cbr said:
JABQ04 said:
I'd imagine they hope it could go down and somehow attach a cable to the Titan and have it hauled up
A very neat and not well known but of American deep sea operations was project Azorian where we were able to retrieve a large section of a Russian nuclear sub that sank in the Pacific in the 70s. Granted the whole Project also took like 6 or 7 years from inception to execution. The sun was almost 3 miles down.
Yes, but that was a nearly decade long hundred billion dollar project in todays dollars….run by elite 50 year old white dudes, that failed to recover much of the sub.
This wouldnt be secret and much smaller, but the details of that project illustrate the difficulties
I've only been lightly following this story as I think it is sad but not really something that matters much in the grand scheme. I look at it the same way as doing any other risky activity and think it is cool but dangerous and sometimes that ends badly. Hope they somehow are saved, just a terrible way to die.
That said, has it been mentioned that it would seem a basic safety measure would be to simply connect the sub to a cable to begin with? I mean they aren't going inside the hull of the Titanic and you could always set it up to cut away if need be. It just seems like a cable would allow for them to be pulled to the surface pretty easily in a circumstance like this and they aren't going to go that far from the ship. It would certainly need to be a very long cable but not especially thick, just strong. That would have made all of this moot.
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