Hopefully a good outcome ahead.
Sub named Titan.
its whatever floats your boat
The construction of this submersible does seem to be somewhat "Heath Robinson" in character. Apart from the Hull itself, which was, I believe designed/constructed with input from NASA and Boeing, the control/communication systems look vulnerable to failure. Which leads me to think that a system breakdown is more likely than a breach of the hull. If so, the crew are likely to saty alive until the oxygen runs out. Awful to comtemplate.
its the same setup they have in the red sea, if there is an accident the tracker boat aint going to do much more than pick up those that escape
you know its a wee bit sketchy when you go on it
i mean its 1,000,000 times safer than going to the titanic
When I went on the Tenerife submarine a tracker boat followed behind, and a professional diver jumped in from it with food to encourage the fish.
I would have thought the same thing until I watched the video Miamee embedded a while ago. I don't think Camping World have many deep sea emergency beacons in stock normally.
The whole thing from beginning to end is just so bizarre. I sort of understand touring to the edge of space, and seeing the whole world beneath you and how it looks against the sun and moon etc. But to pay 250k to go out into a tiny tank and sink to the bottom of the ocean to barely see a shipwreck that no one would even really know much about if it weren't for James Cameron's decent movie making abilities is just beyond me.
Actually James Cameron will probably be consulted on this believe it or not. He was brought in as a consultant during the oil spill disaster in the gulf of Mexico in 2010.
lose power drift into rocks, crack window, death
😱😱😱
Hard to know if chancing the sharks would be a better bet!
you would surely assume they would have some emergency beacon for that exact scenario as the comms used for the underwater wouldnt work
people have died in the exact same setup in the red sea
What an absolutely nightmarish scenario. Unless the craft sprung a leak and death was instantaneous;
Either on the ocean floor, in darkness, counting the minutes until the oxygen runs out
or
Stuck inside the vessel, on the surface, somewhere in the vastness of the Atlantic, unable to communicate, unable to open the hatch, watching the clock run down as the air is used up. But clinging to the hope that the rescuers spot you.
As they should be. Tourism at those depths is just madness but some folks will forever be intrigued I guess.
I’ve done this real (Finnish built & certified) sub trip in Canaries, decent big windows, doesn’t go deep and designed to be easily retrievable.
people have died on tourist yellow subs
theres no room for error no escape
not its first dive
I don't think it was it's first trip down, no.
Play stupid games win stupid prizes. These are probably the same people who pay huge money to stand in a queue at the top of Mount Everest.
That video is astonishing. Reminds me of some contraption a couple of overenthusiastic & “carefree” tech heads would put together with a raspberry pi & some discarded parts. The pax signed their lives away, I’m afraid.
a million quid per dive doesn't seem that bad
I mean if it cost say 50 per day to run the support ship, that would seem excessive no? probably less than 20k
I'm not sure either would be preferable but as someone mentioned previously and based on how quickly they lost the vessel. I'd say they went down and are likely lost to us.
Any sort of communication device has to be on the sub. So if the sub gets destroyed then all back ups also go down.
I haven't read the links, and don't want to - but had this thing been down to that depth before or was it its first dive for real? (I'm tempted to use another, more familiar phrase but I won't).
Looking at the videos of the sub I'd see no joy in going down to look at a wreck through a tiny window that will no doubt be fogged of masked with sand. Kind of reminds me of those glass bottom boats on holidays, not exactly what you envisaged. 🤷♂️
its under 1k of water, how else do you think they should communicate?
I’d actually consider that worse. Bobbing around in the ocean, not able to open the hatch, slowly suffocating.
nope. I’d prefer a pressure related incident, all over before you knew something was wrong
Although people have commented on the $250,000 per passenger, does anyone else find that ridiculously cheap?
How many paying passengers per dive, 3?
So the submersible and the support vessel all have to be funded by less than a million dollars? Something doesn't add up.
you would have to say this carry on is beyond stupid right?
Few of these type vehicles around and have been a lot deeper 10km but presumably a lot better built and specced .Chinese government machine
Weird how all communication is lost ,doesn't seem right. I know communication is difficult but I'd have assumed there was failsafe systems , maybe not
A very sad incident the only hope would be as they suggest the sub has resurfaced and is adrift at sea.
A literal needle in a hay stack to try recover at that depth.
id wager at least 20 yoyos that the failure point wont be the off the shelf controller or light
in fact they might be the only certified things on the sub
it will be the items not off the shelf items
its not like the light or controller would be under any undue pressure
That controller is fine for messing on a computer game in your front room. A sticky button or a minor electrical noise or signal issues wont be noticed.
Not for when your whole life depends on it to control a submarine at crush depth.
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