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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The submersible is sealed with 17 21" bolts that can only be unscrewed from the outside. [/quote]

Really?? What an awful design flaw.[/quote]

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

NP. It's still a design flaw and suggestive that if one such feature is so ill-considered, there may be other similar flaws. Anything with any electrical components can catch fire, and plenty of things can happen out of the water, or at a non-fatal depth, where they might want to be able to effect their own egress. Read about Apollo 1; it had a hatch door that had a ton of bolts and could only open inward. They had an electrical short during a training test, which started a flash fire; the astronauts couldn't get all the bolts undone and even if they had, it didn't matter because the hatch only opened inward and the fire caused the internal cabin pressure to rise so high that it was physically impossible to manually pull the door open against it. The astronauts all died in about 3 minutes without ever leaving the launchpad.

To slowly suffocate in a submarine thousands of feet under the sea sounds like a horror movie. If they're dead, I hope it was really fast and they knew little about it. And that nobody gets hurt on this rescue/recovery mission. [/quote]

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