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Tourist submarine exploring Titanic wreckage disappears in Atlantic Ocean

I suppose that depending on how its automated surfing process works, if they made it all the way down, it could still be slowly drifting up.

My bet would still be on implosion.
 
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bunk said:
Even if they found them alive, theres no way for the only other 2 subs capable of that depth to rescue them.
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Probably not, but they could look in their window to see if they’re still alive and if they are wave to them and motion for them to come aboard your submarine :flipoff2:
 
I wonder if they were able to see the titanic before things went bad?!?

Do they or their families get a refund if they don’t make it out alive?
 
bunk said:
Even if they found them alive, theres no way for the only other 2 subs capable of that depth to rescue them.
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Gotta be some smart ideas we don't know about out there.

Wonder if they've tried forward/reverse over and over
 
plym49.2 said:
You would need whatever you were using to inflate that ballon to be stored at much greater pressure than what there is down there. Not really gonna happen.
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The sub that went down into the Mariana’s trench had a huge tank of gasoline as its float. It carried lead ballast and dumped it once they were ready to surface. Balls of tungsten making that dive.
 
Void_of_Light said:
The sub that went down into the Mariana’s trench had a huge tank of gasoline as its float. It carried lead ballast and dumped it once they were ready to surface. Balls of tungsten making that dive.
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Yup, gasoline for buoyancy.
 
gt1guy said:
If they are stuck on the bottom with no power, they're going to freeze to death long before they run out of O2.

I wonder what they have more of, onboard O2, or soda sorb for the CO2 scrubbers? I think I'd rather run out of O2 and fall asleep, than die from CO2 poisoning.
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For something that small and relatively unsophisticated, I am sure they carry O2 in bottles.
 
plym49.2 said:
For something that small and relatively unsophisticated, I am sure they carry O2 in bottles.
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PAE said:
Cylinders.
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Yes, they have to keep the O2 in HP cylinders. How else would you store a gas?:flipoff2:

Depending on how the O2 is injected into the sub (electronically or manually) they could stretch out their O2 by lowering the percentage in the sub. Dropping it to 17%-18% would buy them a little extra time. I guarantee it's normally kept at 21% inside the sub. It takes 16% to sustain life.

Still doesn't get them out of the CO2 issue.......................killing a couple of the people in there would help.
 
Swayzeexpress said:
Gotta be some smart ideas we don't know about out there.

Wonder if they've tried forward/reverse over and over
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No worries, they’ll be coming out with a movie in no time about thi… something really close to this and a rescue to save those poor souls. Some crazy engineer nerd has been building his own robotic arm controlled submarine in case something like this might happen. But he is ignored and laughed at by the mainstream submarine engineers saying robotic arms on a deep submarine would be completely useless… until now! He becomes their only hope and just as luck would have it, he has it up and running and it’s passed it’s test but it’s a wiring mess as he’s still modifying it. So a 1,000 zip ties later and his lucky bubblegum stuck on the ceiling for good luck and another chew once he surfaces again. Aaaand they’re off into the deep blue black abyss in search of the stranded amusement sub tangled in the titantic’s cables.

Hummmm… now we need some heavy hitter lead actors.
 
bunk said:
Even if they found them alive, theres no way for the only other 2 subs capable of that depth to rescue them.
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It would take something like a deep water ROV boat or a deep water lay ship to recover it to the surface. ROV's can easily go that deep and hook up rigging. The vessels will have winches that can also reach those depths.

Just need something on the sub to rig to. Certainly can't just choke a strap around it yank on it.:flipoff2:

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I worked on a lay ship that had a 400t winch for deep water work. We were working in 1500m (~5000') and just the empty winch wire was reading 75t on the load cell.
 
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Fullsize80cherokee said:
The sub only had one small window and a bunch of iPad looking screens inside to view what’s around it. Seems like viewing it remotely would be a better play.
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Yeah, what probably happened in reality is this. Once the titanic came into view out the single small window, all five people on bored had to do their best to shove all five of their fat faces into that little window to get their moneys worth looksie. Well, during the mayhem of everyone scrabbling over each other along with their legs asleep from squatting for 10~12 hours, they inadvertently pushed a bunch of buttons and switches on the dashboard along with jamming the thrusters joysticks forward. Well, you know where this is heading and it ain’t pretty either.
 
ThePanzerFuhrer said:
I don’t think we are upset. Just in awe of the stupidity of the whole thing.
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Kinda like that other thread about the dumbass who hiked to a stranded bus (could be the titanic of the bus world) and got stuck there and, well, died.
 
gt1guy said:
.......................killing a couple of the people in there would help.
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'Custom of the Sea'. Sunkin ship with survivors on a life boat. Up to sometime around 1875. The weakest and soon to die in all probability. Drank their blood.
 
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