Missing Titanic Sub Once Faced Massive Lawsuit Over Depths It Could Safely Travel To
Missing Titanic Sub Once Faced Massive Lawsuit Over Depths It Could Safely Travel To
Court documents reveal a former OceanGate employee had several safety complaints over the tourist submersible—and then he was fired.
Court documents reveal a former OceanGate employee had several safety complaints over the tourist submersible—and then he was fired.
Oh, the delicious irony that the CEO was on board...
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Huh, thats new to me.
And i couldn't find it in the linked article,
am i blind or are you referencing a different article?
the submersible was only built to a certified pressure of 1,300 meters, although OceanGate intended to take passengers down to depths of 4,000 meters.
Fry: How many atmospheres can the ship withstand?
Professor: Well, it’s a spaceship, so I’d say anywhere between zero and one.
Oh...I didn't realize until now that there were actual people on board. All the headlines said the submarine itself was missing and I wasn't interested enough to click.
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Damn. Is there realistically any chance of those people being located and rescued in time?
Supposedly there is oxygen for 4 days, so it it is in tact and they can get it to the surface by early Thursday, maybe.
But more likely there was a structural failure and they are all dead, crushed by the extreme depth.
I read an analysis of scenarios for the sub, and the best case is that they had a power failure but managed to surface. This is plausible because if something went wrong they would just need to drop their weights and float up naturally.
In that case, they're floating somewhere on the surface without communications and just need to be spotted.
But even that isn't a good situation because the ocean is ginormous and the sub is locked from the outside, so they're still limited to another day and a half of air supply.
If they're alive but under the surface, the search is nearly hopeless.
I read an analysis of scenarios for the sub, and the best case is that they had a power failure but managed to surface. This is plausible because if something went wrong they would just need to drop their weights and float up naturally.
I'm not sure dropping the weights would help from that depth. There's a point at which the pressure of the water above you cancels out any buoyancy lifting you up. It's not even that super deep for divers; I don't know what it is for a duct-tape-and-zip-tied backyard-crafted submarine, though.
If that were the case they would have some sort of emergency transponder on board. They are 100% crushed.
the submersible was only built to a certified pressure of 1,300 meters, although OceanGate intended to take passengers down to depths of 4,000 meters.
I think it's too late before they reached the Titanic.
OceanGate refused to pay for the manufacturer to build a viewport that would meet the required depth of 4,000 meters.
Well at least they saved some money.