New assets arrive in search for OceanGate Titan sub after Canadians pick up 'underwater noises'

FOX News ^ | Last Update June 21, 2023 10:43am ET | Michael Ruiz

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I imagine heat also comes from those same, overworked, batteries

Batteries?

Lithium ion batteries?

[desertsolitaire]

Tragedy + Time = Comedy.
Too Soon?

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Even a ‘experimental’ aircraft or a ‘homemade’ automobile will require some type of certification by an authority...................

Really? Who has the authority to issue certification not in their own airspace or national waters?

The home brew automobile that a buncha farm kids cobbled together needs no busybody official certification if it never leaves the ranch.

[Ikemeister]

And why on Earth would they apparently not have an ocean locator beacon or transmitter to turn on to aid in rescue,

Not a submariner or anything close to it - but communicating with subs, even at a deep depth of 1000 feet, needs very low frequency radio waves. I expect its a speciality, very costly system with limited commercial/public practicality.

and this thing is at 13,000 feet.

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The Navy once had ELF systems that could penetrate seawater to 1000 ft or so, but shut them down in 2004. They operated on a frequency of 60 hz where the wavelength is something like 2500 miles. The Navy still maintains VLF stations that transmit between 14-60 khz. One I know of was in Cutler, Me. and operated on 24 khz. They use a 50 baud digital transmission mode and are one way transmissions. Nuclear subs need to be at or close periscope depth to receive the transmissions or else trail a LONG wire antenna attached to a buoy. The plot of the movie movie Crimson Tide involves the malfunction of the sub’s VLF system to receive launch orders. A deep submersible would have no capabilities to receive or transmit at any depth approaching 2.5 miles.

[Hootowl99]

Well said…. Remote to impossible to make a rescue in the available time.

[1Old Pro]

Three new vessels arrived "on-scene"

Recovery vessels

[1Old Pro]

I haven’t heard whether the ‘banging noises’ have stopped or not....

Certainly not long enough for an interceding news report on the Hunter Biden sweetheart deal.

[mware]

They did say that they do have have an apparatus that can covert CO2 to O2, but I believe that was part of the original 96 hour calculation.

[mware]

They did say that they do have have an apparatus that can covert CO2 to O2, but I believe that was part of the original 96 hour calculation.

[SkyDancer]

Why didn’t that thing have a transponder or an emergency pinging device?

[1Old Pro]

Why didn’t that thing have a transponder or an emergency pinging device?

Unbelievable

[NorthMountain]

I read the CEO had said that spending excessively on safety is a waste at some point; that if you really want to be safe, stay home in bed.

That is, of course, absolutely correct. OTOH, spending inadequately on safety is also a waste ...

[Red Badger]

This is why:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4162422/posts

[Red Badger]

Even a balloon would have at least been sighted..................

[SkyDancer]

Figures. I’ll bet he recommended having a transponder or pinging device and was voted down as being hysterical over how safe the submersible was.

[Red Badger]

Reminds me of the de Havilland Comet for some reason................

[StormEye]

" The Navy recovered a Seahawk helicopter from 3.6 miles."

But how long did it take the Navy to find it
bring it to the surface?

[SkyDancer]

And where is MH370? A 777 just disappears?

[Red Badger]

Well, Don Lemon thinks it went into a Black Hole.................He should know........He’s an expert on Black Holes.....................

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Did the Titan have square windows?