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.
true enough. But it is filthy and badly cluttered, nobody has cleaned that floor in ages
that's assuming no suicide pact. Someone might have volunteered to stop breathing
The sub recycles co2 to o2 and relies on battery power to do that, so it won’t help to somehow stop anyone’s breathing as the bottleneck would be power.
In any case, according to Pogue, they either lost power already on Sunday or imploded, those two being the only possibilities explaining why even the auto pinging, not just human communication, stopped.
They've had 28 previous clients. So the submersible has probably gone down there around 7 times before. Not good. PSI at those depths is like 15,000. Every descent could potentially weaken the tiniest seal or component. Using it multiple times would be like playing Russian roulette.
At least their deaths were instantaneous in a nanosecond. There's no such thing as a slow leak at those depths. Only instantaneous implosion. Instant death.
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that's assuming no suicide pact. Someone might have volunteered to stop breathing
The sub recycles co2 to o2 and relies on battery power to do that, so it won’t help to somehow stop anyone’s breathing as the bottleneck would be power.
Has your know-it-all brain considered that the necessary rate of recycling, and the power required for it, likely depends on how many people are alive?
I could see a 4-1 vote against the guy that got everyone into this mess, saving 20% power.
Hey runners ! Look at what CNN includes in the same tourism category:
"Extreme tourism is a lucrative, high-risk industry. And it’s only growing. With enough money, tourists can summit Everest, take a rocket to space, run multi-day ultramarathons catered by Michelin-rated chefs, or plumb the oceans depths that have largely been off-limits for humankind."
Stockton Rush, the CEO of OceanGate and one of five people on the submersible missing in the North Atlantic, has cultivated a reputation as a kind of modern-day Jacques Cousteau — a nature lover, adventurer and visionary.
I do not think they have any chance of survival. However, what if a miracle happens and they are rescued? What does the CEO do then? Does he continue to go on other dives and insist that the sub is safe? Or does he refuse to go down again, which is basically an admission by the CEO that his sub is dangerous? If the company CEO refuses to dive, it is clear that NOBODY should be diving.
I could see a 4-1 vote against the guy that got everyone into this mess, saving 20% power.
If they survived away without implosion, I doubt they would vote. As hour after hour ticked by with fleeting hope of rescue, the four clients would be sitting there staring at the guy who caused their impending deaths. Someone would snap.
I do not think they have any chance of survival. However, what if a miracle happens and they are rescued? What does the CEO do then? Does he continue to go on other dives and insist that the sub is safe? Or does he refuse to go down again, which is basically an admission by the CEO that his sub is dangerous? If the company CEO refuses to dive, it is clear that NOBODY should be diving.
The company is finished regardless of what happens next
The sub recycles co2 to o2 and relies on battery power to do that, so it won’t help to somehow stop anyone’s breathing as the bottleneck would be power.
Has your know-it-all brain considered that the necessary rate of recycling, and the power required for it, likely depends on how many people are alive?
I could see a 4-1 vote against the guy that got everyone into this mess, saving 20% power.
Yes, you can tell your know-not-much gratuitously rude brain that it’s been considered.
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.
First of all, my post right above yours said it has a glass window.
And second, for all the posting you've done about this, you haven't even spent 10 seconds to google a diagram of the sub? So you don't really know much at all about the sub, do you? So why so much posting from a know nothing guy named "bah"?
"Only one thing concerned me: He said he had gotten the carbon fiber used to make the Titan at a big discount from Boeing because it was past its shelf-life for use in airplanes."
Why was this guy so cheap? Not only did he decide to take people to insane depths, he decided to skimp on everything, and basically laugh about it. The more I read stories about him, the more I'm convinced he's mentally ill.
Travel Weekly's Arnie Weissmann this past week has thought a great deal about a conversation in May with OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, one of five people missing on the submersible in the North Atlantic.
