Tourist submersible missing on visit to Titanic

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Anonymous wrote:The submersible is sealed with 17 21" bolts that can only be unscrewed from the outside.

Really?? What an awful design flaw.

Why? It's not like they could open it, exit, and swim to the surface.

Seems like a necessary design. If they were the other way, perhaps the pressure from the ocean could press inwards and “unscrew” them. Then everyone definitely dies. Bolting from the outside in means the pressure strengthens the bond.

It also means no one can freak out and try to open it from the inside...

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Anonymous wrote:The issue is we don’t even know for sure that Titan is intact at this point. We could be spinning our wheels for nothing here.

But the banging suggested it was intact.

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Anonymous wrote:Why doesn't a military sub assist?

We’ve got tons of subs in our navy; why doesn’t one of ours just go there, have the crew swim over one by one, and bring those people home already?

So our US Navy submariners can swim at 12000 feet below sea level? We've come a long way in naval warfare preparations.

We lost one of the worlds best divers Dave Shaw when he tried to retrieve the body of a fellow diver. The risk is too high to send a diver down this deep into the ocean.

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Anonymous wrote:Why doesn't a military sub assist?

because it takes days to get one there. i think they are trying

I don't believe that - there are subs off the coast all the time. There are subs from other countries as well - why aren't they assisting? It's been days since this started and at least one could have made it there by now.

all i've read is they are trying to get an unmanned vessel to the site but it won't be there until later today.

To what purpose it will be there? Best hope if that they are not too deep in the ocean but floating somewhere where sub can go?

If they see it, then they can stop looking everywhere else.

Personally I don't think they're currently alive. But if they are, they are only save-able if they're on the surface or somehow at a shallow depth. That's why rescuers are looking everywhere, across a huge area: just in case. If we see them on the bottom, we can't save them but at least we know.

But do you think they'll be alive later, since they're not "currently" alive?

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Anonymous wrote:Why doesn't a military sub assist?

We’ve got tons of subs in our navy; why doesn’t one of ours just go there, have the crew swim over one by one, and bring those people home already?

So our US Navy submariners can swim at 12000 feet below sea level? We've come a long way in naval warfare preparations.

We lost one of the worlds best divers Dave Shaw when he tried to retrieve the body of a fellow diver. The risk is too high to send a diver down this deep into the ocean.

It’s impossible. The diver would die immediately at those depths.

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Anonymous wrote:The issue is we don’t even know for sure that Titan is intact at this point. We could be spinning our wheels for nothing here.

But the banging suggested it was intact.

Also, can't they locate due to banging noise?

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Anonymous wrote:The issue is we don’t even know for sure that Titan is intact at this point. We could be spinning our wheels for nothing here.

But the banging suggested it was intact.

The banging could be from anything, there is so much crap under the ocean it could be from the Titanic.

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Anonymous wrote:The issue is we don’t even know for sure that Titan is intact at this point. We could be spinning our wheels for nothing here.

But the banging suggested it was intact.

Also, can't they locate due to banging noise?

Even if they locate it, there’s no way to lift it up. Apparently there is a lack of tethering devices on the outside of it.

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There is some couple suing the company for taking their money but not actually taking them on a dive. They should be thanking their lucky stars the company scammed them!

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“Safety is pure waste,” said submersible CEO now trapped in unrescuable submersible:

https://bestlifeonline.com/missing-titanic-submarine-ceo-safety-is-waste-news/

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Anonymous wrote:“Safety is pure waste,” said submersible CEO now trapped in unrescuable submersible:

https://bestlifeonline.com/missing-titanic-submarine-ceo-safety-is-waste-news/

He was the Elizabeth Holmes of submersibles.

"But Rush pushed back on his assertion that the vehicle was dangerous. 'There are certain things that you want to be buttoned down. The pressure vessel is not MacGyver at all, because that's where we worked with Boeing and NASA and the University of Washington,' he explained. 'Everything else can fail, your thrusters can go, your lights can go. You're still going to be safe.'"

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What if this was all a hoax like balloon boy years ago?

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press conference just ended -- they have heard sounds today but can't confirm that they are from the Titan. they are searching that area though. also sounds like many vessels have arrived to help

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Anonymous wrote:Why doesn't a military sub assist?

How? A “normal” sub cannot dive that deep. And if there are military subs that can and do, I don’t think their governments would want that publicly known.

Military subs can descend to 3000ft. These guys are 12000fy below.

If you think its as simple as sending down a sub to scoop up the capsule or tether a sonar beacon to a submarine and drag it around hoping to detect a ping, then I have a bridge to sell to you.

It would be like flying a kite to catch a space shuttle.

How can a military sub only go to 3000 feet, but these capsules can go to 12,000? Just wondering why the technology is so different.

Probably a cost/benefit decision. Probably not necessary for 99% of dives.

This is really giving off “she’s unsinkable” so we don’t need sufficient life raft vibes. The irony in people studying history absolutely repeating history is insane.

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Anonymous wrote:one of the members of the 5 is a retired French navy diver. apparently tapping every 30 minutes is a navy call signal and not something random. I think they are or at least were still alive.

Thank you! I didn't know that.

sadly he had made the comment in an interview, “When you’re in very deep water, you’re dead before you [realize] that something is happening, so it’s just not a problem" Based on his previous comment above I'm not sure he was right