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Titanic tourist sub missing

they've had some bods on saying that if it had imploded violently such an event would have been picked up by hydrophones, so more likely that is has remained intact. which ain't nice

This is true and not true - it's quite likely that the sound of an implosion has been recorded by either the US geological survey or the SOSUS network, but both those systems record far more data than can be listened to in real time, so they use software to sift the wheat from the chaff. The USGS are listening for earthquakes, landslips and volcanoes, the USN are listening for screw noises, machinery, and transients like torpedo doors and dropped pans in the galley.

The USGS found that it had recorded the implosion of the ARA San Juan some years ago, but only after it spent a week going through its data.

The ocean makes a lot of noise, and wrecks like Titanic make even more - you'd probably avoid putting your hydrophones near a wreck simply because it would bombard your systems with noise that you weren't looking for, so if something occured near the wreck you might or might not hear it, and even if you did, you might or might not recognise it for what it was.
 
Bit disappointed they've gone 'new money' and described the search area as 'almost twice the size of Connecticut'.

That's 1.3 Wales' to the rest of us.
This is where I drift back to being a heartless bastard... insufficiently concerned about the plight of billionaires... comparing this pointless search with the actual lives of migrants that could be saved... that kind of stuff.
 
it's amazing they managed to rescue so many people from the Titanic in 1912 to be fair
Saw something a couple of years back...basically it was an insurance job. Not only that but masonic connections closed ranks to prevent proper investigation much to the anger of the yanks
 
consprickartists are on it now....gerry anderson knew....





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Of course it's perfectly reasonable to pillory those responsible but the crapness and Heath Robinson approach to the whole venture has only really come to light over the last 48 hours, by which time the glee merchants were well into their stride.
Really? Seemed to me that all the crapness and Heath Robinson approach was always completely out in the open, especially in all the interviews and demonstrations he gave, its just nobody had really bothered to watch them at that point, presumably including the people who were dropping vast amounts of money and their own personal safety in his lap.

'subs lost and they've turned off the ships internet to stop us tweeting about it, lol'
 
Well, it’s very sad. There’s little doubt by now that they’re dead. I can only hope that any assets of OceansGate* are seized, and the reportedly substantial estate of Stockton Rush is sued, to recover every penny of the cost to nation states and other more reputable private companies who have dedicated their resources to this.

*And anyone working for them in a management, design, legal or medical capacity be likewise rinsed, and barred from practice/struck off.
 
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