you should mention margins.... Titanic is at 12,500 ft and the sub had a max depth of 13,120 feet. I would never consider a dive like that with a 620ft safety margin at that depth.

[Mike Mercury]

more:

Submersible scientist fears OceanGate may have suffered catastrophic implosion: 'Deeply worrisome'

'Indications are that something went critical,' says deep-water vehicle researcher Steve Somlyody

A career scientist in the submersible vehicle industry fears the worst — a catastrophic implosion — regarding the fate of the OceanGate, he indicated in an interview on Monday evening.

"For there not to be any communications or any movement, indications are that something went critical," Steve Somlyody, a Florida-based senior research scientist who has 20 years of experience in submersible design and operation, told Fox News Digital.

"The pressure down there at 4,000 meters is pretty high. About 5,800 PSI at Titanic depth. If they had any kind of leak, it would lead to an implosion and it would happen in an instant, very immediately. You wouldn’t even know it happened."

Somlyody has worked for Bluefin Robotics and now scientific research firm Battelle.

The researcher helped build the unmanned underwater vehicle used in the search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH 370 that disappeared mysteriously over the Indian Ocean in 2014.

Rescue options are limited, he said.

"If they had any kind of leak, it would lead to an implosion and it would happen in an instant."

The HOV Alvin out of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts and the U.S. Navy's deep-submergence research vehicle (DSRV), based on the West Coast, are, he believes, the only vehicles in the United States capable of reaching Titanic depth.

Given the lack of time — just 72 hours of oxygen in the vehicle according to multiple reports — the Navy's DSRV, and possibly the HOV Alvin, would have to be flown close to the site, but also first readied for the mission, which could take untold hours, he said.

Vehicles such as the OceanGate would have multiple redundancies for both life support and for reaching the surface in an emergency. Among these redundancies would be several methods to lighten the vehicle and make it buoyant, said the submersibles expert.

"If they were to float up from that depth, it would take a significant amount of time, depending upon how much weight they were able to shed and how buoyant they become. Ten hours to rise to the surface would not be unreasonable.

https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/su...cbo=v2-3zNm1Vc

[MadInNc]

Originally Posted by Mike Mercury

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https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/su...cbo=v2-3zNm1Vc

I’ve read a lot of crap being controller was from X-box, ballast tanks from construction site, no scan but sound for weld test….. blah, blah, blah

One thing for sure - law suit in 2018 based on hired independent quality inspector stating report should be posted to customers. Settled out of court with no release of court report.

I’m not posting links, y’all will find them of ya search



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[Torqaholic]

Originally Posted by bill_daniels

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I assume the sub didn't have a bathroom on board? ...

Read somewhere they had a water bottle for that.

[LATB]

I guess they sleep with the fish.

[Bill]

Are there actually fish 2 1/2 miles below the water line? Imagine the pressure they'd have to withstand. Plus there is literally no light down that far.