Titanic tourist submersible goes missing with search under way

[Pokemon Conquistador]

The thing looks too much like the Hunley for my comfort.

 

[Safir]

Ah yes, trust the capitalist to fucking build a sub for the rich and think he won't fucking cut corners that will get everyone killed. I guess the ghosts of the Titanic can rest easy knowing that rich capitalists are identical in any fucking era.

Apparently the capitalist in question is himself in it, so it's less deliberately compromising safety and more "muh disruption" hubris.

Do you think it went down like this?

Nah, if it leaked they'd be instantly dead:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathysphere#1932

When conducting an unmanned test of the Bathysphere with the third window installed, they found it almost entirely full of water. Realizing the immense pressure that the Bathysphere must be under, Beebe ordered his crew to stand clear and began loosening the hatch's bolts to remove the hatch himself. Beebe described the experience that followed this in his book Half Mile Down:

Suddenly, without the slightest warning, the bolt was torn from our hands, and the mass of heavy metal shot across the deck like the shell from a gun. The trajectory was almost straight, and the brass bolt hurtled into the steel winch thirty feet [9.1 m] away across the deck and sheared a half-inch [13 mm] notch gouged out by the harder metal. This was followed by a solid cylinder of water, which slackened after a while into a cataract, pouring out the hole in the door, some air mingled with the water, looking like hot steam, instead of compressed air shooting through ice-cold water.

After replacing the third window with the steel plug and conducting another unmanned test, the same problem happened again. Beebe later described what would have happened to him and Barton had they been inside the sphere on a dive during which it leaked. They would not have had time to drown: due to the immense pressure, "the first few drops of water would have shot through flesh and bone like steel bullets."

Making sub hulls is harder than making space vessels. In space, you have 1 atm pushing from the inside, people can survive it (although as @HarblMcDavid pointed out, the rocket provides more ways to spectacularly die). Underwater, there's 370 atm zeroing in on the slightest flaw resulting in a cascading failure.

 

[Secret Asshole]

Apparently the capitalist in question is himself in it, so it's less deliberately compromising safety and more "muh disruption" hubris.

I'd never say it was deliberate, these people are too fucking retarded to be maliciously incompetent. But yes, hubris definitely there. Its 'good enough', to be the bare minimum of safety while not impacting profits, as they're billionaires and geniuses, so they know best. They're like fucking retarded children, greedy, stupid and oblivious to reality.

Underwater, there's 370 atm zeroing in on the slightest flaw resulting in a cascading failure.

People just don't realize that the deep ocean is as hostile to life on land as possible. Its basically another planet.

 

[CAPTAIN HAPPY]

Play stupid shit games, win stupid shit prizes.

 

[Otterly]

As a young and utterly stupid person I used to do diving - not the fluffy warm coral reef stuff but UK, mainly Scotland, chuck-a-rock-in-first-to-break-ice- if it was inland and wrecks offshore. Wrecks are fun, but looking back it is extremely dumb to swim inside an unstable shipwreck in almost pitch blackness in cold water. I stopped when I wanted to have kids and these days you’d get me in with a snorkel on a teff and no more. Like I say, dumb.
But having done that I know more than one commercial and salvage diver and have been subjected to many pub rants on submersibles and safety and horror stories of explosive decompression.

You just need to keep them dry as fuck to prevent them from debonding since they are a composite.

Great idea to immerse it under immense pressure where even a tiny break in waterproofing will be exposed.
Someone upthread pointed out that deep sea stuff is as dangerous as space. You’d survive longer in a vacuum than at that pressure. Barring a miracle, which I hope happens, everyone on board is very dead. When the Kursk went down, everyone in that bulkhead was compressed into under a few inches against the wall. Everyone in the intact area lasted longer.
This is what humans do - we explore frontiers and the deep ocean is the last one on the planet. We do dumb dangerous stuff ‘because it’s there.’ The day we stop doing that is the day our collective balls as a species are gone for good. So… RIP, I guess.

 

[Friendly Primarina]

Words

Yeah, I was just shitposting mainly. Still, you have to admire the bravery/stupidity of the Bathysphere's crew. "Well, it failed twice with catastrophic consequences, but we packed the plug more securely and it had one successful test. Let's go!!"

 

[Positron]

Nutters blame Musk.

 

[Snekposter]

Great idea to immerse it under immense pressure where even a tiny break in waterproofing will be exposed.

Well, yeah. I mean, its not a difficult problem to solve considering we make jet turbine blades out of carbon fiber these days, just an expensive one. And the Titan was clearly built to the lowest standards because they didn't even install a bitch basic internal liner.

Look at those highly visible striations. You couldn't pay me enough to hop inside this deathtrap. Not a single bit of serious internal reinforcement on that carbon fiber hull, either. This was a goddamn monocoque submersible, and I cannot think of a more personally horrifying phrase than those two words put together.

 

[Xanax and Wine]

Well, yeah. I mean, its not a difficult problem to solve considering we make jet turbine blades out of carbon fiber these days, just an expensive one. And the Titan was clearly built to the lowest standards because they didn't even install a bitch basic internal liner.
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Look at those highly visible striations. You couldn't pay me enough to hop inside this deathtrap. Not a single bit of serious internal reinforcement on that carbon fiber hull, either. This was a goddamn monocoque submersible, and I cannot think of a more personally horrifying phrase than those two words put together.

That tiny-ass window isn't even worth the trip, you get a better view from a YouTube video than you get from that DeathTube

 

[Bland Crumbs]

Will there be a dumb romantic film made about the submarine in 85 years from now?

Just a Scary Interesting episode.

 

[Iron Jaguar]

but the gs sustained from floating up from significant depth

Lol, you don't know what you're talking about. You are clearly not a diver.

Not a single bit of serious internal reinforcement on that carbon fiber hull

I'm not an expert on the subject but I've been in and around submarines and submariners. From what I understand, the pressure hull needs to be able to undergo uniform flexion, hence the lack of visibly obvious reinforcement.


Anyway, I'm pretty sure they're dead.

 

[theshep]

250k a seat on that sub, I can assure you, it was not a "shitty job", save for dealing with the tourists.

Yeah... about that...

Reporter: "Pieces of this sub seemed... improvised"

Spoiler

"I got these from Camping World"

Spoiler

"We run the whole thing with this game controller"

Spoiler

 

[Secret Asshole]

By the by, not just any game controller, a fucking off brand Logitech game controller, not something custom designed. So you know, one minute you lose connectivity the next minute you crash fucking face first into the side of the Titanic.

Yeah this was made by a fucking capitalist who cheaped out and just got 5 people killed, including himself possibly.

Anyone on this thing is too retarded to live.

 

[PyrrhicRustle]

Something even more fun is that the thing is by necessity completely bolted shut from the outside. So if by a miracle they manage to make it to the surface, they’re still fucked if no one finds them. That’d be the worst way to go I think, they spend a couple days lost in the crushing black void, but heroically and improbably eventually make their way up and break through to the surface, they see the sky, they see the sun, everyone is crying and hugging, then they realize they’re still trapped with just a few hours of air, and they suffocate like an hour before someone picks them up.

 

[The Nothingness]

If it's any consolation, my heart will go on.

 

[W00K #17]

Lol, you don't know what you're talking about. You are clearly not a diver.

I'm not an expert on the subject but I've been in and around submarines and submariners. From what I understand, the pressure hull needs to be able to undergo uniform flexion, hence the lack of visibly obvious reinforcement.


Anyway, I'm pretty sure they're dead.

Of course I'm not. I'm a wook. I do drugs in parking lots outside of drug band concerts.

 

[Gravityqueen4life]

heard the news this morning. i hope no one dies but at the same time, i dont really give a shit. they knew what they signed up for.

the sub



the "infamous" sub controller



the boys.




people have already starting to meme this event.

 

[tehpope]

"We run the whole thing with this game controller"

That looks like a logitech g f710

 

[RodgerDodger]

From what I've seen they lost contact and telemetry when it would have been just a little past halfway down. So there's a chance they might have been brought up with the emergency lift bags and are tumbling losy in the north atlantic being tumbled and pounded until their oxygen runs out. while they can see daylight through the portal. Plus the bitch is carbon fibre. Which makes it harder for surface search radar to spot.

So many horrible ways to die.

 

[Death of an Ego]

Money does not buy brainpower. This is the most ridiculous "deep diving" submersible I have seen yet. You couldn't pay me enough to set foot in that thing. Maybe the test depth without anyone in it could get down the 2 miles to the titanic, but this cigar tube was clearly for something like shallow red sea trips at best.
People with more money than sense have gotten married in better subs on the bow of the titanic already, and the wreck site is already a horrible mess from back when it was found in 1986. Just leave the damn wreck to ROVs. It has no archeological value. We know everything about the ship. The tragedy is what draws us to the gravesite.
If they are actually found against all odds, I hope they learn something. It's more likely they died very quickly.