Re: Anybody else keeping up with this missing submersible

that went down to view the Titanic?

Not very likely they'll find any survivors, but I guarantee you that this company will be out of business soon due to lawsuits. I wonder, too, if any of the governments involved (US, Canada, UK and France) will bill them for any of the SAR vessels and aircraft. LOTS of resources and millions of dollars being utilized for something so frivolous as a tourist trip to see the Titanic. Even if the crew/passengers are still alive, it doesn't look like there's anyway to get to them short of raising the entire thing, if that's possible on such short notice.

Another big question is how this will impact future efforts to go down to view the ship. Especially if this thing crashed ONTO the Titanic or got fouled in the wreckage somehow and is entangled with it.

I'd think they'll likely want to try to recover this vessel, or its remains, as soon as they can locate it - for multiple reasons.

It sucks for the families involved, but the more I've read about this thing, the crazier it seems that anyone would pay a quarter million dollars to ride on it. X-box controller? Outdoor camping lighting? No emergency beacon? There's lots of times that wanting to do something on a budget can be a good thing. But diving 2 miles beneath the ocean surface?? No. I want the best, most reliable technology and gear that exists before I'd even consider it.

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Jun 21, 2023, 12:42 PM

ironic in the fact that this vessel was boasted to have been constructed of the "best materials available, able to get to the depth of the Titanic with a comfortable safety margin." I doubt they are comfortable now, if they are still alive.

The Engineer in me could not resist doing a calculation. Atmospheric pressure is 14.696 psi, or 406.78 inches of water. The Titanic sits ~12,500 feet down. This is 150,000 inches. Doing the math, the pressure at that depth is 368.74 atmospheres, or in psi, it is 5,419 psi (pounds per square inch). That is the pressure that every square inch of the hull of that submersible is enduring right now, if it has not already been crushed.

That pressure is why a rescue mission is nearly impossible. Even if another submersible that was able to withstand the depth could be brought to the scene in time, it would not have the ability to bring the other one up in addition to itself. The only hope those people have is that they somehow could be rigged with a cable from another sub to the surface to bring them up, or somehow find a way to drop their ballast on their own. And, obviously, if they could do that, it would have already happened.

In all of this, the most unconscionable thing I find, is that evidently this submersible was not outfitted with a radio beacon? That seems like sheer lunacy. In ANY rescue situation, even if it had managed to surface after several hours lost, the ocean is HUGE. The chances of them coming up in an emergency right by their ship, to be visually spotted would be very slim.

It almost seems like the designers of this sub thought it was unsinkable, and thus did not have enough safety features on board. Does that sound familiar at all?

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Anybody else keeping up with this missing submersible

I heard that the passengers were required to sign releases

Perhaps the best way to not die in this situation...

Mayhem Bob woke up on the wrong

lol

Spoiler, I've seen Titanic.

Bad situation all the way around...

Re: Bad situation all the way around...

That's a LOT of cable. 12,000 feet is over 2 miles!