We all live in a yellow Submarine (or maybe not)

[MCN]

https://www.reuters.com/world/titanic-tourist-submersible-goes-missing-rescue-efforts-under-way-2023-06-19/

Rich folk missing in a Submarine exploring Titanic wreck.

$250000 per seat. I'm safe then.
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[Polarbear]

If I was stinking rich I'd rather do that than go into space.
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[MCN]

[Polarbear]

[Ste]

You're trapped on a submarine which has 96 hours of air for five people. When do you start reducing the number of people who're using the limited supply of air?

[M.C]

[stinkwheel]

Although apparently lost comms is pretty much standard. Low frequency deep sea radio waves are sketchy at best and they need to get a good enough signal through to translate into text for it to work at all.

Interesting to compare the resources being devoted to the rescue of five wealthy tourists compared to a trawler full of refugees off the Greek coast.

If it's on the bottom, might be a case of the only vehicle capable of rescuing it being itself?
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[The Artist]

It appears to be a single tube design and I wonder if there is any emergency ascent mechanism. If not, it seems like a massive oversight to not have an independent system that can lift it to the surface and trigger a locator beacon, regardless of structural integrity.

Apparently they are bolted in and it requires someone on the outside to remove the bolts for them to escape.

[MCN]

The Oceangate is a cobbled together vessel that uses a few repurposed components from other vessels.
The controls are very like X-Box game pad.

It has more than one emergency system to aid recovery.

Radio will not reach the seabed if its on the bottom.

On drilling rigs which operate in the same water depth 12000+ feet, comms with the Blow Out Preventer is made possible via a comms link. Umbilical a 6" dia cable that's rolled off and onto a massive 50' reel.

They have redundancy to control the BOP using ultrasonic transponders. Usually two incase one is lost. Continuous comms with the BOP is a priority. That prevents disasters like Deep Water Horizon.

I don't know if they have ultrasonic comms in the sub.

The US Navy have vessels that can easily reach a depth of 4k-5kft

The seabed around the wreck of the titanic is ove twice that depth.
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[Fat Angry Scotsman]

[Nobby the Bastard]

They may have oxygen for 96 hours but do they have toilet facilities?
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[Polarbear]

[Islander]

[Islander]

[Easy-X]

If it was me needing a shit that 96 would get halved in 15 mins
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[Ste]

Down to 40 hours of air now or 200 hours if you're resourceful.

[Nobby the Bastard]

If it's not surfaced by itself by now then it won't be doing so without outside help so knowing how it works at this point is a useless skill.
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[virus]

The director of marine operations of Oceangate (a former RN Engineer) got sacked after recommending they get a pressure test and safety cert before putting paying customers in an untested vessel.



Touring the wreck of the Titanic: $250,000

Joining the wreck of the Titanic forever: Priceless
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stinkwheel Well I just had my hands up a pigs fanny. Which makes your concerns pale into insignificance.

[stinkwheel]

Of course, it could be they can't find it because it's now the shape and size of a basketball.
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I did the 2010 Round Britain Rally on my 350 Bullet. 89 landmarks, 3 months, 9,500 miles.

[Islander]

[Nobby the Bastard]

At least it would be quick.
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[Islander]

[Polarbear]

[Bhud]

I've been told it's not a bad way to go, and peaceful, because there's a point at which you give up. Don't know how true that is. One guy (deep sea swimmer) who was rescued told me that he had visions of his kid appearing in front of him and calling him, and the next thing he knew was when he woke up, having been rescued by a couple of Germans. However, in that submersible, pressure is a factor. Maybe it was on the quicker side of deaths by drowning, by all involved.

[MCN]