Tourist submersible missing on visit to Titanic

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Anonymous wrote:To be fair, how will we ever know what caused the Titanic to sink if we don’t study the site of the wreckage?

Are you kidding? What caused it to sink is not obscure. It hit an iceberg and filled with water. This is not, um, rocket science.

So, you think there is nothing to be learned from a tragedy like that? No design flaws? Or engineering mistakes? To prevent it from happening again?

How many ships have sunk in a similar manner to the Titanic in the past 111 years?

Do you think they should stop looking for the missing Malaysian plane?

[Anonymous]

What were those banging sounds ?? Was hoping it was them.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:To be fair, how will we ever know what caused the Titanic to sink if we don’t study the site of the wreckage?

Are you kidding? What caused it to sink is not obscure. It hit an iceberg and filled with water. This is not, um, rocket science.

So, you think there is nothing to be learned from a tragedy like that? No design flaws? Or engineering mistakes? To prevent it from happening again?

Those lessons were already learned. The only thing you can learn now is maybe the effect of the ocean on a decomposing ship. But even then everyone knows what the outcome will be.

Meh, until Titanic was found they didn't know for sure if it had broken in half or not. Everything wasn't already known.

By the time the wreck was found and explored, there was nothing to be learned that would improve safety now. Perhaps had more been known in the years immediately following the sinking, that info might have been useful then but things have progressed beyond the point it would matter now.

[Anonymous]

4000 tons per square meters of pressure. Good god.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:To be fair, how will we ever know what caused the Titanic to sink if we don’t study the site of the wreckage?

Are you kidding? What caused it to sink is not obscure. It hit an iceberg and filled with water. This is not, um, rocket science.

So, you think there is nothing to be learned from a tragedy like that? No design flaws? Or engineering mistakes? To prevent it from happening again?

Those lessons were already learned. The only thing you can learn now is maybe the effect of the ocean on a decomposing ship. But even then everyone knows what the outcome will be.

Meh, until Titanic was found they didn't know for sure if it had broken in half or not. Everything wasn't already known.

By the time the wreck was found and explored, there was nothing to be learned that would improve safety now. Perhaps had more been known in the years immediately following the sinking, that info might have been useful then but things have progressed beyond the point it would matter now.

If others are interested in the how's and why's, what does it matter? They aren't asking you to fund it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What were those banging sounds ?? Was hoping it was them.

I was wondering this too? What was the banging/pinging?

[Anonymous]

The debris discovered within the search area near the Titanic wreck is from the missing submersible, the US Coast Guard has confirmed. They found the tailcone.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To be fair, how will we ever know what caused the Titanic to sink if we don’t study the site of the wreckage?

Are you kidding? What caused it to sink is not obscure. It hit an iceberg and filled with water. This is not, um, rocket science.

So, you think there is nothing to be learned from a tragedy like that? No design flaws? Or engineering mistakes? To prevent it from happening again?

How many ships have sunk in a similar manner to the Titanic in the past 111 years?

After Titanic, an international body formed in order to write safety standards for big vessels. Their first rules were aimed at the causes of the Titanic disaster (both sinking and failure to rescue). This was in 1914 and they didn't visit the wreck to do it.

Safety testing and modeling has only gotten better since then. The problem here wasn't a lack of information on how to proceed safely.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What were those banging sounds ?? Was hoping it was them.

Why don’t you google banging sounds in the ocean. It will tell you how normal it is to hear them and how all the banging sounds in the search for flight mh370 meant nothing in the end. The ocean can be a noisy place and the sounds may have been coming from the titanic wreck itself.

[Anonymous]

I'm honestly shocked they found it so quickly once the ROV went down.

[Anonymous]

Would the implosion have to be caused by banging into something (like part of the Titanic or other debris, not a gd orca) or could it just be that the material(s) failed? Could they have been stuck down there and signaling (banging) and THEN imploded due to prolonged exposure to the depth?

I do understand the banging could be totally unrelated to the sub.

[Anonymous]

Well at least they didn’t suffer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The debris discovered within the search area near the Titanic wreck is from the missing submersible, the US Coast Guard has confirmed. They found the tailcone.

We know... see 7 pages ago

[Anonymous]

They have been able to identify parts: they found 5 major pieces nosecone, large debris field with front end bell of pressure hull, then found the second smaller debris field the end bell or totality of the pressure vessel.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:To be fair, how will we ever know what caused the Titanic to sink if we don’t study the site of the wreckage?

Are you kidding? What caused it to sink is not obscure. It hit an iceberg and filled with water. This is not, um, rocket science.

So, you think there is nothing to be learned from a tragedy like that? No design flaws? Or engineering mistakes? To prevent it from happening again?

Lesson - when a sailor says "ICEBERG ahead" the captain should make attempts to avoid it - not ignore the sailor. This has been proven by many many accounts.

They listened to the sailor on lookout, but you can’t stop or turn a ship that size on a dime. They should have taken a less direct route to avoid the ice field after they were warned about it. They should have been sailing slower. The water tight compartments should have been completely watertight, not watertight only up to a certain height. They should have had enough lifeboats to evacuate everyone. They shouldn’t have told people the boat was unsinkable.