Not everyone is chasing the ball, some people are attacking the space, that makes it so much better.
Titanic tourist submersible missing | Sub's debris found - crew "have been lost"
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Yes, I’ve done a full inspection of the construction specification. I can share notes if you’re interested.
Always wonder if they had allowed Catholics to help build the Titanic would it have fared better.
All it needed was a little Padre Pio sticker on the side and I'm sure it would have been fine
All it needed was a little Padre Pio sticker on the side and I'm sure it would have been fine
Exactly my thoughts
Yeah I've always hated that analogy. Only like two players are chasing the ball at any one time. The rest are moving about waiting for it to come to them.
i’ve always preferred the analogy of “some players have the submarine xbox controller, some are just waiting their turn for a go on the submarine xbox controller.” though i think with tyler retiring, we’re less likely to hear such a cliche from the commentary box.
That bit isn’t surprising. US Navy submarines use xbox controllers. It’s easier for crew to adapt to them rather than older control panels since they’re raise on gaming controllers.
That’s the plot of an episode of Malcolm in the Middle.
Interesting. I wonder if they do the same for aerial drones?
Why will they freeze to death? The temperature of the water around them will be 0 degrees or up, so I see no reason why they would be freezing in there given the structure is still intact.
What now? I am pretty sure they don't move a submarine around with any sort of game controller like device. They can probably use it to control some external equipment on the sub or some unmanned mini subs.
Like when the fair comes to town and you have that thing that swings side to side. You could easily use that. Only one time my friend Jonesy got motion sickness and almost vomited, but an older man instructed him to breath in through his nose and out his mouth and he calmed down, so you’d have to have someone like him to help people who are about to vomit
Calling it the Titan was their first mistake
Ye I've seen it used for all sorts but not actual vehicles carrying humans (other than in test scenarios).
and then if you have someone there stopping people from vomiting, you probably need someone there to help people that want to vomit. it’s becoming an unmanageable nightmare. let’s just sack the whole thing off.
Of course they’ll have a feature to resurface. I was speaking in jest at the journey of how it was designed. If it didn’t have a feature to automatically return to the surface that’s just pure criminal negligence.
Even if I was a billionaire, there is nothing exciting about getting in these capsules sat on the floor in a squatting position for 10-12 hours of the whole journey. That’s torture in itself!
Apparently mechanical problems and failures are very common with these submersibles. They apparently plan 5 a week and are lucky if one is successfully completed.
Imagine if they find it on a surface in a week or so with the CEO being the only survivor after killing the rest of the crew and claiming it was in the contract that in case of emergency the company has priority for oxygen.
If I was on board and knew my time was up I'd beat the owner sitting beside me to death.
Probably "freeze" was an overstatement. The craft being surrounded by water at near freezing 1-2C is a lot different to air at the same temperature. I don't know how well insulated the craft is, but I struggle to see how the air inside the craft wouldn't very quickly equalize temperature wise. I'm assuming they don't have cold weather gear, so imagine sitting outside at 1C in light clothing.
That made me
That would be the biggest tragedy. It returns to the surface but they still can’t get out because it has multiple bolts from the outside keeping them inside. It’s like being so close but yet so far. It reminds me of the Interstellar movie where he can see himself through the book shelf but can’t do anything to stop himself.
You’d probably be doing him a favour.
Agreed. That would be highly uncomfortable, but would nowhere near kill you. So that is actually a scenario in which the passengers could survive.
Hopefully those 7 different ways are more hi tech than having a gaming controller running off batteries
I don’t think the owner isn’t stupid enough to get in that thing.
There are some places people just don’t belong and 2.5 miles below sea level is one of them
For feck's sake.
Is it true one of the guys took his teenage son with him as well.
Surely it's enough you do something that stupid on your own but to drag your own teenage son into it as well is shocking
Surely it's enough you do something that stupid on your own but to drag your own teenage son into it as well is shocking
Well at least in future they can advertise two broken boats.
It's quite an interesting story, this. One small group of rich people's gawping underwater grief tourism has turned into a morbid adventure for the entire world to enjoy from the safety of their homes. Almost egalitarian of them.
There's no windows in the sub. They'd be watching it on monitors just like anyone could on dry land.
My mistake. Thought I had read elsewhere and didn’t recognise who he was.love the part in the article the sub was made using parts you can buy at camping world or wherever…definitely not confidence building is it
A Pakistani business man, Shahzada Dawood is on board with his son, Sulaiman (who's 19).
I apologise for being dumb in advance but would it be that difficult to find?
I presume they know the spot of the Titanic exactly so would they not just go straight down from there? If something happened the sub wouldn't it just sink straight down close to the Titanic? Or are the currents down that deep strong enough to sweep it way off course?
I presume they know the spot of the Titanic exactly so would they not just go straight down from there? If something happened the sub wouldn't it just sink straight down close to the Titanic? Or are the currents down that deep strong enough to sweep it way off course?
What's the need for it to be bolted from the outside. I assume it's not for the purpose of maintaining an air tight chamber so is it to prevent anyone from opening it from the inside?
Hypothermia can kill you pretty quick actually.
The submarine staying submerged is the worst possible scenario. There's a reason for why it cost them 250k per head to go down there. It's a not a trivial matter and there are very few submarines capable of getting there. And even if there were, they'd still need to be pulled up. I'm not sure if such a technology even exists at such depths? The submarine could also be stuck in the Titanic itself.
The sub needs to surface and they need to be found before Thursday(?). That's their only hope for survival.
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I assumed it was tethered to the surface, seems like a no brainer.