Titanic tourist sub missing

[Artaxerxes]

What would happen to a human body in an implosion at that depth?

Jam

 

[NoXion]

Biggest viewport on a deep sea submersible was a selling point IIRC.

There's a reason they're usually small. IIRC the Trieste had a viewport consisting of a block of quartz eight inches thick.

And OceanGate's idiot CEO still cheaped out on it!

I can’t bend my head around folk throwing hundreds of thousands of pounds at someone who refused vigorous testing of a craft for an already dangerous pursuit. I suppose being rich usually makes you invincible.

Turns out that money only gives you power in the human world, not necessarily over nature. If I were designing a submersible craft for carrying civilian tourists, I'd spare no expense. But maybe that's because I don't have whatever brain-rot it is that afflicts the obscenely wealthy.

 

[redcogs]

I can’t bend my head around folk throwing hundreds of thousands of pounds at someone who refused vigorous testing of a craft for an already dangerous pursuit. I suppose being rich usually makes you invincible.

At 2.5 miles deep even a Terminator would struggle to remain invincible.

 

[Magnus McGinty]

In the end, it being painted white probably helped.

 

[Flavour]

Dunno, that week in Febuary when no one was entirely sure if we were being invaded by aliens, and the US government had public state it probably wasn't the case is up there.

yeah that was a good laugh tbh

There was someone on a news programme earlier - a television presenter in the US who had reported on this thing and had been inside it. Apparently there were 18 boltholes, but only 17 went in during his demo because they couldn’t find the 18th, and this Stockton guy said ‘well, it doesn’t really matter, we’ve been down with less than 18 before’. So, the owner was very much a man operating without the full complement.

jesus fucking christ everything i learn about this guy just makes him even more of a weapon

 

[SpookyFrank]

The Trieste (the first vessel to reach the deepest part of the ocean, a feat not repeated for decades) was a fabulous piece of engineering. The ballast was iron balls held in place with electromagnets in vertical dropshafts, so that an electrical failure would automatically drop the ballast and bring the vessel to the surface.

 

[redcogs]

In the end, it being painted white probably helped.

Had it been red it could have survived?

 

[SpookyFrank]

There was someone on a news programme earlier - a television presenter in the US who had reported on this thing and had been inside it. Apparently there were 18 boltholes, but only 17 went in during his demo because they couldn’t find the 18th, and this Stockton guy said ‘well, it doesn’t really matter, we’ve been down with less than 18 before’. So, the owner was very much a man operating without the full complement.

17 did seem like a strange number of bolts.

 

[Magnus McGinty]

Had it been red it could have survived?

I mean the earlier conversation that it would be difficult to spot on the surface had it made it there vs being a wreck on the sea bed.

 

[tommers]

17 did seem like a strange number of bolts.

It's certainly odd.

 

[Tanya1982]

Ah, you beat me to it.

There was a video I saw the other day, just some random on YouTube, showing the sub with the song of ‘knock three times on the ceiling if you want me, twice on the pipe…’ playing over it. I had actually felt a sense of hope when it was reported that morning that banging had been detected so I hated myself for laughing, but it was quite witty.

 

[Magnus McGinty]

Having to explain a misunderstood joke never makes it funny.

 

[redcogs]

Silly me. i thought the final coat of white endowed the vessel with magical powers, enough to resist the final few pounds of water pressure that broke the tooobs back.

 

[Tanya1982]

17 did seem like a strange number of bolts.

Based on all we’ve heard, 17 and a gap plugged with chewing gum sounds about right.

 

[Magnus McGinty]

I remember flying on a plane in the 80s that looked like it was held together with gaffer tape. It will have gone through actual mechanical testing though despite its appearance.

 

[Ax^]

hmm have to ponder what the CEO was saying on the way down "you known the elf and safety crowd are just mad and woke look at us 1000 feet down...""

 

[Magnus McGinty]

Anyway, at least I got introduced to Edgar Allan Poe.

 

[Duncan2]

and someones crack about the likely cause of the banging every half being the crew bouncing the CEOs head off the titanium cheered me up a bit.

 

[Ax^]

I still cannot believe a commercial astronaut thought getting in that tube was a good idea how dodgy is billionaire funded space travel

 

[MickiQ]

Would love to be a fly on the wall at OceanGate HQ.

I expect their primary focus will be how they make it look like Stockton made all the decisions personally and refused to listen to anyone else.

 

[WouldBe]

Silly me. i thought the final coat of white endowed the vessel with magical powers, enough to resist the final few pounds of water pressure that broke the tooobs back.

The iceberg that sunk the Titanic was white and the iceberg survived.

 

[bcuster]

Probably likely it imploded on the way down when contact was first lost.

I'm not understanding why the craft would have imploded or collapsed when it was designed to withstand pressure of the type it was operating at when it was lost.

The hulls of the two lost US submarines USS Thresher & USS Scorpion collapsed at depths that far exceeded their test depths.

 

[BigMoaner]

Calling 26 more pages, 1 calling someone a cunt, and a one day ban towards the end.

 

[Artaxerxes]

I'm not understanding why the craft would have imploded or collapsed when it was designed to withstand pressure of the type it was operating at when it was lost.

The hulls of the two lost US submarines USS Thresher & USS Scorpion collapsed at depths that far exceeded their test depths.

Because the company didn't create or test very well beyond fag packet maths

 

[BigMoaner]

What would people rather, plane crash or this?

 

[Artaxerxes]

What would people rather, plane crash or this?

Plane because while the sub is quicker I might leave a body to actually identify in a plane crash

 

[BigMoaner]

Plane because while the sub is quicker I might leave a body to actually identify in a plane crash

Thanks

 

[AverageJoe]

So they couldn't find anything for four days and then they found the debris about six hours after the oxygen ran out.

Riiiiiiggggghhhhttttt.

#tinfoilhat

 

[NoXion]

I'm not understanding why the craft would have imploded or collapsed when it was designed to withstand pressure of the type it was operating at when it was lost.

The hulls of the two lost US submarines USS Thresher & USS Scorpion collapsed at depths that far exceeded their test depths.

Those two US subs were designed by engineers, rather than being cobbled together by a hubristic sociopath.

 

[LDC]

What would people rather, plane crash or this?

The thought of something similar at 36,000 feet and then being alive as you plummet to the ground over some minutes isn't very appealing either tbh.