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Tourist submarine exploring Titanic wreckage disappears in Atlantic Ocean

gt1guy said:
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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What is a "lay ship". I'm finding your comments most interesting in this thread. learning something. thanks :beer:
 
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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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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Put Paul Walker in the sub and add the arm to a waterproof 1970 dodge charger and call it F&F 11.
 
It's really really fucking doubtful the hull failed.

It's not like they were cruising around at depth and the bottom was way down below their test depth. They were touring the bottom. If they lost power, control, whatever, they'll wind up on the bottom 50-100ft lower, a perfectly safe depth for the hull.
 
I've gotta agree with you guys, that tube looks pretty sketch overall, I'm not sure I could do it. Fingers crossed for the people onboard, but if they did die I hope it was swift.

The one asterisk I think I saw regarding potential implosion, Somewhere on twitter I saw stated that there were sonars listening throughout the trip, and they never detected an "event". I have pretty low confidence in that statement so far due to lack of sources, but interesting if true
 
AgitatedPancake said:
I've gotta agree with you guys, that tube looks pretty sketch overall, I'm not sure I could do it. Fingers crossed for the people onboard, but if they did die I hope it was swift.

The one asterisk I think I saw regarding potential implosion, Somewhere on twitter I saw stated that there were sonars listening throughout the trip, and they never detected an "event". I have pretty low confidence in that statement so far due to lack of sources, but interesting if true
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I feel like an implosion would have been picked up by sonar somewhere Maybe the sub is too small to register or it was a slow enough leak that it didn't crush. I'm wrong often though.
 
Firstram said:
I feel like an implosion would have been picked up by sonar somewhere Maybe the sub is too small to register or it was a slow enough leak that it didn't crush. I'm wrong often though.
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I'd think the small sub can be heard if SOSUS can listen to mammal animals lol. And able to track a ship all way to UK.

and the SOSUS is what helped us to find the K-129 soviet sub, (and built the ship with giant grapplers to take it), USS Thresher, USS Scorpion

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Landslide said:
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.
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You just made me think of that government guy that was worried the island of Guam would tip over from too many soldiers on one side.:laughing:

"All the people rushed to the front and put too much tongue load on the sub, so it capsized and nose dived into the ocean floor."
 
TrailTamer said:
I'd think the small sub can be heard if SOSUS can listen to mammal animals lol. And able to track a ship all way to UK.

and the SOSUS is what helped us to find the K-129 soviet sub, (and built the ship with giant grapplers to take it), USS Thresher, USS Scorpion

en.wikipedia.org

SOSUS - Wikipedia

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The "sound bite" that multiple USN personell have given me is "if we care to listen for it we can hear a whale fart". The wording has been consistent enough that I assume that's what they're told to tell people to avoid giving away details of what our capabilities are. :laughing:
 
ThePanzerFuhrer said:
Now you talking. That’s an awesome story. So close to a success.
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Absolutely.

So mind blowing. This was in 60’s.

We probably won’t have smart phones or any other technology we have in our daily life if not for the WW2 or the Cold War.

Sometime I envy engineers who get to do amazing things back then.

“tickling the tail of a sleeping dragon” - Richard Feynman
 
maybe they got too close and part of he titanic fell on them. One article I read said that there were 7 different options for the submersible to return to the surface. Some automatic.
 
Should have SOSUS up there, is government being quiet about what they know
 
nahmus said:
maybe they got too close and part of he titanic fell on them.
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probably not

The US Coast Guard said the small submarine began its journey underwater with five passengers Sunday morning, and the Canadian research vessel that it was working with lost contact with the crew about an hour and 45 minutes into the dive.
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Supposedly it take 2 hours for Titan to descend to the Titanic.
 
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