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There is a timeline of events:
4AM - sub is launched
5:45 - contact is lost
11:30 - Final Ping. The sub automatically sends a ping every 15 minutes. So it pinged for about 5 hours.
After that, it was a matter of announcing the loss and soliciting help.
It may never be found. They are looking for a 22 foot object in nearly complete darkness and have to search from close to surface - 12,000 feet away.
Took them long enough to find Titanic, which was huge.
They haven’t found MH370 yet as well - which is much larger than the submersible
@ 2:08
"The interest in the Titanic is the reason we go there, because people are willing to fund this kind of exploration in science, and that gives it a completely different research component that almost nowhere else in the deep ocean can you get funding to go back every year, for decades, and see how coral reefs develop and see how metals decay, and see how currents change ... I mean, that just, you can't justify that. No government will pay for that, nobody wants to go back to just some old reef. But people do want to go back to the Titanic. And that's why we go, because people wanna go. " ~ Stockton Rush
Did anyone notice the earlier post, where an article was linked to a prior incident with the same submersible, where there were technical difficulties? I wonder how reliable that vehicle was after that. Was the company relying on a vehicle that had issues, simply because they'd already invested so much money in it, and needed to continue doing "tours" to recoup their investment and make a profit?
More info needed.
Yes, the CNN reporter went down in that submersible to see the Titanic. He said they were LOST for 2 hours on that trip too. Apparently they can only communicate via TEXT since nothing else will penetrate. Even for directions on where to go, they rely on text. Seems unreal.
Worse, they are bolted from the outside with 17 bolts so can't even get out for air if they did surface, without the support boat/team. OMG. This is just awful. The deepest rescue in history is only 2,000 feet, compared to their depth of 13,000 feet, if at bottom. Doesn't look good.
I wonder what the difference is between losing contact and losing the pings? So, the sub was pinging from 5:45 to 11:30 but the crew was not communicating? That should be a red flag. They waited until 9:30 PM to call for help. If the sub did implode then it wouldn't continue to ping for six hours or so. But if something happened to the communications system or the crew, why would the automatic ping stop?
The ping device might have survived after an event. Like an airplane black box after a crash. If they are still alive it must be one nasty situation in that tube right now.
The Coast Guard says there are 40-41 hours of breathable air left.
If I were in that metal tube at the bottom of the ocean, at this point I would just want it to be over. I mean if you have any slight inclination of claustrophobic nature to you? That would be beyond hell. My guess, is they’re all deceased.
If I were in that metal tube at the bottom of the ocean, at this point I would just want it to be over. I mean if you have any slight inclination of claustrophobic nature to you? That would be beyond hell. My guess, is they’re all deceased.
I'd think that if the sub had sudden decompression, if there were any USN subs in the area they may have heard the blast? But it's a big ocean and I'm not sure how far away something like that might be heard.
It would be a sudden compression or implosion due to structure failure. I saw an interview with a retired nuclear sub captain. He was asked if he ever lost communication in his sub, the response was don't lose communication in a 2-billion-dollar submarine.
They are all dead it happened in less than a second when they lost the pinging.
So this might be a really stupid question, but is the missing submersible the only submersible on the planet? Why can't they send another submersible down there to look? I heard the last location was right on top of the Titanic. It's unlikely that they are that far off.
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