Titanic tourist submersible goes missing with search under way

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Vecr said:
You find it hard to understand? How about having a window rated for way less than the depth the submersible goes to? The fact that there are screws going into the carbon fiber, but the end caps are glued on?
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That's part of what I was (vaguely) referring to. Imagine having the responsibility to keep people safe in a dangerous situation, and, instead of taking your job seriously, you cut corners. What the fuck is wrong with those people?
 
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Cuckoman said:
The ocean is very deep and very dark and very slow and difficult to search.
Unless they eventually find it by accident just next to the titanic itself my money is that they will never find it.
I mean, it took them forever to locate titanic itself and it is like hundreds of yards long, tens of stories high. They are never going to find this tiny, and by now probably flattened, tiny flat pizzabox.
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It took them a while to find the Titanic because in 1912 the technology simply didn't exist for them to go to the depths.

Assuming the sub is still out there and they find it RIGHT NOW, how long would it take to rescue the occupants and get them breathing air again? My guess is "too long".
 
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frozen_runner said:
That's part of what I was (vaguely) referring to. Imagine having the responsibility to keep people safe in a dangerous situation, and, instead of taking your job seriously, you cut corners. What the fuck is wrong with those people?
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American culture encourages being retarded, those who choose security over freedom deserve neither you know.
 
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Xarpho's Return said:
Assuming the sub is still out there and they find it RIGHT NOW, how long would it take to rescue the occupants and get them breathing air again? My guess is "too long".
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The time will depend on the current condition of the vessel, though no matter which option you choose too long is the answer. Even if they found them on Monday afternoon too long is still likely the answer.

Even ignoring needing oxygen and being very cold, I can't imagine there were many provisions on board. Dehydration will also be in the mix for what takes them first. Alongside any injuries sustained in whatever happened.

It does have two emergency systems for these problems, interesting they seem to have failed. They can jettison their dive weight to make it emergency surface and it has a radar reflector to increare its radar cross section once surfaced. I would be looking at the weight engineers (static) and the ballast engineers (dynamic) personally, there is a reason real submarine companies have significantly more of each of those than this entire operation had employees.
 
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Android raptor said:
Banging noises are some unrelated ocean sounds (or orcas trying to drum up more billionare sacrifices).
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With all the talk of demoralization I've seen in Thunderdome, I'm half inclined to suggest that "communist orcas" is another late-blooming Soviet plot we're only just seeing the consequences of.
 
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Xarpho's Return said:
It took them a while to find the Titanic because in 1912 the technology simply didn't exist for them to go to the depths.

Assuming the sub is still out there and they find it RIGHT NOW, how long would it take to rescue the occupants and get them breathing air again? My guess is "too long".
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If they find it right now? It would take many weeks to several months to just do the planning for the recovery.

400 Atmospheres is a lot harder to deal with than a moon landing. Space is one atmosphere differential. It is fucking easier to do a rescue on the moon than under 10.000 feet.
 
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WE'RE ALL GONNA said:
If they start culling each other for oxygen would it make any difference?
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Yes, but it would have the opposite effect they'd want. With piss and shit and rotting food you can at least seal it in plastic bags or other small containers. With a whole rotting corpse not so much. And rotting consumes oxygen.

It might save oxygen for a short while, but then you'd have to time the killing rather well. Maybe kill the person on the last day so it doesn't have time to start decomposing.
 
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Still 50-60 hours before Juliette ROV capable of actually doing something at that depth can be deployed.

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