News & Events Missing Titanic tourist submarine

[Bluelegs]

I don’t blame the submarine as much as I blame deep water…

Yeh but mate, deep water isn’t sentient, it didn’t make a conscious decision to * with your comms.

You know that s**t is hairy 3m deep let alone 4kms deep. Work that s**t out before you go and if you go and it doesn’t work the first time, fix it.

That’s right up there with one of the dumbest things I’ve ever read.

It's like saying after a plane crash: I don't blame the plane so much as I blame gravity.

 

[faible]

I don’t blame the submarine as much as I blame deep water…

Yeh but mate, deep water isn’t sentient, it didn’t make a conscious decision to * with your comms.

You know that s**t is hairy 3m deep let alone 4kms deep. Work that s**t out before you go and if you go and it doesn’t work the first time, fix it.

That’s right up there with one of the dumbest things I’ve ever read.

This quote from that twitter thread nails it;

Once you see how the Deepsea Challenger's engineers were working on "when X fails..." instead of "IF X fails..." you start to recognise how every single mechanism had backups for days.

Deepsea Challenger was built properly, with redundancy on redundancy and checking each and every part of the build to ensure it was capable of withstanding the pressure. Challenger Deep is ~11km below sea level, the materials tested showed that it should handle ~ 21,000 psi or around 14km below sea level. That's a lot of margin for error built in.

The Titanic is around 3800m or ~ 5,500 psi of pressure for comparison, and (according to Wikipedia) WW2 U-Boats would implode at around 280m below sea level or 'only' 411 psi. This stuff is just so extreme yet it seems like corners were cut everywhere.

 

[Royces Hart]

Two queries that I have here.

They’re saying the bodies might not be recovered, it’s morbid but would there actually be anything to recover? I imagine the pressure and rapid implosion wouldn’t leave much of the ship let alone a body?

Here’s what happened to human bodies at significant depth previously, it’s a grisly read

Byford Dolphin - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[ElectricG]

Small mercy

 

[MP_]

Here’s what happened to human bodies at significant depth previously, it’s a grisly read

Byford Dolphin - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

wow that is an extremely horrendous way to go

 

[RU_]

You would assume that in the crush event, all of the video of exactly what went wrong would be destroyed as well. Will never know what actually occurred; Did sealife attack it? Did the window give way causing the crush event? Did the vessel hit the titanic and implode?

So many questions.

 

[Strange Cat]

The coast guard that got interviewed never confirmed it was consistent or 30 minutes apart either.

There was a sound years ago now (Google the bloop) that people swore was chtulu, turns out it was most likely an echo from a cracking iceberg.

You cannot emphasize it enough, we know NOTHING about the deep ocean.

The mighty old one will awake one day you heathen

 

[faible]

Did sealife attack it?

Don't mess with Cthulhu

 

[Strange Cat]

Anyone know how many trips this sub made to Titanic?

4 trial runs testing, each test the communication was lost everytime with the last trial run the power was lost and they went missing for two hours…staggered that it was even allowed to go ahead or wasn’t picked up by research prior to the run

I think they only tested that depth once and had signs of hull cracking…unsure of that bit

 

[peternorth]

Is this event interesting because it

• involves very wealthy individuals
• the titanic
• the ocean

 

[peternorth]

Don't mess with Cthulhu

Amen. We in THEIR world. We eat THEIR inhabitants (fish, squid, octopus etc). We must be better. The documentary Aquaman showed us, we are surface dewelers, we are the enemy

 

[serial_thrilla]

There will 100% be a movie about this in 3-5 years. Whether they survive or not will dictate the genre.

The answer is: Thriller/Horror in the same vein as Open Water.

 

[kaiserchief13]

4 trial runs testing, each test the communication was lost everytime with the last trial run the power was lost and they went missing for two hours…staggered that it was even allowed to go ahead or wasn’t picked up by research prior to the run

I think they only tested that depth once and had signs of hull cracking…unsure of that bit

Wow....why would any customer pay money for that? I thought this would have been like the 50th time it took people down there or something.....

 

[Kram]

Is this event interesting because it

• involves very wealthy individuals
• the titanic
• the ocean

2 and 3 plus the sheer incompetence of the company and equipment.

Couldn't care less how well off the victims were.

 

[peternorth]

2 and 3 plus the sheer incompetence of the company and equipment.

Couldn't care less how well off the victims were.

good number 4

 

[Gralin]

So this was pretty much known by the Navy from the start it seems

Titanic sub search: US Navy detected implosion sounds after sub lost contact

The US Coast Guard are said to have used the information to narrow the search area.

www.bbc.com

 

[por_please_ya]

This is an interesting thread that highlights what a suicide mission this trip was

Finally read this. WOW. Titan was an accident waiting to happen. I'm surprised it hadn't imploded sooner to be honest. Highly recommend this tweet thread. A great summary.

 

[HirdsTheWord]

jesus what a way to go.

wonder what the pressure 3km down does to a human body. Would be over quickly i imagine.

 

[Gralin]

jesus what a way to go.

wonder what the pressure 3km down does to a human body. Would be over quickly i imagine.

if it imploded they would have been dead before they realised what was happening

 

[peternorth]

jesus what a way to go.

wonder what the pressure 3km down does to a human body. Would be over quickly i imagine.

i damn hope so

 

[peternorth]

The robot Victor 6000 was deployed in an attempt to release the felled sub.
Today Victor (Wembanyama) was picked no 1 in the nba draft.

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[MP_]

The robot Victor 6000 was deployed in an attempt to release the felled sub.
Today Victor (Wembanyama) was picked no 1 in the nba draft.

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have you seen the size of his hands, he could have grabbed the sub and pulled it out himself

 

[Sqotty from office works]

jesus what a way to go.

wonder what the pressure 3km down does to a human body. Would be over quickly i imagine.

It squashes you to about 1 centremetre.
All liquid which is most of your body atomises and dissipates within a millisecond.
The bone goes to dust in the same amount of time.
Cool way to go, all over in a millisecond.
Happy wife with money and clarity to continue on the journey.

 

[MP_]

jesus what a way to go.

wonder what the pressure 3km down does to a human body. Would be over quickly i imagine.

Spoiler

someone posted a wiki link about a diving bell accident and what it did to the bodies, gruesome stuff. The human blood boiled, bodies were disembowelled and sprayed some 10 metres away, the pressure sucked bodies through 60cm openings.

 

[peternorth]

have you seen the size of his hands, he could have grabbed the sub and pulled it out himself

he's like a kraken (continuing the oceanic theme)