Carbon fiber is strong but very breakable. Same with titanium, especially at cold temperatures. I appreciate the wear-testing by these individuals - we now have more data for future submersibles.

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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.

I think the water pressure is so powerful that buoyancy is negated and, therefore, any type of debris field doesn't exist. The water current and pressure doesn't allow anything to just float away.

But the debris from the titanic are still there. Made of much less space age material.

That craft is about the size of a coffee mug now.

I think of Jen Corliss the wing suit jumper who crashed jumping off of Table Mountain in SA.

He said the idea of week in and week out sitting in your car for two hours or more to go to your 8 hour a day job is the example of insanity to him.

For many, it is a dream to view the final resting place and if you have the means why not.

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Anonymous wrote:I feel so sorry for the teenager on board. While technically an adult, he certainly didn’t pay for it himself. Surely the father knew the risks and made what he thought was an informed decision- fine- but why bring a teen along? So sad.

The boy isn’t 4. He must have asked to go.

19 year olds are notoriously great at risk assessment and their deep understanding of their own mortality.

Anonymous wrote:One of the missing passenger - Paul-Henri Nargeolet - is a Titanic scholar who has written books on the ill-fated voyage and its passengers. Totally insane.

More about Nargeolet, he's gone down the wreck site 35 times.

https://nypost.com/2023/06/20/paul-henry-nargeole-diver-missing-on-titanic-sub-made-chilling-remark-about-deep-dives/

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Anonymous wrote:I was reading that they have apparently 96hrs of oxygen supply. If the sub still has oxygen. It can’t return to the surface that sounds like a slow and excruciating death.

I hate to say it, but they’re better off being crushed.

Can you explain why they can't resurface? I don't understand.

Because the craft may be destroyed.

Anonymous wrote:I feel so sorry for the teenager on board. While technically an adult, he certainly didn’t pay for it himself. Surely the father knew the risks and made what he thought was an informed decision- fine- but why bring a teen along? So sad.

The boy isn’t 4. He must have asked to go.

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Anonymous wrote:I was reading that they have apparently 96hrs of oxygen supply. If the sub still has oxygen. It can’t return to the surface that sounds like a slow and excruciating death.

I hate to say it, but they’re better off being crushed.

Can you explain why they can't resurface? I don't understand.

One of the missing passenger - Paul-Henri Nargeolet - is a Titanic scholar who has written books on the ill-fated voyage and its passengers. Totally insane.

After listening to the CBS reporter describe this sub I'm not sure why anyone would pay any amount of $ to board this thing. Controlled by a retrofitted video game controller? Seriously? and they can only navigate to the Titanic using text messages from the mothership guiding them by saying go left, go right I guess because of the depth and satellites can't reach them. Sometimes the sub can't even find the Titanic because it's basically relying on directions from above and the trip is aborted. After you pay all that money.

I feel sorry for the mother/wife, who has just lost her husband and one of her sons in one fell swoop. She'll inherit a fortune but she'll be traumatized for the rest of her life thinking about how they died as all the scenarios are just awful.

A recent story with interesting graphics and commentary from a prior diver: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12214387/Titanic-diver-whos-wreck-fears-missing-OceanGate-sub-imploded-10-000-feet-underwater.html

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Anonymous wrote:I feel so sorry for the teenager on board. While technically an adult, he certainly didn’t pay for it himself. Surely the father knew the risks and made what he thought was an informed decision- fine- but why bring a teen along? So sad.

Wow I didn’t know that. So unconscionable.

Yes, one of the guys brought his 19 year old son. Ugh.

Yes this is very upsetting.

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Anonymous wrote:I feel so sorry for the teenager on board. While technically an adult, he certainly didn’t pay for it himself. Surely the father knew the risks and made what he thought was an informed decision- fine- but why bring a teen along? So sad.

Wow I didn’t know that. So unconscionable.

Why?

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Anonymous wrote:I feel so sorry for the teenager on board. While technically an adult, he certainly didn’t pay for it himself. Surely the father knew the risks and made what he thought was an informed decision- fine- but why bring a teen along? So sad.

Wow I didn’t know that. So unconscionable.

Yes, one of the guys brought his 19 year old son. Ugh.