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Tourist submarine exploring Titanic wreckage disappears in Atlantic Ocean

shortbus4x4 said:
Wonder if our Cold War underwater listening posts have been upgraded and/or still work. Seems like they might have picked up an implosion, but they might not say anything so it doesn't give our capabilities away.
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Ages ago I heard rumors that we knew when the Soviets/Russians fired up one of their diesel submarines. Considering sound travels through water better than air, I'm certain someone "heard" it.

The ship above the sub was also apparently tracking the sub with sonar, so someone HAS to know something they're not letting out yet.

Flip side: We're all being tricked into thinking something went wrong and the sub actually turns up safe. Book/movie deals and news/media tours as a result.
 
I thought they went missing only two hours into the dive - well before they could arrive at the sea floor.
 
The thing wouldnt have enough bouancy to come up if they lost their air or even opened the wrong valve.

Get freaked out and pull the wrong lever and its over.




plym49.2 said:
I thought they went missing only two hours into the dive - well before they could arrive at the sea floor.
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Yes I know and its the same effect as down at 12k ft.

But you can be rescued on the surface, not so at 5-12K ft.


Landslide said:
You do realize that this can happen above on land right?
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Tech Tim said:
It's not that the carbon fibre is buoyant, it's the bubble of air trapped inside that makes them buoyant.
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But wouldn’t the human bodies weight inside the submarine offset that? Some anyway?!?
 
PAE said:
The thing wouldnt have enough bouancy to come up if they lost their air or even opened the wrong valve.

Get freaked out and pull the wrong lever and its over.

Yes I know and its the same effect as down at 12k ft.
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So the photos of the interior show no manual controls of any kind. No piping, no valves, no switch panels. It was all done with software controlled by iPads or maybe a laptop.

I speculate that there was nothing mechanically wrong with the sub but it succumbed to a software or interface issue that rendered them silent and without means of navigating.
 
Thats psycho insane.

Hard to believe it was certified as a pressure vessel without manual controls, dont know about you but I wouldnt go Into something like that without manual controls.

plym49.2 said:
So the photos of the interior show no manual controls of any kind. No piping, no valves, no switch panels. It was all done with software controlled by iPads or maybe a laptop.

I speculate that there was nothing mechanically wrong with the sub but it succumbed to a software or interface issue that rendered them silent and without means of navigating.
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ProjectTwin said:
Hey now. You asked if carbon fiber floats. :flipoff2:
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All I know about carbon fiber is I use to cut it on a waterjet and it was difficult finding the pieces. Come to think about it, they would sink into the water and no way to find them then with the current blast from the table at 60,000 psi.

So yeah, I just answered my own question, carbon fiber sinks and it is not buoyant :flipoff2:

Mystery solved, sometimers is fun to have let me tell ya. :homer:
 
plym49.2 said:
So the photos of the interior show no manual controls of any kind. No piping, no valves, no switch panels. It was all done with software controlled by iPads or maybe a laptop.

I speculate that there was nothing mechanically wrong with the sub but it succumbed to a software or interface issue that rendered them silent and without means of navigating.
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Probably needed either a firmware update or they had scheduled on a timer for the iPad to update its software and now all they see is the circle of death on their screen
 
Netflix is already working on the movie.:flipoff2:

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I wonder if that sub had block/pieces of Syntactic Foam. That stuff is commonly used in underwater apps as it's buoyant.
 
Blugreenformula said:
Ironic, the billionaire would rade his entire fortune to teleport to dry land. All the money in the world won't save him.
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If they didn’t implode, I wonder if that thought crossed his mind. All the resources in the world and … accident
 

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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