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Tourist submarine exploring Titanic wreckage disappears in Atlantic Ocean

CDA 455 II said:

Experts warned OceanGate of 'catastrophic' outcome, report says​

OceanGate, the company that operates the missing submersible, was warned its approach to the enterprise could have a "catastrophic'' outcome, according to a 2018 letter written by leaders in the submersible craft industry obtained by The New York Times.

The letter was addressed to OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush − who's on board the current voyage, according to the company − by members of the Marine Technology Society, an organization that advocates for ocean technology and education.

The 30-plus signatories said they were apprehensive about the company's “experimental” approach to its planned exploration of the Titanic wreckage and about the vessel's design, believing they could lead to safety problems that would have a negative impact on the industry as a whole.

The letter also says OceanGate's claim that its watercraft design meets or surpasses safety standards is "misleading to the public and breaches an industry-wide professional code of conduct we all endeavor to uphold.''
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Literally every upstart has this kind of drivel written about them by the incumbents. 5yr is a long time to make minor revisions to equipment and process. I wouldn’t put too much faith in this.

It’s like the corporate equivalent of a statement from an ex girlfriend.
 
srf said:
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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That’s just shitty software. Some dumbass wrote it to look for key up rather than looping on while key is down or something like that.
 
Lilyota said:
So are the rescue parties gonna botch this up with over thinking everything or are they gonna cowboy up and go down there and grab these folks.
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My understanding is that they don’t have many options to get down there.

An article I read stated that there were only two subs that could go that deep, and I think they were un manned.
 
Lilyota said:
So are the rescue parties gonna botch this up with over thinking everything or are they gonna cowboy up and go down there and grab these folks.
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They don't know where they are. That thing could've drifted who knows where. You're looking for a needle in a haystack. Just consider how long it took them to locate the wreckage of the Titanic and it's fucking huge and they knew the general area where it was.
 
I don’t understand why they didn’t have it tethered to the surface ship. Any problems of any kind, just reel it back in, or at the very least, you just follow the cable and know exactly where it is.
 
I was reading about the sub that took James Cameron to the bottom of the Marinis trench. The ballast was held on by a corrosive galvanic steel. The sub was comming up no matter what after x amount of hours do to the ballast weights rotting off. That sub makes this one look like a Babylon bee joke.
 
animator said:
I don’t understand why they didn’t have it tethered to the surface ship. Any problems of any kind, just reel it back in, or at the very least, you just follow the cable and know exactly where it is.
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Imo a cable would have be more of a liability than a safety feature.
 
ThePanzerFuhrer said:
I was reading about the sub that took James Cameron to the bottom of the Marinis trench. The ballast was held on by a corrosive galvanic steel. The sub was comming up no matter what after x amount of hours do to the ballast weights rotting off. That sub makes this one look like a Babylon bee joke.
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I’m wondering just when this sun is going to engage one of its multiple safety devices it supposedly has to return to sender mode?!?
 
What Safety methods could they use to come up? My understanding is that it's 100% drive by wire, so if power is lost they have no way to interact with anything.
 
east_beast said:
They don't know where they are. That thing could've drifted who knows where. You're looking for a needle in a haystack. Just consider how long it took them to locate the wreckage of the Titanic and it's fucking huge and they knew the general area where it was.
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Bottom currents

The strong surface currents that can carry boats and swimmers off course are probably more familiar to us, but the deep ocean is scoured by underwater currents too. Although usually not as strong as those found on the surface, these can still involve the movement of large amounts of water. They can be driven by winds at the surface affecting the water column below, deep water tides or differences in the water density caused by temperature and salinity, known as thermohaline currents. Rare events known as benthic storms – which are usually related to eddies on the surface – can also cause powerful, sporadic currents that can sweep away material on the seabed.

What information there is about the underwater currents around the Titanic, which is split into two main sections after the bow and stern broke apart as it sank, come from research studying patterns in the seabed and the movement of squid around the wreck.

Part of the Titanic wreck is known to lie close to a section of seabed affected by a stream of cold, southward-flowing water known as the Western Boundary Undercurrent. The flow of this "bottom current" creates migrating dunes, ripples and ribbon-shaped patterns in the sediment and mud along the ocean floor that have given scientists insights into its strength. Most of the formations they have observed on the seabed are associated with relatively weak to moderate currents.

Sand ripples along the eastern edge of the Titanic debris field – the splatter of belongings, fittings, fixtures, coal and parts of the ship itself that spread out as the ship sank – indicate there is an easterly to westerly bottom-flowing current, while within the main wreckage site, scientists say the currents trend from northwest to southwest, perhaps due to the larger pieces of the wreck, altering their direction.

Around to the south of the bow section, the currents seem particularly changeable, ranging from northeast to northwest to southwest.

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Why the waters around the Titanic are still treacherous

The disappearance of the submersible Titan during a visit to the wreck of the Titanic has raised questions about just what risks are involved in such an expedition to the deep.
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If they dont find them and haul em up today, its a done deal. But hey, what do we all know? We are depending on the media for info.
 
I seem to remember that the advice for clanging on the hull of a sunken vessel to alert rescuers is to do it at regular intervals, maybe hourly? This way the search parties know that they are not hearing random background noise. Can someone confirm/clarify?
 
Takotruckin said:
My understanding is that they don’t have many options to get down there.

An article I read stated that there were only two subs that could go that deep, and I think they were un manned.
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Are they even in the same ocean? Unless they can drop them out of a plane it’s not like there’s a speedy way to get from the South Pacific to the North Atlantic.
 
Gbkeith said:
Are they even in the same ocean? Unless they can drop them out of a plane it’s not like there’s a speedy way to get from the South Pacific to the North Atlantic.
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They're already there aren't they?.

The US put the kabosh on Canada trying to head on down yesterday.

I would guess there is a lot of action in that area currently.
 
plym49.2 said:
I seem to remember that the advice for clanging on the hull of a sunken vessel to alert rescuers is to do it at regular intervals, maybe hourly? This way the search parties know that they are not hearing random background noise. Can someone confirm/clarify?
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If shit hits the fan at work and I get trapped underground, this is how they'll locate us
 
Ksand said:
If shit hits the fan at work and I get trapped underground, this is how they'll locate us
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I am clueless. But what tools do they have to listen to sounds ? What's the range ? How do they locate you based on an intermittent banging sound ?
 
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