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Tourist submarine exploring Titanic wreckage disappears in Atlantic Ocean

gt1guy said:
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.
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Ennie mennie minie mo.

Either way, if that is what they’re are faced with, then it has to be living hell until the time is up for all of them.
 
Spreader said:
'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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Humm, there is oxygen in blood sooo…
 
ArTi54N said:
if people get this upset over a sub.. i wonder when we loose a spaceship with popular famous people in it.. how will the world react?
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The track around the football field at my old high school is named after an astronaut that got smeared across East Texas.
 
gt1guy said:
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.
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There can be only one.
 
Landslide said:
Either way, if that is what they’re are faced with, then it has to be living hell until the time is up for all of them.
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You be surprized how some take their imminent death. I've read recovered letters/notes from dead coal miners trapped. Some very serious, some pragmatic about it. Others calm and a few cavalier or comical. You just can't know.
 
Spreader said:
You be surprized how some take their imminent death. I've read recovered letters/notes from dead coal miners trapped. Some very serious, some pragmatic about it. Others calm and a few cavalier or comical. You just can't know.
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I'd wager a guess that a bunch of rich fucks who probably see zero danger of ever being hurt during their day to day life ain't gonna take certain death too well.

Coal miners are tough sons of bitches who dance with death every day......................the folks in that sub are not coal miners.

I would think it would be more like shear terror, panic and hyperventilating until the headaches start leading into the convulsions from CO2 poisoning.
 
Landslide said:
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.
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You should be a script writer.

Bruce Willis can star.
 
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Apparently it's a giant piece of Shit
 

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gt1guy said:
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.
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I know nothing about how pressurizing subs work.

If they could depressurize the cabin a little, they could breathe a lower percentage of O2, extending their reserves. But that would also bring on a decompression obligation. And who knows what that would do to the strength/integrity of the sub.


gt1guy said:
Still doesn't get them out of the CO2 issue.......................killing a couple of the people in there would help.
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gt1guy said:
I would think it would be more like shear terror, panic and hyperventilating until the headaches start leading into the convulsions from CO2 poisoning.
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I'm guessing they have some sort of scrubber system to pull the C02 out.

The question would be how long would it be effective? The scrubbers in my rebreather weigh 5-6 lbs. and are good for 4-6 hours for one person, depending on persons size, co2 expenditure, warm or cold water. etc.
 
Couldn't pay me to get on board, the risk to reward is miles apart. It's a heap of junk on the ocean floor, not some epic new uncharted territory.
 
Landslide said:
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.
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It’s like the Rudolph the red nosed rain deer of the ocean :lmao:
 
Something about the rescue is on hold over paperwork (speculation?) is becoming a snafu, shit show or a clusterfuck-
 
gt1guy said:
Yes, they have to keep the O2 in HP cylinders. How else would you store a gas?:flipoff2:
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Thanks Captain Obvious. The context was instead of equipping it with scrubbers.

EDIT: I am also sure that sub ran on some form of electricity.
 
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TiTRD said:
Looks like 4 John boats welded together with some propane tanks plucked on top. I would not go 10 feet deep in that thing.
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The external hull is for hydrodynamics and doesn't hold pressure.

The internal hull is either cylindrical, egg shaped, a spheres or some combination thereof.

Probably not eggs though because complex shapes like that require engineering capabilities that that sub predates.
 
On the other side of it. It's kinda amazing the sub didn't have some sort of "oh shit" underwater locator beacon. If you've only got 72 hours of air, seems logical that the less time that they have to focus on finding you, the more time they have to form a rescue plan.

And I know it's not the Navy's primary buisness, but I'm willing to bet one of our subs could find that thing faster than a C-130 dropping SONAR buoys
 
frank c said:
Well...if he's gotta die somewhere, it may as well be somewhere he was familiar with.
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If that dude was on the manifest, that should have been a big NOPE NOPE NOPE from the others.
 
I'm really surprised by this sub operation.

I thought his would be a tethered sub, with a mothership above the sub.

They're fucked.
 
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