News Titanic Tours Submersible missing in atlantic ocean

[Yoel Bromero]

Pressure is no joke, I hope this has a happy ending but I can't imagine how

 

[HUGHPHUG]

This is like Julian Sands but under water, and none of them kept an amputee in a box

 

[Xuh]

this has got to be #1 on the list of 'pointless ways for rich people to die'?

at least blowing up trying to get into space (which hasn't happened to tourists...yet) kinda 'makes sense'.

 

[William Huggins]

How long is appropriate before trips start being made to see the remnants of this disaster?

I heard the guy that designed it, has a grandson...........

 

[Iron Mang]

Attention Sherdog:
You seein' this shit?

wait........






wait......

Nope. We missed all those details!

 

[Iron Mang]

Yeah, so there is the pilot, the CEO, the billionaire, and a Pakistani guy that brought along his teenage son. I feel the worst for the dad and son, especially since Father's Day just rolled around.

 

[deucesarewild]

UK billionaire confirmed to be on board. How long can people survive in those things before running out of air?

There is something of ancient Greek punishment for one's ostentatious hubris in all of this.

 

[AGGAMEMNON66]

My guess is they will be found intact but too late to save them. If there was an SOS I’d guess something simply malfunctioned on them and they’re stuck. Very few worse ways to go.. surprised there’s no ‘black box’ type of signaling device hooked up to this thing as an emergency precaution.


Crazy risk involved in general doing this sort of stuff as the Titanic is sunk in one of the deepest parts of that ocean possible.

 

[Doughie99]

I just can’t see why there’s not some kind of homing beacon on this thing. Would it not work that far down?

E.P.I.R.B is standard equipment for extreme mariners and mountaineers and explorers and such like. Many sailing vessels and yachts have water-activated larger versions of E.P.I.R.B. that get released automatically if a boat sinks or capsizes -- the salt water dissolves something and it floats and starts broadcasting latitude and longitude. I guess it broadcasts lat. and long. via a satellite connection cos it HAS to work anywhere.
So...it cannot work underwater as EPIRB will require line-of-si\ght with geostationary comms satellites.

So I don't think that would work at these depths -- i think the radio signals just wouldn't transmit. Same reason it cannot get GPS co-ords down there - that too requires line-of-sight with at least 3 or 4 GPS satellites. Because apparently there's no VOICE radio comms usable with the sub and so i guess it just doesn't work using radio signals thru 2.5miles of seawater.

 

[Doughie99]

Maybe it had an RV toilet seeing as some of it was built with stuff from camping world. Seriously though, on top of being scared and panicked they have to deal with waste too.

it does have a small toilet in there. Very basic, but....the owner Stockton Rush showed that in a youtube video someone linked earlier in this thread.

 

[RollSonnenRoll]

E.P.I.R.B is standard equipment for extreme mariners and mountaineers and explorers and such like. Many sailing vessels and yachts have water-activated larger versions of E.P.I.R.B. that get released automatically if a boat sinks or capsizes -- the salt water dissolves something and it floats and starts broadcasting latitude and longitude. I guess it broadcasts lat. and long. via a satellite connection cos it HAS to work anywhere.
So...it cannot work underwater as EPIRB will require line-of-si\ght with geostationary comms satellites.

So I don't think that would work at these depths -- i think the radio signals just wouldn't transmit. Same reason it cannot get GPS co-ords down there - that too requires line-of-sight with at least 3 or 4 GPS satellites. Because apparently there's no VOICE radio comms usable with the sub and so i guess it just doesn't work using radio signals thru 2.5miles of seawater.

Thanks

There’s an inherent risk with the “spirit of adventure” but goddamn, this thing seems to have zero safety precautions to it whatsoever

 

[Doughie99]

Thanks

There’s an inherent risk with the “spirit of adventure” but goddamn, this thing seems to have zero safety precautions to it whatsoever

yeah generally extreme exploration systems / vehicles have "redundant systems" built in. Meaning that anything super-critical has a back-up essentially or twin systems so if 1 fails or is destroyed there's the 2nd system to keep things on track. I don't think this submersible was well engineered or designed, from what I can see which is really inexcusable when you have 5 lives depending on it working fine and keeping them alive.
I'd guess they had a complete power failure or a mechanical failure of the steering fans (there are fans which steer it around) or similar.
If it sprung a leak (material structural failure) then they're all dead for sure.

i'm sure they'll find it -- it won't be THAT hard as they know where it was heading, but .....will they find it by Thursday and can they bring it to surface and save everyone..... I very much doubt it. If the hull was breached there will be nothing much left of the 5 people except sticky red goo, completely pulverized.

 

[Yoel Bromero]

Thanks

There’s an inherent risk with the “spirit of adventure” but goddamn, this thing seems to have zero safety precautions to it whatsoever

It has one button inside it lol

Homeboy looked around at other subs and just thought they were overthinking it and overspending with all those safety features. Everyone knows top notch submarine building equipment can be found in most camping stores.

 

[cooks1]

Pressure is no joke, I hope this has a happy ending but I can't imagine how

And that was at 350 feet. Imagine 13000 ft. That helmet would come up the size of a golf ball.

 

[syct23]

So say this little submarine lost power and happened to bellyflop right on top of the Titanic, would their be some kind of fine implemented on the company?

like the damaging of a historical artifact or something..? Or just bad luck

 

[syct23]

And that was at 350 feet. Imagine 13000 ft. That helmet would come up the size of a golf ball.

Always think of that scene in The Abyss, when Reese goes over the cliff…

 

[DragRacer]

You can’t inflate anything at that depth due to tremendous pressure differential.

Even if the tank of compressed air were contained inside the hull of the submarine, there would need to be either a manual valve or a solenoid to open to release the air into whatever bladder or air bag that was attached to a lift cable.

The exterior pressure of the water would simply push through the valve as soon at it were opened, filling the internal air tank immediately with water and exploding it.

I think air balloons would be unworkable at that depth due to the pressure....it just crushes everything that's not got a hull of inches of steel alloy or titanium alloy.
plus.....when the sub rose the massive pressure drop when rising would burst any air balloon on the way up (even if it were possible to inflate them at 2.5miles down, which it would not be possible anyway).
A bit like a divers lungs would burst IF they do not exhale slowly on the way up from depth. Plus attaching air balloons ...... very hard.
Air balloons work well at normal diving depths though.

 

[cooks1]

yeah generally extreme exploration systems / vehicles have "redundant systems" built in. Meaning that anything super-critical has a back-up essentially or twin systems so if 1 fails or is destroyed there's the 2nd system to keep things on track. I don't think this submersible was well engineered or designed, from what I can see which is really inexcusable when you have 5 lives depending on it working fine and keeping them alive.
I'd guess they had a complete power failure or a mechanical failure of the steering fans (there are fans which steer it around) or similar.
If it sprung a leak (material structural failure) then they're all dead for sure.

i'm sure they'll find it -- it won't be THAT hard as they know where it was heading, but .....will they find it by Thursday and can they bring it to surface and save everyone..... I very much doubt it. If the hull was breached there will be nothing much left of the 5 people except sticky red goo, completely pulverized.

If the hull breached they may never find it. It would be mashed to the size of a garbage can at that pressure and depth.

I hope they turn up OK. But if not, I prophesize some pretty creative DIY Halloween costumes this October.

 

[cincymma79]

Me after three days trapped at the bottom of the ocean

I’ve got a sinking feeling about this

everyone else

goddamn it that’s still not funny

 

[K1levelgrappler]

I’m guessing catastrophic hull failure and they all got instantly pulped. Probably that view port they cheaped out on finally packed it in. I hope that’s it cuz the alternatives are worse. If they’re actually alive down there waiting to run out of air the psychological terror must be unimaginable.