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Not an expert...but my impression is that the implosion , at depth, of even the very small submarine in question here would generate an extremely loud "noise". Probably obvious to any hydrophone on the support vessel, and near-certainly recorded in detail by military monitoring systems.
Few more details from The Seattle Times: >David Concannon, an adviser to the company, said Oceangate lost contact with the sub Sunday morning. It had a 96-hour oxygen supply, he said in an email to The Associated Press on Monday afternoon. “Now 32 hours since sub left surface,” said Concannon, who said he was supposed to be on the dive but could not go due to another client matter. He said officials are working to ge…
"Rear Adm Mauger said the rescue teams were "taking this personally" and were doing everything they could to bring those on board "home safe". What does that even mean? Is this opposed to your normal non-personal/strictly professional mode where you would not do everything you could?
I'm hesitant to speculate but just sharing -- an earlier version of this submersible was scrapped: "OceanGate will take advantage of lessons learned during the construction of its carbon-hulled Titan submersible, which was originally built for Titanic journeys. Rush said tests that were conducted at the Deep Ocean Test Facility in Annapolis, Md., revealed that the Titan’s hull “showed signs of cyclic fatigue.” As a r…
The hatch is bolted shut from the outside. When you make it back to the surface, there is no way to get out without external support. If the mother ship can not find the sub the occupants could be trapped bobbing just below the surface until their air runs out.
"Rear Adm Mauger said the rescue teams were "taking this personally" and were doing everything they could to bring those on board "home safe". What does that even mean? Is this opposed to your normal non-personal/strictly professional mode where you would not do everything you could?
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Jesus. This sounds like this group is just taking billionaires' money while running a death trap. How the hell do you lose your sub for five hours? This should have stopped all trips until they fixed this problem through a combination of technical and procedural changes.
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If your design breaks at less than the target then you really have to question the logic of continuing with that design. Making it slightly bigger won't fix the inherent issue with the materials. They're potentially opening themselves up to charges for killing these people. They knowingly or recklessly put them on a boat when it isn't capable of reaching the depth safely and now they are dead.
The fact they took it to some testing facility to test for cyclic fatigue shows that they understood that it was an unknown in the design, decided to test it at a facility designed for exactly that, it failed so they redesigned presumably with a design to mitigate the failures of design one. They probably took design two through the same testing process, and presumably it passed or they wouldn't have paying guests in…
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The hatch is bolted shut from the outside. When you make it back to the surface, there is no way to get out without external support. If the mother ship can not find the sub the occupants could be trapped bobbing just below the surface until their air runs out.
Seems like a pretty stupid design if you ask me
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https://youtu.be/29co_Hksk6o?t=157 Having been linked this elsewhere in the thread I don't quite like the fact that they're so brazen that they bought internal lighting from Camping World and drive it with a Logitech USB gamepad and using half-ass construction piping as a ballast. Or the fact that they scrubbed a Titanic launch for the media due to weather (presenting from some kind of briefing room where they presen…
> drive it with a Logitech USB gamepad As opposed to the professionals who went with a microsoft xbox controller? [1] > Or the fact that they scrubbed a Titanic launch for the media due to weather Yes? Weather is a thing. This is not a ride at disney land, of course they cancel the operation when the circumstances are not favorable. In fact doing the opposite would be foolish. The company in question might be full of…
I think what's more telling is that they didn't even splurge on the actual Microsoft Xbox controller. They cheaped out with an unproven logitech gamepad. When you're already doing something in an unorthodox way at least don't half-ass it.
> The company in question might be full of jokers, but your points don’t quite illistrate this well. They are about appearances and not substance.
Your distinction is a bit arbitrary. Every point about this company will always be about appearances unless you have first-hand accounts or experiences. Otherwise, info on the company's technology, choices, strategies or anything else will always be based on appearance. In the absence of more concrete evidence, these small indicators can at least provide something to infer from.