Titanic tourist submersible goes missing with search under way

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What's the most favorite restaurant for killer whales?

Five Guys, did you know they now serve subs!

I know it's cold there but heard it was minus 5 down near the Titanic

I can't believe those of you making fun of the titanic submarine would sink so low.

Kinda like they did.

Hopefully the crew of the Titan Submersible will, one day, get the recognition they deserve.

A Darwin Award.

People think that billionaires have it easy, but in the end the pressure gets to them.

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This whole thing is fascinating to me. I’m a diver and I’ve done the blue hole in Belize. You’re supposed to be 130’ max, I went to 145’ to get pictures of the stalactites. I thought a lot about it since even 130’ is challenging and made sure I was safe for all the pressure involved - no nitrox on that dive, even though it cost me bottom time on the two dives coming back.

And then I think about this shit. 33’/10 meters is an atmosphere of pressure. I was paranoid as hell about ~4 1/2 atmospheres - this fucking guy was going to over 100 atmospheres of pressure and was totally blasé about some Home Depot epoxy used to stop pool leaks? Lol.

E: and this point I think had already been made. The difference between Miami and space is one atmosphere. The difference between Miami and where this thing went is like 100 atmospheres.
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spinal gas chamber said:
This whole thing is fascinating to me. I’m a diver and I’ve done the blue hole in Belize. You’re supposed to be 130’ max, I went to 145’ to get pictures of the stalactites. I thought a lot about it since even 130’ is challenging and made sure I was safe for all the pressure involved - no nitrox on that dive, even though it cost me bottom time on the two dives coming back.
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I think you're insane. Just the existence of that thing scares me. At least you took the extreme danger involved seriously.
 
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Using commercial off-the-shelf gamepads to control a submersible is not a bad idea. That is, if we're talking about a hobbyist's small unmanned ROV. The military have used Xbox 360 controllers to drive small UGVs around in the past, so there is a precedent for this. It's not as braindead as it sounds, at least for things that aren't safety-critical. USB gamepads are plug in and go, and more often than not, they work great.

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For a manned vehicle, you definitely want an $800 to $2000 marine-rated joystick hard-wired in, and not a Logitech G F710 with a 2.4 GHz USB receiver, which was what they used on this piece of shit.

Apparently, they made extensive use of COTS components in constructing this deathtrap, scoffing at the idea of using type-certified equipment, or having anything tested and certified at all. There are very good basic engineering reasons why classification societies like the American Bureau of Shipping and Det Norske Veritas exist and why the good shit is so expensive.

For one thing, the ocean is a brutal environment that will fuck you in half in two seconds flat if you thumb your nose at it. Saltwater spray is highly corrosive, and it forms aerosols that worm their way into every fucking thing. Salt air corrosion eats poorly-sealed consumer-grade electronics for breakfast. The pressures and temperature ranges experienced by submersibles are huge. Marine-rated equipment needs to be able to withstand electrical interference, it needs to be sealed and corrosion-proofed, and it needs to be invulnerable to large changes in temperature and frequent thermal cycling. That's where the expense comes from.


In another old clip of Rush, he is seen explaining that he preferred not to hire "50-year-old White guys" with military experience to pilot his company's vessels.

Rush valued captains who were "inspirational" over experience, noting that "anybody can drive the sub," which is controlled with a $30 video game controller.

"When I started the business, one of the things you'll find, there are other sub operators out there, but they typically have gentlemen who are ex-military submariners, and you'll see a whole bunch of 50-year-old White guys," Rush told Teledyne Marine in a 2020 interview over Zoom.
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According to both lawsuits, Lochridge was fired after a meeting over his concerns about the Titan. One of Lochridge’s stances is that OceanGate should have done a scan of the Titan’s hull instead of using acoustic monitoring, which is what the company’s engineer said was better for finding flaws.

In his complaint, Lochridge alleges that the submersible’s viewport was certified to withstand pressure at 1,300 meters, not 4,000 meters, which was the intended depth.
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These woke, addle-pated, congenital retards thought they'd YOLO their way through 4000-meter dives in a turd-shaped cylinder of carbon fiber and titanium packed with cheap consumer-grade electronics and air bottles, with a viewport rated for a third their intended depth and with a wireless game controller to drive the doomed contraption around with instead of rugged APEM or Caldaro joysticks. The result was predictable. After a few dives fatigued the pressure vessel, the thing was crushed like a tin can. They died instantly. They didn't experience any pain, because the moment the sub imploded, they were all mashed potatoes in under a millisecond.

The lesson here is quite clear. Do not fuck around with the ocean, and more importantly, do not ignore the guidance of marine classification societies.
 

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spinal gas chamber said:
This whole thing is fascinating to me. I’m a diver and I’ve done the blue hole in Belize. You’re supposed to be 130’ max, I went to 145’ to get pictures of the stalactites. I thought a lot about it since even 130’ is challenging and made sure I was safe for all the pressure involved - no nitrox on that dive, even though it cost me bottom time on the two dives coming back.

And then I think about this shit. 33’/10 meters is an atmosphere of pressure. I was paranoid as hell about ~4 1/2 atmospheres - this fucking guy was going to over 100 atmospheres of pressure and was totally blasé about some Home Depot epoxy used to stop pool leaks? Lol.

E: and this point I think had already been made. The difference between Miami and space is one atmosphere. The difference between Miami and where this thing went is like 100 atmospheres.
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13000' = 3962 meters. 10 meters/atmosphere = 396.2 atmosphere's at the depth they imploded. 14.5 psi/atmosphere = 5,745 psi.

And dude. Pat yourself on the back that you survived going outside the bounds for normal air diving. Now please promise to never ever do anything so fucking stupid again. Rules are made for a reason. And the reason being going outside them would typically maim or kill a large percentage of the extremely fit and healthy male 18-25 year olds that the Navy did the tests with. The death rate for normies is substantially worse.
 
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"God Himself could very easily have sunk that ship; He just chose not to."
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I came across this ship while reading more about the Titianic.

It managed to ram a German U-Boat and even at a very slow speed, unintentionally ripped a small ship in half as well.

I guess this was the true "unsinkable" ship that was named after Mount Olympus.

Why is there no movie on this ship?


On 9 October 1912, White Star withdrew Olympic from service and returned her to her builders at Belfast to have modifications added to incorporate lessons learned from the Titanic disaster six months prior, and improve safety.[78] The number of lifeboats carried by Olympic was increased from twenty to sixty-eight, and extra davits were installed along the boat deck to accommodate them. An inner watertight skin was also constructed in the boiler and engine rooms, which created a double hull.[79] Five of the watertight bulkheads were extended up to B-Deck, extending to the entire height of the hull. This corrected a flaw in the original design, in which the bulkheads only rose up as far as E or D-Deck, a short distance above the waterline.[80] This flaw had been exposed during Titanic's sinking, where water spilled over the top of the bulkheads as the ship sank and flooded subsequent compartments. In addition, an extra bulkhead was added to subdivide the electrical dynamo room, bringing the total number of watertight compartments to seventeen. Improvements were also made to the ship's pumping apparatus. These modifications meant that Olympic could survive a collision similar to that of Titanic, in that her first six compartments could be breached and the ship could remain afloat.[81][82]
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I remember reading about this company years ago before they had done their first expedition. Needless to say it was out of my price range, but I was surprised something so significant went so under the radar. Never imagined a tragedy like this would be what brought it to wider attention.
 
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spinal gas chamber said:
This whole thing is fascinating to me. I’m a diver and I’ve done the blue hole in Belize. You’re supposed to be 130’ max, I went to 145’ to get pictures of the stalactites. I thought a lot about it since even 130’ is challenging and made sure I was safe for all the pressure involved - no nitrox on that dive, even though it cost me bottom time on the two dives coming back.
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Anyone even thinking about nitrox for Blue Hole is a fucking idiot. "I guess I won't give myself oxygen toxicity when I'm going deeper than I'm supposed to'" doesn't make it any better.
 
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I think you're insane. Just the existence of that thing scares me. At least you took the extreme danger involved seriously.
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i read one of those long-form articles that the fancy-pants magazines write about some scubanigger who was diving to recover the corpse of some other scubanigger who had died trying to retrieve a corpse, or something, and all through the whole thing I was like "fuck this for a bag of pancakes" holy shit.

I think this was it: https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/water-activities/raising-dead/ (a)

fuckitol scubaniggers are insane
 
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reptile baht spaniard rid said:
fuckitol scubaniggers are insane
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I can't really verify this, but apparently Rick Stanton has wiggled through some really small holes in underwater caves, once with only a bailout bottle (he dumped all his other gear). He also built a home made fully manually controlled rebreather because the normal ones were too big for the tiny holes he wanted to go through. He also apparently went into an also very small hole no one had ever gone into before, without correctly setting up a line to follow when he wanted to go back out. He promptly got lost and was unable to find his way out by himself because many parts of the cave walls looked similar.
 
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Vecr said:
I can't really verify this, but apparently Rick Stanton has wiggled through some really small holes in underwater caves, once with only a bailout bottle (he dumped all his other gear). He also built a home made fully manually controlled rebreather because the normal ones were too big for the tiny holes he wanted to go through. He also apparently went into an also very small hole no one had ever gone into before, without correctly setting up a line to follow when he wanted to go back out. He promptly got lost and was unable to find his way out by himself because many parts of the cave walls looked similar.
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Yeah but that absolutely insane lunatic uses his weird powers to save other people, not to sucker them into dying for his ego.
 
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This dude was supposed to go on the Titan but his expedition was cancelled at the very last minute. Stockton Rush and Paul-Henri Nargeolet appear in the video. From 10:56-14:40 he covers all the things that have gone wrong so far. A fishing net got tangled around the sub and "broke a lot of stuff." A test dive was canceled because one of the sub's computers got fucked up. Rush: "We've been using [these computers] now for three years so they've been pretty durable but you never know."

They enter the sub around the 21 minute mark and get bolted in. "You ever had any water leaking into the cabin?" he asks.

They lose comms 10 meters down and abort the dive due to fog.

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As if on cue:


5 rich people died on a shit tier submarine! Illegal migrants [that sink their own ships and end up killing themselves] most effected

Proving yet again journos are the lowest trash there is
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I don't see how 700 invaders sinking is any greater a loss than 5 rich assholes.
These fucks set out to invade Europe in shoddy deathtraps and most of the time they fucking sink themselves relying on bleeding hearts to pick them up.
Good on the Greek Coastguard for standing back and saying "lol no" because everytime a boat full of these faggots is rescued it encourages the next load.
Personally I think the invader boats should get a warning to either turn back or be towed back to Africa and if they refuse they should be sunk.
What the fuck it has to do with the Titan imploding I don't even know.
 
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