The probability of an accident occurring may be low, but unfortunately at the depths involved the result of even a minor mishap is incredibly likely to be fatal, which is something you need to consider before partaking. Personally, I wouldn’t but each to their own…
I don't think you can really give him as an example of an "everyman" who just happens to have been to the Titanic a few times. He was the first person to solo dive to the deepest part of the planet, and has apparently been fascinated by shipwrecks since he was a child. He also became very aware of the risks and dangers of working underwater during the filming of The Abyss, which pretty much ran into every problem imaginable.
Absolutely! Looked cool though whatever the truth of the matter! I do think it might be a bit suspect, it's quite an acute angle and a lot of weight to be supported by the spine of the ship including heavy things like engines and boilers as depicted in the film (guess we just need to wait for that time machine to rock up so we can go back and see for ourselves).
My understanding is it takes around two to two and half hours to reach the seabed. So losing contact after an hour and forty-five suggests that they hadn't gotten to the bottom yet. This is entirely speculative on my part but I can't help but think that some sort of structural failure occurred. If they'd reached the sea bed then getting entangled in something (I believe there have been near misses on other expeditions by other submarines?) might be quite a plausible reason for whatever went wrong. But in the middle of the descent there's not quite as much to go wrong other than the structure itself.
Indeed. The comets spring to mind.
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The rest of the article is quoting different people praying they come out alive, although this is seeming less and less likely.
The complaint is that he has not seen any evidence of oxygen masks for use in the event of a fire. Much the same about venting. The whole video is full of 'ifs' which then get treated as if they were facts. I suspect he has misunderstood the Apollo 1 accident.
It would be kind if ironic if a failed dive on the Titanic lead to a load if safety improvements in the deep sea submersible industry, after the original ship did the same for ocean liners.
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I don't get this. 'Hey, we can help'; 'Nah, thanks all the same'. Why? As a concept it's no real difference to rescuing those South American miners or the children trapped in a cave, the world pulling together to help where there's a need.
Time, I imagine.
The size and so volume of that Argentine sub was considerably more however (67m long versus 6m long for instance). So the implosion of that submarine will have involved a lot more energy and consequently a much louder and more detectable sound signature. It was detected in the end by monitoring stations used to look for nuclear tests (which gives an indication of the amount of energy involved). I'm not ruling it out but the implosion of the Titan seems much less likely to have had enough energy to register.
Yes, that is all very true. Also the Argentine sub would have been carrying explosives too, which might have increased the sound.
Sure, SOSUS still exists in a diminished form (there aren't hundreds of Soviet submarines to worry about anymore!) and some of the old military hydrophones have been repurposed for civilian research instead but it really is a big big ocean and a noisy one to boot. Modern military sonars are incredibly sensitive (allegedly you can hear the sound of a helicopter hovering above the ocean, detect merchant ships hundreds of miles away, etc) but I really don't think it's particularly unlikely that the implosion could be missed in all that background noise especially when its not the sort of noise one is typically keeping an eye out for. Going back to the Argentine submarine. It was only realised that the implosion had been picked up when they went back and checked the tapes around the time that contact was lost because otherwise it just didn't register as significant. And that was a much more energetic implosion!
Yes, I can understand that line of thought, although I personally think a sonar operator listening in and hearing whale, engine, whale, engine etc then getting an implosion might stand out to them as something a little different. But that’s assuming anyone was in the right place at the right time, with the knowledge that a submersible had gone missing at that same moment in the first place.
Automated listening would make sense, as when the US Navy listening post at RAF St Mawgan (Newquay Airport) was closed down in the late 00’s, only 22 positions were lost. If it was active listening you’d need many more operators and admin staff than that for 24/7 coverage.
