Tourist submarine exploring Titanic wreckage disappears in Atlantic Ocean

[Swayzeexpress]

If they didn’t implode, I wonder if that thought crossed his mind. All the resources in the world and … accident

All this cash and renowned explorers around, maybe it's a scheme to fake deaths and get to some new territory we don't know about...

 

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[ProjectTwin]

David Pogue, who traveled in OceanGate’s Titan submersible to the Titanic wreckage for a report last year, said in the news package that he was "surprised how many pieces of this sub seemed improvised,” including off-the-shelf components from the RV chain Camping World, directions written on masking tape and the video-game controller, which OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush told him “runs the whole thing.”

Missing Titanic Sub Was Piloted Using Off-Brand PlayStation Controller

CBS correspondent who went on missing submersible said he was 'surprised' how much of it 'seemed improvised'

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[Ebs]

Sometimes you go looking for adventure and find too much.

 

[plym49.2]

David Pogue, who traveled in OceanGate’s Titan submersible to the Titanic wreckage for a report last year, said in the news package that he was "surprised how many pieces of this sub seemed improvised,” including off-the-shelf components from the RV chain Camping World, directions written on masking tape and the video-game controller, which OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush told him “runs the whole thing.”

Missing Titanic Sub Was Piloted Using Off-Brand PlayStation Controller

CBS correspondent who went on missing submersible said he was 'surprised' how much of it 'seemed improvised'

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I don't think the controller is the issue. Seeming 100% dependence on drive-by-wire without adequate contingency planning might be it, though.

If the structure catastrophically failed when it first went dark the mother ship would have caught that on their sonar, yes? I am voting for a gross system failure - maybe that even prevented dumping ballast?

 

[Rockbuggy84]

Just thought of something. You’re in this dumbass sub for quite a few hours. What do you do if you have to shit or piss?

 

[Gbkeith]

I really don’t have a problem with the video game controller running it. Those things last forever getting pounded and thrown across the living room.

 

[Gbkeith]

Just thought of something. You’re in this dumbass sub for quite a few hours. What do you do if you have to shit or piss?

Pull over and go behind a tree.

 

[Russell]

Just thought of something. You’re in this dumbass sub for quite a few hours. What do you do if you have to shit or piss?

It had a commode on board.

 

[GMCZ7198]

Just thought of something. You’re in this dumbass sub for quite a few hours. What do you do if you have to shit or piss?

It had a tv toilet and a privacy curtain by the window 🤣

 

[Roc Doc]

Its a tourist attraction, how high do you expect safety to be?

Is the scrawny guy with the porn mustache and the c-wrench hanging off his belt the same guy at the carnival?

 

[plym49.2]

Just thought of something. You’re in this dumbass sub for quite a few hours. What do you do if you have to shit or piss?

It has a small porta potty at the observation end with a privacy screen that can be hung.

EDIT: Youse two beat me to it.

 

[billdacat]

Pull over and go behind a tree..

Do you think a Taco Bell did the deed?

 

[ProjectTwin]

When This Word Appears THREE Times in the Titanic Submersible Waiver, Maybe You Shouldn't Go

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[Southernfriedcj8]

No EPIRB on board?

I wouldn't go offshore without one.

 

[JR4X]

 

[Gbkeith]

Do you think a Taco Bell did the deed?

I think Al-Qaeda took it over and Ali-snackbared it into the tower of the titanic.

 

[Stingray]

I really don’t have a problem with the video game controller running it. Those things last forever getting pounded and thrown across the living room.

Internet Explorer is his browser though,

 

[Kurtuleas]

Reports that they are hearing banging every 30 minutes.

Searchers for Titanic Tourist Sub Heard 'Banging' From Area

A Canadian Aircraft, part of the enormous search mission looking for the missing Titanic tourists, heard 'banging' at 30-minute intervals in the area the submarine disappeared.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[Southernfriedcj8]

Even if they are alive, which I doubt, no telling where the damn thing is by now.

 

[Landslide]

If they didn’t implode, I wonder if that thought crossed his mind. All the resources in the world and … accident

Sorta like a lot of the super rich folks that were passengers on the… titanic.

 

[plym49.2]

Sorta like a lot of the super rich folks that were passengers on the… titanic.

History repeating itself?

 

[animator]

It has a small porta potty at the observation end with a privacy screen that can be hung.

EDIT: Youse two beat me to it.

So for 250k, I gotta hover over someone’s fresh steaming dook to take a looksee out the window? Neat.

 

[Landslide]

Even if they are alive, which I doubt, no telling where the damn thing is by now.

In the ocean

 

[SomeGuyFromOlympia]

nope

 

[gt1guy]

23,000 pounds would be very little in the water? Serious question, I wouldn’t know a Sub from my ass. 23,000 pounds sounds heavy but it’s a bubble of air so buoyancy is something obviously you’re familiar with that I am not.

I'm actually surprised it weighs that much. Just from looking at the pictures of it to gauge it's size and the fact that it's made from CF, I would have guessed about half that weight or less. That fucker is heavy, 11.5 tons. I'd expect that kind of weight from something made from inch thick steel.



Buoyancy is just looking at the weight of the water the sub displaces and the weigh of the sub. If it displaces more water weight than it weighs, it's positive and will float. If it weighs more than the water it displaces, it's negative and will sink. A cubic foot of salt water weighs 64.38lbs.

Looking at the video of him sitting in it, I took a guess at a cylinder of 72"dia x 120" long. That would displace 18,199lbs of salt water. In that case it would be 4801lbs negative (it would sink).


How much does carbon fiber let you know it's about to fail due to over stressing?

 

[Stingray]

Rich people and their money.

Loosely following, but not seeing it as a tragedy, and the Titanic should not be a tourist attraction.

They Ded

 

[CDA 455 II]

The sub has parts from Camping World.

 

[srf]

I don't think the controller is the issue. Seeming 100% dependence on drive-by-wire without adequate contingency planning might be it, though.

At work we have a plasma table that uses a Xbox360 controller. If the controller loses connection while you're jogging the table it'll just keep on going and you have to run to the console to stop it before it hits something.

 

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