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The Titan 4000M Submersible

EddMarkStarr said:
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The only thing I can compare Titanic's depth to is unimaginable!
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A great chart for showing how incomprehensibly deep the Titanic is.
 
I don't recall seeing anything about their food, or energy food supply. Is that why they took the 19yo along? Shanghai chicken?
 
eddielee said:
Even if it had an escape pod feature, in this instance, I doubt it would do any good. Of course, I would rejoice to hear that they are found safe and floating on the surface.
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A little talked about scenario is the craft having surfaced, but not being found, in which the men are suffocated while bobbing about at the surface, a needless horror if there was no possible emergency venting or egress design. Imagine the nightmare of having made it up from 2.5 miles down and then slowly sweat and die in a carbon fiber tin can.

The hubris of this venture is as astounding as the Titanic's itself. Over 100 years later, the endemic folly of both mankind and the uber rich is telling.

A previous passenger was being interviewed on NBC today, and when asked about the safety of the vessel kept returning to the protocol orientation that the company gave passengers on the way to the site, which seemed little more than reassurances that it was safe instead of actually having anything to make it safe beyond the dropping of ballasts to make it float. He seemed almost desperate to defend the company, the prudence of fellow billionaires, and the "scientific" exploration of these passengers, going to far as to claim they were not tourists. The fuck they weren't.

No one should die as these men likely have. That the leapt to their deaths is a testimony to the folly of man, and the proof that amassing riches does not require wisdom.
 
Kahaih said:
I don't recall seeing anything about their food, or energy food supply. Is that why they took the 19yo along? Shanghai chicken?
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Remarkably, the damned thing doesn't even have seats.

My guess is that eating within a few hours of descent is not permitted, as there is no toilet there, and any evacuation of the bowels would be more than odious.

All the empathy and sympathy for their likely demise reminds me again of how precarious the Mars mission is. Let a few astronauts perish horribly, and you will see a rapid quenching of the thirst for space and pioneering the untenable and hostile conditions of space.
 
/\ If I recall correctly, I read that there is a toilet of some sort behind a curtain at one end.

I'm not sure, though, I've kinda lost interest in the reckless affair and stopped reading the updates and such.
 
NotHardUp1 said:
Remarkably, the damned thing doesn't even have seats.

My guess is that eating within a few hours of descent is not permitted, as there is no toilet there, and any evacuation of the bowels would be more than odious.

All the empathy and sympathy for their likely demise reminds me again of how precarious the Mars mission is. Let a few astronauts perish horribly, and you will see a rapid quenching of the thirst for space and pioneering the untenable and hostile conditions of space.
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There's a remarkable similarity between going to Mars and diving to the ocean floor, both are totally alien environments. Every mistake costs lives.
 
Kahaih said:
/\ If I recall correctly, I read that there is a toilet of some sort behind a curtain at one end.

I'm not sure, though, I've kinda lost interest in the reckless affair and stopped reading the updates and such.
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I heard on the radio that the toilet was Ziploc bags.
 
jjonn3 said:
They think they have found a debris field that may be the Titan - hopefully for their sake the ship imploded - that would have been a lot easier than being trapped in the submersible as you slowly run out of air.
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I just read that. It also said debris is common near the Titanic area.
 
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Wokeness Did Not Doom the Titan Sub, No Matter What Conservatives Say

Conservatives are blaming wokeness for the missing Titan sub, but it's more likely the real culprit is poor design.
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There’s a very clear reason why the Titan sub was lost and is likely doomed: OceanGate fired their safety guy. David Lochridge was hired in 2015, but complained about the design of the submarine. Lochridge pointed out that the carbon fiber material used to build the hull was likely insufficient to withstand the pressure given how deep Rush wanted to go in the vessel. Submarine hulls are usually made with high-strength steel. Since the carbon fiber was an unusual choice, Lochridge wanted to put the hull through destructive testing to make sure it was safe, but this request was refused, with higher ups telling him it was impossible to perform tests like he wanted, according to CNN.

CNN spoke to another person at OceanGate who questioned the safety of the hull, who spoke to the outlet on terms of anonymity. He said that the hull was only five inches thick, when engineers wanted it to be seven inches thick.

Another point of failure Lochridge pointed out was the viewport. Though OceanGate bragged that the Titan sub had the “largest viewport of any deep diving submersible,” according to National World, The New Republic reported that the material used for the viewport was only certified for a depth of 1,300 meters. The water pressure is much greater at the 4,000 meters that OceanGate wanted to take the sub to, but the company allegedly refused to pay for a window that could withstand the pressure at that depth.
 
A Coast Guard spokesman said today that the Navy (I think) had picked up an explosion Sunday shortly after the sub fell out of contact. They transmitted that information and likely location to the searchers. It was all but certain that the searching vessels knew there was almost no chance that vessel was still intact after Sunday. But, such is man that we gave the very small chance an allowance to be true, and searched.
 
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