Deep sea submersible with up to five passengers and crew missing on Titanic wreck dive

[Anti Federalist]

https://twitter.com/iamyesyouareno/status/1671512232109244417

 

[luctor-et-emergo]

The ones I have worked with had buoyancy compensation weights that were self releasing via mechanical means.

In a worse case scenario, assuming the pressure hull was not flooded, when the weight settled on the sea floor it would toggle self-releasing hooks that would disconnect the weight from the ROV and allow it to re-float to the surface.

Hope these people thought of a system where the weight is released in case of a power loss. I guess we'll find out. Not that hard to do, I thought of it many years ago when I designed a personal sub as a fun exercise. Have both electrical, in case of failed electrical and manual control over the same drop weight... Low risk.

 

[acptulsa]

https://twitter.com/iamyesyouareno/status/1671512232109244417

Fifty-something year old white men couldn't provide inspiration? They probably could have commandeered every lifeboat on the Titanic, and left the women and children to sit and watch the water creep up on the orchestra stand...

Hope these people thought of a system where the weight is released in case of a power loss. I guess we'll find out. Not that hard to do, I thought of it many years ago when I designed a personal sub as a fun exercise. Have both electrical, in case of failed electrical and manual control over the same drop weight... Low risk.

Beats counting on the sea floor to be flat and smooth enough to press several levers simultaneously.

 

[sparebulb]

https://twitter.com/iamyesyouareno/status/1671512232109244417

How much do you want to bet that they didn't go with an experienced honkey because they knew that anybody with real experience would point out some things that they didn't want pointed out.

Things that would affect the bottom line, deadlines and safety.

 

[jmdrake]

Does she not know that two of the passengers were Pakistani, or does she think Pakistanis are white? I work with an Indian (Pakistanis are basically Indian but don't tell them or Indians that) who told me she was "white" based on some no longer used anthropological BS. Now averyone wants to be POCs or whatever.

 

[TheTexan]

Does she not know that two of the passengers were Pakistani, or does she think Pakistanis are white? I work with an Indian (Pakistanis are basically Indian but don't tell them or Indians that) who told me she was "white" based on some no longer used anthropological BS. Now averyone wants to be POCs or whatever.

Yea some think they are the true Aryan race lol

Some collect Nazi stuff but Hitler would have definitely thrown them into the camps imo

 

[jmdrake]

Yea some think they are the true Aryan race lol

Some collect Nazi stuff but Hitler would have definitely thrown them into the camps imo

You sure about that last bit?

 

[TheTexan]

You sure about that last bit?

I could be wrong, I certainly would have thrown them into camps but that's just me

 

[Anti Federalist]

How much do you want to bet that they didn't go with an experienced honkey because they knew that anybody with real experience would point out some things that they didn't want pointed out.

Things that would affect the bottom line, deadlines and safety.

That's precisley what happened.

Watch the video in post #12.

They started out hiring ex navy submariners.

When they started ticking off everything that was all wrong and would get people killed, they got fired for being boring old white men, hung up on like, facts 'n shit.

 

[Anti Federalist]

Does she not know that two of the passengers were Pakistani, or does she think Pakistanis are white? I work with an Indian (Pakistanis are basically Indian but don't tell them or Indians that) who told me she was "white" based on some no longer used anthropological BS. Now averyone wants to be POCs or whatever.

God that made me laugh.

I'm sure that she has no clue, assuming that twatter is from a real person, I'm sure she thinks that is nothing but "shit white people do".

Frustrating...most people will tell you, to this day, that the Branch Davidians that were incinerated by the government at Waco, were a bunch of white supremacists.

Watch the look on the faces when you tell them roughly half of everybody at Waco was a colored person, and that David Koresh's "right hand man" chief confidant, negotiator and "consigliere" was this man, Douglas Wayne Martin.

 

[sparebulb]

You sure about that last bit?

I haven't seen the video yet, but I'll watch it tonight.

True story: My dad was in Europe in WW2 and made it into Germany. He met, of all things, a black American woman who was VERY indifferent about being "liberated" by the 'murikans.

She worked as a nanny or some such thing there for several years and when asked how she was treated by the mean not-sees, she said that she was treated no differently than she was in the US.

On a side note, he traveled back to the US on a liberty ship, the Booker T Washington. It had a mostly negro crew and Master. They don't get much notoriety, but they served in both theaters and performed well.

I owe my very existence, in part, to the competency of these men.

Our society has nothing but seething contempt for competency.

 

[unknown]

I'm assuming they all had life vests?

Any other safety equipment, inflatable devices, individual oxygen supplies etc?

 

[RJB]

I'm assuming they all had life vests?

Any other safety equipment, inflatable devices, individual oxygen supplies etc?

At two miles beneath the sea, a life vest is worth as much as a parachute on the moon. They are bolted inside. The hatch can only be open from the outside. Something that would float them to the top would have been good. Also with the clientele paying $250,000 a piece, I am surprise they don't have a $10 GPS locator.

 

[RJB]

I'm curious about a GPS. Does it work at that deep? I mean scientists can tag sharks so that they can pinpoint them within a few feet. For the amount of money they pay, I am surprised how shoddy this how operation is.

 

[acptulsa]

I'm assuming they all had life vests?

Any other safety equipment, inflatable devices, individual oxygen supplies etc?

The Titanic's too deep for that. If the thing doesn't bob up quite a ways, opening a hatch would crush their bodies.

I'm curious about a GPS. Does it work at that deep? I mean scientists can tag sharks so that they can pinpoint them within a few feet. For the amount of money they pay, I am surprised how shoddy this how operation is.

It would require a lot of power. There's a lot of water between it and that satellite. Sharks don't go anywhere near that deep.

https://twitter.com/XRP_Tiffany/status/1671601100556992512

 

[RJB]

I'm in a group with a very dark sense of humor (I do write horror novels after all) This was posted there.

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There's a YouTube Oxygen Countdown Live Stream!
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(Link in comments!)

 

[Anti Federalist]

Our society has nothing but seething contempt for competency.

Competency is nothing but a dog whistle for white, cisgender, patriarchal supremacy, racism, sexism and homophobia.

 

[Anti Federalist]

I'm curious about a GPS. Does it work at that deep? I mean scientists can tag sharks so that they can pinpoint them within a few feet. For the amount of money they pay, I am surprised how shoddy this how operation is.

No.

About 3 meters of water block all GPS signals.

That's why naval subs have ELF (extremely low frequency) transceivers.

The lower the frequency of a radio wave, the more it can bend, skip, propagate through water, rock, air, you name it.

The problems are: they require hug antennas, they consume a fuck ton of power and the narrow bandwidth makes everything very slow.

Too slow for speech, everything is coded.

 

[Anti Federalist]

Let me take a minute to set politics and technological quarrels aside, and reflect for a minute that five people have more than likely suffered a horrifying death at sea.

May Almighty God the Father have mercy on their souls and welcome them into his heavenly home.



Eternal Father, strong to save,
Whose arm does bind the restless wave,

Who bids the mighty ocean deep
Its own appointed limits keep;

O hear us when we cry to Thee
For those in peril on the sea.

 

[jmdrake]

No.

About 3 meters of water block all GPS signals.

That's why naval subs have ELF (extremely low frequency) transceivers.

The lower the frequency of a radio wave, the more it can bend, skip, propagate through water, rock, air, you name it.

The problems are: they require hug antennas, they consume a $#@! ton of power and the narrow bandwidth makes everything very slow.

Too slow for speech, everything is coded.

I had a PC submarine game in the 1990s (Seawolf I think) that had a teletype ELF thingamabob. And I'm thinking that's the closest I'll get to a submarine.