Adventure to the Titanic goes terribly wrong [Staff Warning in OP]

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TefIon Don said:

akaggie05 said:

The technology is there, both for underwater acoustic beacons, and radio beacons that can be located by satellites within seconds if they're lost and bobbing on the surface. Of course, it had neither.


Just unreal.

Yeah, those types are safety precautions must have been deemed not inspirational.
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AgsOnDeck said:

My theory?

The underwater vehicle submerged on Sunday morning (18 June) and its support vessel lost contact with it about an hour and 45 minutes later.

After almost 2 hours submerging, the submarine imploded causing a loss of communication. So hopefully it was a quick death.

My question is would there be any body parts or existence of them 4-5 days later at the bottom of the sea?


The banging noises that they were hearing every 30 minutes leads me to believe they were alive and probably stuck on the ocean floor until they recently ran out of oxygen.
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Dumb question

Is it possible they were alive and responsible for the noise people heard and when they neared losing oxygen, there was a way to have the submersible become compromised and not have to suffer?
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GiggityAg01 said:

Definitely Not A Cop said:

I would like to see someone like James Cameron (a well known celebrity deep diver, particularly with his connection to The Titanic) to put out a video explaining the technical differences between the sub he uses when diving versus what these people were using)
It seems like that analysis would be better from a 3rd party. Given that 4 of the people onboard were paying passengers trusting the company with whom they contracted (not total innocents but certainly more innocent than, say, a test pilot signing up for a good chance at death in the interest of science and country), it seems like it would be hard to say "Hi I'm James Cameron and here's all the reasons I lived through deeper dives and your family didn't. Of course I didn't say anything previously though."


Sorry, how is James Cameron not a 3rd party in this situation?
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akaggie05 said:

I'm an electrical engineer, not a physicist, but understanding is that a sudden implosion at those depths would basically vaporize everything inside.
Yeah, it all happens in an instant but if you slowed it down to milliseconds the water coming in would literally cut you into pieces like a laser, everything but your bones would be squeezed into almost nothingness by the overall pressure, and the air inside combusts because of the raised pressure on it. So you're diced, incinerated and crushed in an instant. Then the debris would drift and fall another 5000-6000 feet down over a wide area. There won't be any body parts.
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HoustonAg2106 said:

AgsOnDeck said:

My theory?

The underwater vehicle submerged on Sunday morning (18 June) and its support vessel lost contact with it about an hour and 45 minutes later.

After almost 2 hours submerging, the submarine imploded causing a loss of communication. So hopefully it was a quick death.

My question is would there be any body parts or existence of them 4-5 days later at the bottom of the sea?


The banging noises that they were hearing every 30 minutes leads me to believe they were alive and probably stuck on the ocean floor until they recently ran out of oxygen.


My guess is the noises were unrelated and this thing imploded days ago.
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JCA1 said:

HoustonAg2106 said:

AgsOnDeck said:

My theory?

The underwater vehicle submerged on Sunday morning (18 June) and its support vessel lost contact with it about an hour and 45 minutes later.

After almost 2 hours submerging, the submarine imploded causing a loss of communication. So hopefully it was a quick death.

My question is would there be any body parts or existence of them 4-5 days later at the bottom of the sea?


The banging noises that they were hearing every 30 minutes leads me to believe they were alive and probably stuck on the ocean floor until they recently ran out of oxygen.


My guess is the noises were unrelated and this thing imploded days ago.
That's my thinking as well. Probably imploded the moment the mother ship lost communication with it.
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Definitely Not A Cop said:

GiggityAg01 said:

Definitely Not A Cop said:

I would like to see someone like James Cameron (a well known celebrity deep diver, particularly with his connection to The Titanic) to put out a video explaining the technical differences between the sub he uses when diving versus what these people were using)
It seems like that analysis would be better from a 3rd party. Given that 4 of the people onboard were paying passengers trusting the company with whom they contracted (not total innocents but certainly more innocent than, say, a test pilot signing up for a good chance at death in the interest of science and country), it seems like it would be hard to say "Hi I'm James Cameron and here's all the reasons I lived through deeper dives and your family didn't. Of course I didn't say anything previously though."


Sorry, how is James Cameron not a 3rd party in this situation?

Because he is an English major who didn't finish college?

Smart guy....but he didn't build those subs. He was the money.
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ballchain said:

Joes said:

akaggie05 said:

I'm an electrical engineer, not a physicist, but understanding is that a sudden implosion at those depths would basically vaporize everything inside.
Yeah, it all happens in an instant but if you slowed it down to milliseconds the water coming in would literally cut you into pieces like a laser, everything but your bones would be squeezed into almost nothingness by the overall pressure, and the air inside combusts because of the raised pressure on it. So you're diced, incinerated and crushed in an instant. Then the debris would drift and fall another 5000-6000 feet down over a wide area. There won't be any body parts.
For those morbidly curious, read about the Byford Dolphin diving bell accident: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byford_Dolphin#Diving_bell_accident

The "Medical Findings" section describes what happened, anatomically, to the personnel involved. They were decompressed from 9 atmospheres to 1 instantly.

At Titanic's depth, it is 375 atmospheres. You have to imagine the rest.

This is the exact opposite, though, yes?
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JABQ04 said:

AgsOnDeck said:

My theory?

The underwater vehicle submerged on Sunday morning (18 June) and its support vessel lost contact with it about an hour and 45 minutes later.

After almost 2 hours submerging, the submarine imploded causing a loss of communication. So hopefully it was a quick death.

My question is would there be any body parts or existence of them 4-5 days later at the bottom of the sea?


Very possible there are remains. When we recovered portions of the K129 (see project Azorian) after 6 years of sitting on the floor of the Pacific, they were able to identify remains of 6 Soviet sailors and give them a burial at see. There's a video on YouTube I believe of the ceremony. One of the bodies, IIRC, was found to still be in his bunk, which is probably he had no idea what was happening before the sun imploded.
K129 didn't implode at 10,000+ feet deep.
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Sky News reporting the debris found is the landing frame and rear cover from the submerisble.

https://news.sky.com/story/titanic-submarine-missing-live-updates-submersible-cannot-be-opened-from-inside-time-running-out-on-oxygen-supply-waiver-mentions-death-three-times-12905748
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lunchbox said:

Sky News reporting the debris found is the landing frame and rear cover from the submerisble.


That's pretty much it for the people in there, isn't it?
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Squadron7 said:

Definitely Not A Cop said:

GiggityAg01 said:

Definitely Not A Cop said:

I would like to see someone like James Cameron (a well known celebrity deep diver, particularly with his connection to The Titanic) to put out a video explaining the technical differences between the sub he uses when diving versus what these people were using)
It seems like that analysis would be better from a 3rd party. Given that 4 of the people onboard were paying passengers trusting the company with whom they contracted (not total innocents but certainly more innocent than, say, a test pilot signing up for a good chance at death in the interest of science and country), it seems like it would be hard to say "Hi I'm James Cameron and here's all the reasons I lived through deeper dives and your family didn't. Of course I didn't say anything previously though."


Sorry, how is James Cameron not a 3rd party in this situation?

Because he is an English major who didn't finish college?

Smart guy....but he didn't build those subs. He was the money.


Yeah I get you, not making any arguments to the contrary. He's still a 3rd party and he's basically the face of this technology for the average person in the world, particularly because of his fascination with the Titanic.

I'm for him having an actual engineer explain the super technical design issues, but him being the main face in the video will get way more engagement than anyone else putting out a similar video.
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Definitely Not A Cop said:

Squadron7 said:

Definitely Not A Cop said:

GiggityAg01 said:

Definitely Not A Cop said:

I would like to see someone like James Cameron (a well known celebrity deep diver, particularly with his connection to The Titanic) to put out a video explaining the technical differences between the sub he uses when diving versus what these people were using)
It seems like that analysis would be better from a 3rd party. Given that 4 of the people onboard were paying passengers trusting the company with whom they contracted (not total innocents but certainly more innocent than, say, a test pilot signing up for a good chance at death in the interest of science and country), it seems like it would be hard to say "Hi I'm James Cameron and here's all the reasons I lived through deeper dives and your family didn't. Of course I didn't say anything previously though."


Sorry, how is James Cameron not a 3rd party in this situation?

Because he is an English major who didn't finish college?

Smart guy....but he didn't build those subs. He was the money.


Yeah I get you, not making any arguments to the contrary. He's still a 3rd party and he's basically the face of this technology for the world, particularly because of his fascination with the Titanic.

I'm for him having an actual engineer explain the super technical design issues, but him being the main face in the video will get way more engagement than anyone else putting out a similar video.

Fair enough.
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Reddit is saying that a group of explorers have said within a whatsapp group chat that the debris found is part of the tail piece and a skid from the sub. Per interview with one of them on SkyNews.
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lunchbox said:

Sky News reporting the debris found is the landing frame and rear cover from the submerisble.

https://news.sky.com/story/titanic-submarine-missing-live-updates-submersible-cannot-be-opened-from-inside-time-running-out-on-oxygen-supply-waiver-mentions-death-three-times-12905748
"It means the hull hasn't yet been found but two very important parts of the whole system have been discovered and that would not be found unless its fragmented," he added.



But wasn't it able to jettison the landing frame and stuff in case of a catastrophic event to surface?
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Imploded at 3200 meters on the way down. Acoustic sources picked it up
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The rear cover that they are referring to is likely the rear titanium hub.
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"Waiver mentions 'death' three times."

Have you ever read the manual for a bicycle?

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Guitarsoup said:

lunchbox said:

Sky News reporting the debris found is the landing frame and rear cover from the submerisble.

https://news.sky.com/story/titanic-submarine-missing-live-updates-submersible-cannot-be-opened-from-inside-time-running-out-on-oxygen-supply-waiver-mentions-death-three-times-12905748
"It means the hull hasn't yet been found but two very important parts of the whole system have been discovered and that would not be found unless its fragmented," he added.



But wasn't it able to jettison the landing frame and stuff in case of a catastrophic event to surface?
Landing frame, yes. Rear cover of the submersible sounds catastrophic.
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AgsOnDeck said:

My theory?

The underwater vehicle submerged on Sunday morning (18 June) and its support vessel lost contact with it about an hour and 45 minutes later.

After almost 2 hours submerging, the submarine imploded causing a loss of communication. So hopefully it was a quick death.

My question is would there be any body parts or existence of them 4-5 days later at the bottom of the sea?
Nothing.

If they had an explosive implosion, basically their bodies vaporized in about a half second and then the fire was put out by the water rushing in at 5500psi.
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What really attracted me to this was the idea of these people stuck down there in a tube. What a helpless feeling. We were all hoping for a rescue, but if it collapsed and imploded..they probably didn't know and didn't suffer.
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Squadron7 said:

"Waiver mentions 'death' three times."

Have you ever read the manual for a bicycle?


One of the interviews of a previous "tourist" said they were very clear about the chance of death.
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BQ78 said:

Imploded at 3200 meters on the way down. Acoustic sources picked it up
I've seen this reported elsewhere around the same time as signal loss, but haven't seen anything concrete to back it up. You posting it gives it credence.
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No Spin Ag said:

lunchbox said:

Sky News reporting the debris found is the landing frame and rear cover from the submerisble.


That's pretty much it for the people in there, isn't it?


There was no hope for them. They've most likely been dead since Sunday.
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BQ78 said:

Imploded at 3200 meters on the way down. Acoustic sources picked it up

Texags. Still knows things.
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BQ78 said:

Imploded at 3200 meters on the way down. Acoustic sources picked it up

Where are you seeing that?
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Pretty sad. The ocean is a terrifying enough place to be on the surface, let alone 12,000 or whatever feet deep, in some sort of home built sub. Maybe this will serve as a useful warning to others.
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lunchbox said:

BQ78 said:

Imploded at 3200 meters on the way down. Acoustic sources picked it up
I've seen this reported elsewhere around the same time as signal loss, but haven't seen anything concrete to back it up. You posting it gives it credence.

BQ78 has great intel in this area. Put it to bed.
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aginlakeway said:

BQ78 said:

Imploded at 3200 meters on the way down. Acoustic sources picked it up

Where are you seeing that?



He was on the submersible
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FTAG 2000 said:

lunchbox said:

BQ78 said:

Imploded at 3200 meters on the way down. Acoustic sources picked it up
I've seen this reported elsewhere around the same time as signal loss, but haven't seen anything concrete to back it up. You posting it gives it credence.

BQ78 has great intel in this area. Put it to bed.
"I'm sure that won't make a bit of difference for those of you who enjoy a baseless rage over the decisions of a few teenagers."
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The Coast Guard told us on Monday morning
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aginlakeway said:

BQ78 said:

Imploded at 3200 meters on the way down. Acoustic sources picked it up

Where are you seeing that?

He's in a related industry. He had lots of information early in the thread. I believe his company was contacted about the search.
 
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