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RU_ said:
Do we know how many hours of oxygen it has left? 25 odd is my assumption.
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The reports I saw about 8 hours ago said 40 left so it’s probably closer to 30.

Although that’s assuming they’re not panicking and depleting it quicker (and that they’re not already dead from cold or crush)
 
phantom13 said:
Yep. It’s like 6% of the ocean floor has been accurately mapped, almost all of it close to shores.

We have a better map of the actual ******* universe than we do of the ocean floor. It is the literal unknown.
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The one benefit of mh370 going missing is they now have good mapping of that part of the Indian Ocean.
 

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RU_ said:
Do we know how many hours of oxygen it has left? 25 odd is my assumption.
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I think about 40 as of the last few hours. But if they are hyperventilating in there they will go through it a lot quicker.
 
When you read all the stuff about this sun and I guess it’s a lot of hearsay atm but how the hell was this thing even allowed to operate? Who oversees this type of thing, is there an international maritime safety board?
 
mr bagcroft said:
Why wouldnt it have a GPS or pinga or whatever that can be activated upon resurfacing if needed?
The thing seems a not very well thought out design and construct for something that is going into the equivalent of outer space.
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I read it did have some sort of communications and a Pinga. Both have gone silent.
 
Also in the time the titanic sunk the two halves were separated by 600m, imagine if this thing is still intact but just floating underneath, it could be a hundred miles away depending on currents.
 
MP_ said:
When you read all the stuff about this sun and I guess it’s a lot of hearsay atm but how the hell was this thing even allowed to operate? Who oversees this type of thing, is there an international maritime safety board?
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Seems like it’s so unique and leading edge that the regulations probably havent caught up yet, plus it would be insanely difficult to police it.

Surely this will lead to some pretty sweeping reforms, albeit too late.
 
MP_ said:
When you read all the stuff about this sun and I guess it’s a lot of hearsay atm but how the hell was this thing even allowed to operate? Who oversees this type of thing, is there an international maritime safety board?
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But But money, people will pay me hundreds of thousands to drop em to the bottom of the ocean.
There is no time for standards and red tape damnit!
 
DickieKnee said:
I read it did have some sort of communications and a Pinga. Both have gone silent.
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Comms yes, no locator from everything I’ve read (which is a lot) at the very least definitely no stand alone locator with its own power source (in the event the mains for the sub goes down).
 
DickieKnee said:
I read it did have some sort of communications and a Pinga. Both have gone silent.
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There was an article stating that at one stage this submarine only had one pinging device but it was recommended to have two, an acoustic one and a different sort. This trip it definitely had some sort of ping as its last ping was 1 hour and 45 minutes into the trip.
 
mr bagcroft said:
But But money, people will pay me hundreds of thousands to drop em to the bottom of the ocean.
There is no time for standards and red tape damnit!
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The tech and money needed to make a vehicle capable of doing that trip is pretty massive. An extra couple of grand of tens of thousands for a locator beacon and some rigging cable deal to launch a cable shouldn’t be a problem.
 

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mr bagcroft said:
But But money, people will pay me hundreds of thousands to drop em to the bottom of the ocean.
There is no time for standards and red tape damnit!
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Especially when they had a short break in weather to launch, wonder if all the safety checks were done,is going to be interesting to watch this unfold
 
Cyber_punk said:
I was reading somewhere yesterday the success rate was something like 1 in 5. Most of the time it turned back before it had the chance to get anywhere near the thing.
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Sounds pretty accurate, I remember when James Cameron went full Jacques Cousteau they basically lived above the wreck for 6 months for like 20 hours of footage, between weather and other various issues it’s insanely difficult to make it all work.
 
phantom13 said:
Sounds pretty accurate, I remember when James Cameron went full Jacques Cousteau they basically lived above the wreck for 6 months for like 20 hours of footage, between weather and other various issues it’s insanely difficult to make it all work.
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Wonder if this time the pressure (no pun) of having a billionaire on board to impress influenced them to try to get closer/deeper than they ever have? Probably saw it as a good investment chance.
 
ep2018 said:
I'd say there was a structural fault and the sub imploded, the eight or so hours they waited before calling for government help was so the company can get everything legal in order imo.
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Not sure that will help them.
I am smelling gross negligence with a family with billions behind them to take them down.
 
What is the deepest a nuclear submarine has gone?


The USS Dolphin (AGSS 555) is the world's deepest diving submarine, having set a depth record of over 900 meters shortly after its deployment in 1968 (although small submersibles have gone deeper). It is also the Navy's only remaining diesel-powered submarine, as all newer subs are nuclear powered.
 
So a pipe laying sub is in the area but that can only get to 3km deep and a French remote sub should arrive today and they can go 6k deep but it won’t be able to rescue anyone.
 
Jbudds said:
What is the deepest a nuclear submarine has gone?


The USS Dolphin (AGSS 555) is the world's deepest diving submarine, having set a depth record of over 900 meters shortly after its deployment in 1968 (although small submersibles have gone deeper). It is also the Navy's only remaining diesel-powered submarine, as all newer subs are nuclear powered.
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I'm assuming that even the subs we don't know about don't go that deep.
 
Cyber_punk said:
Wonder if this time the pressure (no pun) of having a billionaire on board to impress influenced them to try to get closer/deeper than they ever have? Probably saw it as a good investment chance.
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Jimmy C personally oversaw the whole titanic thing, no one has ever gotten closer and may never get closer.

James (a lot of people don’t know) is actually kind of a tech genius and basically got billions of dollars purely for his project.

Ultimately James was in charge and accepted no shortcuts he also knew his shit. These guys know about as much as you and I about this stuff, what could they have asked that the company couldn’t answer.
 
phantom13 said:
Comms yes, no locator from everything I’ve read (which is a lot) at the very least definitely no stand alone locator with its own power source (in the event the mains for the sub goes down).
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You'd think redundancy for any critical apparatus would be mandatory on a sub like this. Sadly it sounds like it was a deathtrap waiting to happen.
 

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