US official said in recent interview that the noises were heard today and yesterday but he also said that they are not in 30 minute intervals
Link? Most reports I can find say they were periodic in 30 min intervals first and then similar noises were heard again four hours later.
Early reports are often wrong and get corrected later. Journalists are so eager to get the story out that they often don't have time to make sure their facts are 100% correct.
Certainly a risky activity - anyone engaging in this would know.
Regulation is ridiculous in such a niche industry. Some things you just have to roll the dice on and occasionally they come up snake eyes <- which is why, again, the most important question here is how many previous successful dives?
Also, I'm new to this story. Is the CEO/founder on board? And did I read somewhere (cnn.com) that this was a planned 8-day trip?!?
Link? Most reports I can find say they were periodic in 30 min intervals first and then similar noises were heard again four hours later.
Early reports are often wrong and get corrected later. Journalists are so eager to get the story out that they often don't have time to make sure their facts are 100% correct.
It’s also unclear which political leanings (pro or anti-orca) the reporters may have.
Knocking sounds? I recall over nine years ago, flight MH370, CNN reported government sources onAustralian or New Zealand watercraft heard pings from flight recorder. Turns out, they did not hear pings from flight recorder. Finding this watercraft is the easy thing. It's likely within a few kilometers of Titanic wreck. Getting passengers out of watercraft is the challenge.
Certainly a risky activity - anyone engaging in this would know.
Regulation is ridiculous in such a niche industry. Some things you just have to roll the dice on and occasionally they come up snake eyes <- which is why, again, the most important question here is how many previous successful dives?
Also, I'm new to this story. Is the CEO/founder on board? And did I read somewhere (cnn.com) that this was a planned 8-day trip?!?
the CEO is on board the sub.
The 8 day trip includes the time in the boat getting hundreds of miles off shore, then going down to the Titanic, and then hundreds of miles back to shore.
This may be a dumb question since I haven't read any articles on the sub itself, but from the pictures it doesn't seem like there are any actual windows, right? There probably couldn't be at those depths. So what's the point exactly? You go down and view the wreckage on a screen inside the sub using an external camera and light? Why in the world would you do that? You put your life at risk to see the Titanic on a screen that you could just as easily view from a ship using a camera on an unmanned vessel.
Finding this watercraft is the easy thing. It's likely within a few kilometers of Titanic wreck. Getting passengers out of watercraft is the challenge.
The boat knows exactly where the sub was when it lost contact. Since then, it can't have moved too far in one direction or the other.
The sub would have been found already if they had a backup communication or pinging system in place. But once the main system went down, there was no backup system.
How dumb are you to spend millions of dollars building a sub but not spend thousands of dollars for a backup communication/pinging system?
The people building the sub obviously thought that there was no way anything could ever go wrong. Ooops!
Finding this watercraft is the easy thing. It's likely within a few kilometers of Titanic wreck. Getting passengers out of watercraft is the challenge.
The boat knows exactly where the sub was when it lost contact. Since then, it can't have moved too far in one direction or the other.
The sub would have been found already if they had a backup communication or pinging system in place. But once the main system went down, there was no backup system.
How dumb are you to spend millions of dollars building a sub but not spend thousands of dollars for a backup communication/pinging system?
The people building the sub obviously thought that there was no way anything could ever go wrong. Ooops!
If the submarine came to rest on the sea floor, you do realize the seafloor if moving (plate tectonics)??
Also the Uncertainty Principle says that we cannot really know where anything if we know it is moving (see: plate tectonics), so locating the sub will likely require quantum computers! This is why the DoD is involved.
This may be a dumb question since I haven't read any articles on the sub itself, but from the pictures it doesn't seem like there are any actual windows, right?
There probably couldn't be at those depths. So what's the point exactly? You go down and view the wreckage on a screen inside the sub using an external camera and light? Why in the world would you do that? You put your life at risk to see the Titanic on a screen that you could just as easily view from a ship using a camera on an unmanned vessel.
There is one window on one end of the sub. You need to sit on the toilet in order to look out the window. So if someone is using the toilet, no one gets to look out the window.
You probably think I just made that up, but no I didn't. Go find some diagrams of the sub and you'll see what I'm talking about.
The boat knows exactly where the sub was when it lost contact. Since then, it can't have moved too far in one direction or the other.
The sub would have been found already if they had a backup communication or pinging system in place. But once the main system went down, there was no backup system.
How dumb are you to spend millions of dollars building a sub but not spend thousands of dollars for a backup communication/pinging system?
The people building the sub obviously thought that there was no way anything could ever go wrong. Ooops!
If the submarine came to rest on the sea floor, you do realize the seafloor if moving (plate tectonics)??
Also the Uncertainty Principle says that we cannot really know where anything if we know it is moving (see: plate tectonics), so locating the sub will likely require quantum computers! This is why the DoD is involved.
Oh give me a break. It's not like the sea floor is moving 60 miles per hour. What a dumb post.
If the submarine came to rest on the sea floor, you do realize the seafloor if moving (plate tectonics)??
Also the Uncertainty Principle says that we cannot really know where anything if we know it is moving (see: plate tectonics), so locating the sub will likely require quantum computers! This is why the DoD is involved.
Oh give me a break. It's not like the sea floor is moving 60 miles per hour. What a dumb post.
Why haven't we explored most of the seafloor? It's because it's very hard to navigate due to Quantum effects. Sadly the tourist sub learned this the hard way.
This may be a dumb question since I haven't read any articles on the sub itself, but from the pictures it doesn't seem like there are any actual windows, right?
There probably couldn't be at those depths. So what's the point exactly? You go down and view the wreckage on a screen inside the sub using an external camera and light? Why in the world would you do that? You put your life at risk to see the Titanic on a screen that you could just as easily view from a ship using a camera on an unmanned vessel.
There is one window on one end of the sub. You need to sit on the toilet in order to look out the window. So if someone is using the toilet, no one gets to look out the window.
You probably think I just made that up, but no I didn't. Go find some diagrams of the sub and you'll see what I'm talking about.
Only having a single window is actually a critical design choice.
Were there multiple possible observers of the sub-seafloor system the complexity of locating it would be exponentially harder. With a single observer the relativistic equations to predict the location are no harder than college-level calculus.
This may be a dumb question since I haven't read any articles on the sub itself, but from the pictures it doesn't seem like there are any actual windows, right? There probably couldn't be at those depths. So what's the point exactly? You go down and view the wreckage on a screen inside the sub using an external camera and light? Why in the world would you do that? You put your life at risk to see the Titanic on a screen that you could just as easily view from a ship using a camera on an unmanned vessel.
For someone who thinks looking through a window is cool, I can imagine that looking through a virtual window would also be cool. Though it’s not clear to me whether or not it had glass windows.
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I’ll say it. If one guy is a billionaire and the others could afford to pay $250,000 for this short excursion, I think their estates should bear the costs of the search. As a tax payer I’m opposed to spending tens of millions of dollars to search for some foreign billionaire because he wanted some adventure.