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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/t...newfoundland-canada/
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What a gruesome way to die. | |||
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The media use the terms submarine and submersible loosely. This is a submersible, not a submarine. A submersible is incapable of operating independently of the mother ship. Apparently, they have lost touch with a submersible before, and then contact was restored. | |||
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Thanks for pointing out that distinction, P*D. I didn't catch that initially.
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Would it be naive of me to ask why the submersible was not physically tethered to the mother ship? OK, I’ll slink away now.
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Tourists? I used to have only positive thoughts about tourists. I knew a trip to Hawaii was a once in a lifetime experience for many of them. I didn't want them to be disappointed. I began to realize most of them where either dumb or thought they were visiting a kind of jungle Disney World. I loathed them after about fifteen years. The couple who dead stopped in the middle of a 35 mph road to read a map causing me to wreck my Honda were the last straw. Don't get me wrong. I hope they are rescued. I just think people should stop this **** of vacationing at the bottom of the sea and blabbing about sending Bugattis to space. There's a reason Mt. Everest is littered with dead bodies. | |||
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That is much too rational for this world.
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Same question I asked. I can't imagine why anyone would get on one otherwise. Apparently it would not be such a gruesome way to die, but instantaneous if it imploded. It's like 5,200 PSI at that depth. If any leak at all occurred, it would crumple like tinfoil.
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I'm thinking it's at least in part because the Titanic is 13,000 feet down. That's a lot of tether. Not looking too good for the crew right now. Update: https://apnews.com/article/tit...d9f1e8d262dc7ce0135e
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That's what I was thinking. It would be very heavy and bulky.
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Best case: they're bobbing on the surface undetected (so far). Probable case: explosive compression, over in an instant. Worst case: immobile at the bottom, running out of air, and no one could likely rescue them even in the unlikely event the they pinged on a sonar scan. | |||
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National Geographic 6 questions on recovering the submersible. possibilities I can see the page from that URL. Hope it works for you
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Says it's premium content. Reader view doesn't work. 
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"If Titan is at the bottom of the ocean, how would they get people out? First, you need a vessel that can also travel to the extreme depths around Titanic—and there’s very few of them on the planet. Even if there were a submarine capable of traveling to the area, there would be no way to transfer passengers from Titan to the rescue sub—because the submersible has no hatch. The vessel’s novel carbon fiber composite and titanium structure was designed to withstand the extreme pressure of the Titanic environment, but the design requires the passengers to be literally “drilled shut” into the craft from outside. Any recovery of people would need to be done at the surface. So another possibility is that a non-crewed submersible, like an ROV, or remotely operated vehicle, can somehow secure Titan on the seafloor and bring it to the surface."
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How absolutely horrifying!
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