Tourist submersible missing on visit to Titanic

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Have they tried UpUpDownDownABABStart?

Wow, thanks for making me feel like a terrible person for laughing at this.

Isn't it UpUpDownDownBABASelectStart?

This debate is likely the culprit. Sitting there for 90 hours debating this fact and screwing it up.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Can dolphins swim that deep?

No

What about an orca? I'm not saying this would work, but we won't know for sure unless we try.

you are joking right??

What about two orcas connected by a string?

I don't think a string would be strong enough, but a cargo net could work. They would likely need to strap modified headlamps onto the orcas since their audio/pinging ability is good but may not be quite good enough since the water is so dark at these depths!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Have they tried UpUpDownDownABABStart?

Wow, thanks for making me feel like a terrible person for laughing at this.

Isn't it UpUpDownDownBABASelectStart?

This debate is likely the culprit. Sitting there for 90 hours debating this fact and screwing it up.

SH*T! What if the controller is inverted? Do we know who set it up before they put it in the sub?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Has anyone thought about training a pod of dolphins to swim down and try to dislodge the tourist submarine. They are incredibly bright animals and should only take a couple of hours to train. Would be good to at least try while they wait for the ship with unmanned submersibles to arrive.

They could also consider some sort of pully with magnets, perhaps using a nearby fishing ship in the area.

It's 13000 ft into the darkest depths. No dolphin or fishing boat can navigate this. Even military submarines.

You're envisioning a fun little snorkling trip . This isn't it.

Yes, there's an excellent video circulating on Twitter that lists the depths that various marine animals and subs can swim at.

Here's a little graphic on marine animals:

I wonder what that Culiver Bearded Whale does all the way down there. It is interesting to me that animals have set depths they can dive to. Like do they each experiment and find this out on their own? Decides the pressure gets too much or they run out of O2 and have to get back. How do they know how much time it takes to get back to the surface to get air?

wow i can't read that tiny print. Guess it Cuvier's beaked whale.

[Anonymous]

If they are stuck on the wreckage of the titanic, what happens next? Do they just leave both wreckages down there?

[Anonymous]

Gosh I just love this thread. It has everything!

Class and Money
Adventure Travel
Movie ideas
Structural Engineering
Historical artifacts
Haikus
Steparent relationships
Oceanography

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Didn't they lose contact 1 hour and 45 minutes into the dive? How far do they get in that time? If only a small portion of the way (I'm assuming), wouldn't we assume whatever went wrong went wrong at that point? Wouldn't that point to a breach/implosion rather than getting stuck on the wreckage or whatever other nonsense?

Yes i think i read it takes 2.5 hours to get to the titanic.

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Anonymous wrote:Can dolphins swim that deep?

No

What about an orca? I'm not saying this would work, but we won't know for sure unless we try.

Ha! They are two miles deep, and the submersible has 17 outer locks in place.

They don't need to open the sub. You just take two orcas and tie a fishing net between them (maybe 50-75 feet max). The orcas then dive down, locate the sub, and scoop the ocean explorers up in the net. Then they go back to the surface and the coast guard can figure out how to get through the 17 or whatever locks.

Again, I'm not saying this will work, but it's much more worthwhile than flying a bunch of airplanes around for days.

Don't you think trolling about this is a bit ghoulish?

NP, not really. Make stupid choices win stupid prizes. I like the suggestions and haikus.

I enjoyed the comment yesterday where someone was going to donate a trip to her MIL. But sadly, some nimwad reported it.

The word is “nimrod” not “nimwad,” and the phrase is “play stupid, games win stupid prizes.” You are not only cruel, you’re stupid.

Cuántos idiomas hablas?

Quatro. ¿Y tú?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Didn't they lose contact 1 hour and 45 minutes into the dive? How far do they get in that time? If only a small portion of the way (I'm assuming), wouldn't we assume whatever went wrong went wrong at that point? Wouldn't that point to a breach/implosion rather than getting stuck on the wreckage or whatever other nonsense?

it takes 2 and half hours to get all the way down so they were pretty far. does seem to point to a breach.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:okay this is going to sound super dumb, but 2 miles below the surface didn't sound that far to me at first given we drive or even run 2 miles on a regular basis, but I guess when you factor in water pressure, the cold, and the extremity of all of it, 2 miles beneath the ocean surface really is a forbidding place. why is it that we can comprehend 2 miles in distance on land, but when you consider a depth of 2 miles, it's an overwhelming depth?

Yes, it’s cubic miles at this point, unfathomable pressure, complete darkness, devoid of any appreciable life forms, basically hell.

[Anonymous]

Amazing. What kind of sick ba*ters joke times like this?

[Anonymous]

I'm fixated on this! I haven't been this anxious since that Fountains of Wayne singer died from Covid in March 2020.

[Anonymous]

Why does this fascinate me? I think its because I've never even pondered deep sea exploration. Who knew they took people down to look at the Titanic? I sure didn't know that.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Has anyone thought about training a pod of dolphins to swim down and try to dislodge the tourist submarine. They are incredibly bright animals and should only take a couple of hours to train. Would be good to at least try while they wait for the ship with unmanned submersibles to arrive.

They could also consider some sort of pully with magnets, perhaps using a nearby fishing ship in the area.

It's 13000 ft into the darkest depths. No dolphin or fishing boat can navigate this. Even military submarines.

You're envisioning a fun little snorkling trip . This isn't it.

Yes, there's an excellent video circulating on Twitter that lists the depths that various marine animals and subs can swim at.

Here's a little graphic on marine animals:

I wonder what that Culiver Bearded Whale does all the way down there. It is interesting to me that animals have set depths they can dive to. Like do they each experiment and find this out on their own? Decides the pressure gets too much or they run out of O2 and have to get back. How do they know how much time it takes to get back to the surface to get air?

They're like the introverts of the ocean. My husband would be a Culiver Bearded Whale and would enjoy the silence and solace.

Also, what did you do as a kid in a pool? You figured out how long you could hold your breath and when your ears started to pop, yes?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Didn't they lose contact 1 hour and 45 minutes into the dive? How far do they get in that time? If only a small portion of the way (I'm assuming), wouldn't we assume whatever went wrong went wrong at that point? Wouldn't that point to a breach/implosion rather than getting stuck on the wreckage or whatever other nonsense?

it takes 2 and half hours to get all the way down so they were pretty far. does seem to point to a breach.

That’s what makes the most sense but the alleged tapping sound throws that theory out. So either the tapping is something else or wasn’t ever really there or they didn’t implode from a breach because they couldn’t be tapping if their vehicle imploded them