Titanic Submersible missing

[LuckyEddie]

Depending on what went wrong, they may be already dead (hull breach, electrical fault causing fire, fault causing all systems to shut down).
At the end of the “air left time” +24hrs the search should be abandoned and those considered lost at sea.
Its sad but accidents/incidents happen.

 

[Jon P]

There was a chap on the TV this morning who had been on a previous trip down to the titanic, from listening to him there appears to be a lot that could of gone wrong. Takes 2.5 hours to drop down to bottom, they got dragged away by the tides. But did manage to get a selfie with the wreck, they lost comms with the mother ship that time too. To get back up the surface the submarine has to reduce weight by dropping off heavy weights from the bottom of the hull , and wait to float back to the top. They had to sign numerous bits of paper agreeing there is a high possibility of death.

 

[User00036]

Money talks in people trafficking as well. Every one of those illegal migrants will have paid up to £5000 to be duped by traffickers into drowning on their death-trap boats.

Why call them Trafickers, Mass Murdering Bastards more like it & they get paid to do it.

 

[Smellydog]

Why, why would you want to be in a can breathing others farts on a trip with no view but a potential sighting of a scrap yard!

For £10k I could of driven them around stoke at night and if anyone farted you can open a window!

 

[Morkai]

 

[foxhunter]

Shame more effort is being put into finding 4 wealthy people + 1 employee on a submarine pleasure cruise vs. an estimated 500 who were on the boat thar sunk off the coast of Greece.
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Why search for migrants , they take a chance therefore suffer the consequences.

Look on the positive side , the fish were well fed

 

[Cyres]

Why aren't such submersibles fitted with an external transponder or such like which is fixed to the Hull so making location of the vessel possible in all situations. Surely not rocket science?
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[Drum123]

Why aren't such submersibles fitted with an external transponder or such like which is fixed to the Hull so making location of the vessel possible in all situations. Surely not rocket science?
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Or a ****ing long rope?

 

[JockStalk]

Why aren't such submersibles fitted with an external transponder or such like which is fixed to the Hull so making location of the vessel possible in all situations. Surely not rocket science?
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No, it’s submarine science.
Rockets up, then down. Subs down, then up.
Of course this sub is only 50% through the down then up cycle.
Any other science questions, I’m your man.

 

[Smellydog]

And water is very good at soaking up radiation. Like radio waves.

 

[NullMac]

Depending on what went wrong, they may be already dead (hull breach, electrical fault causing fire, fault causing all systems to shut down).
At the end of the “air left time” +24hrs the search should be abandoned and those considered lost at sea.
Its sad but accidents/incidents happen.

Yup. The loss of comms, failure to surface despite having multiple redundant systems suggests to me either implosion or water ingress.

 

[NullMac]

Aye, 100%.
I mean, Blasers?

You buy a Blaser when "Tam" dies. You think "**** not long to go"; taxman bastard will get his dibs into whatever I have left. **** it, HMRC are paying 40% of it, let's buy at least one quality rifle before I am deid.

If you don't recognise that, it will come your way one day sonny, you mark my words

 

[Len the dog]

To get back up the surface the submarine has to reduce weight by dropping off heavy weights from the bottom of the hull , and wait to float back to the top.

I read an article about it today, there is a shelf built onto each side on the outside of the vessel onto which they load lengths of scrap pipe. To jettison them they get all of the passengers to move to one side to tip the pipes off so that they become more buoyant. To say this was a Heath Robinson build would be something of an understatement. The hatch isn't really a hatch, it's a manway flange with a blind cover bolted on whilst on the surface, it can only be opened back on the surface, in no way is it a pressure balanced interface.

Basically they went 2.5 miles down in something that I would build in my man cave.

 

[Dave31]

Also the deeper they go, the more dense it becomes becoming more negatively buoyant. I would be surprised if a few lengths of scrap pipe would be anywhere near enough ballast to counter the compressibility, however, it's only a small submarine so maybe. Propulsion is what they need to get out of that situation, but if they had propulsion they would have been on the roof by now.

I would have thought there would be an active sonar type transponder which, with the right equipment, would be detectable from a long way. It would be a pretty serious ommission to not include something to alert the mother ship of its location.

 

[Liveonce]

sadly unless a miracle happens looks like titanic has claimed five more souls.

 

[Cyres]

I thought sound travels v well through water I remember it been said that some whales can communicate over hundreds of miles. So surely pretty simple to have an external transmitter with its own power supply so you can track it all the time. Also should be designed to break free in the event of a catastrophic event.
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[Jon P]

I read an article about it today, there is a shelf built onto each side on the outside of the vessel onto which they load lengths of scrap pipe. To jettison them they get all of the passengers to move to one side to tip the pipes off so that they become more buoyant. To say this was a Heath Robinson build would be something of an understatement. The hatch isn't really a hatch, it's a manway flange with a blind cover bolted on whilst on the surface, it can only be opened back on the surface, in no way is it a pressure balanced interface.

Basically they went 2.5 miles down in something that I would build in my man cave.

It would be interesting to know what the built cost of this submarine was , think they are charging £250,000 per person per trip.

 

[Smellydog]

It would be interesting to know what the built cost of this submarine was , think they are charging £250,000 per person per trip.

£139.00 with some points off their b&q club card .

 

[Smellydog]

I thought sound travels v well through water I remember it been said that some whales can communicate over hundreds of miles. So surely pretty simple to have an external transmitter with its own power supply so you can track it all the time. Also should be designed to break free in the event of a catastrophic event.
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It does but there is a lot of background noise too. The distances involved, the craft would need a massive pinger.
Technically I could here my mother in law cursing me like normal from 10 miles away.
Fortunately my wife produces enough background noise to drown the old ....dear out!
Every cloud.....

 

[Rake Aboot]

Crazy
You have to wonder why a company charging 1/4 million $ per trip wouldn’t just buy the top end stuff from Triton instead of this (apparently) lesser quality sub.
Tritons top end , no depth limit sub is 40 million so I’m pretty sure they could have funded it.