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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is a chat circulating on the interwebs that is supposedly a copy of the conversation between the submersible and the topside ship.  In the convo, the CEO mentions hearing crackling coming from the aft twice and that some sort of alert system was sounding.  He mentioned that he was descending too rapidly and had jettisoned the landing platform (but had trouble doing so initially) in an attempt to ascend.  The ascent appeared to be going slowly and it also seemed he was having trouble with one of the power systems.  At that point the conversation dies (around 9:54 a.m.).  Obviously I have no idea if this conversation is legit or not.[/quote]

I heard, like an other PP, that there were only signals or pings, not actually conversation. I guess this is so they could be, ya know, cool. [/quote]

Right, no idea.  The convo appeared to be in text format (which is consistent with how the CEO explained the communication method used between the sub and the topside ship, and also consistent with videos of successful dives where you could see them communicating with the topside ship via some chat program on a laptop).[/quote]

Right.  If the Titan had to abort their dive, there had to be a way of letting the mothership know they were on their way back up, so they could be retrieved.  And they probably had codes for problems on the sub that they'd relay.  [/quote]

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