Posted on 06/21/2023 8:09:26 AM PDT by Red Badger
My thoughts as well. So they find it. Then what?
Good one. 👍
news about our corrupt DOJ and Hunter's sweetheart deal.
“So they may find it - but my understanding is, even the US Navy doesn’t have any ability to go and get it. At least not in any reasonable time-frame.”
The Navy recovered a Seahawk helicopter from 3.6 miles.
Even a ‘experimental’ aircraft or a ‘homemade’ automobile will require some type of certification by an authority...................
Do submersibles such as this generally have fittings for something like an emergency oxygen tether line, or emergency power line? Even when they have no escape hatch fitting for rescue through when the craft is immovable and deep underwater?
They do have CO2 scrubbers but they stop working when battery power dies. I imagine heat also comes from those same, overworked, batteries and I wonder how much redundancy was built into the life support? Sounds like they focused upon keeping costs to them, low by using off the shelf and inexpensive parts.
I think old-time submariners pounded metal on metal with tools agaianst steel hulls to make signal noises. How would that work with a carbon fiber hull? Could they find heavy enough metal object to clang together to bea heard outside the ship by potential rescuers?
And why on Earth would they apparently not have an ocean locator beacon or transmitter to turn on to aid in rescue, like the Epirbs that boaters can and should buy? Water activated and auto matic. SMH....
“Even a ‘experimental’ aircraft or a ‘homemade’ automobile will require some type of certification by an authority...................”
Only if it is operated in the enforcing jurisdiction.
This is the best video on the device that everyone is passing around.
The Titan Tragedy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dka29FSZac
I saw a video on TV where they tested what happened when an old time diving suit would lose pressure underwater.
The air was supplied from above through a tube.
Occasionally there would be a catastrophic failure and loss of air pressure, and they would find a good portion of the body crammed up inside the diving helmet.
This was at less than 200 feet.
This is 2 miles down.
That took a month.
This is likely going to be a sad ending.
Just like the spaceship that blew up before our eyes.
I'm sad for everyone.
7700+ psi. Nasty nasty stuff.
>>The Navy recovered a Seahawk helicopter from 3.6 miles.<<
How long after the helicopter sank?
True. I had a friend who ‘made’ a car from assorted parts and pieces he fabricated and he had to get the approval of the Florida Highway Patrol and DMV before he could get a plate.................
Don’t the unmanned submersibles have a tether attached to them? I would think that this mini sub would have had a line attached to it in case something went wrong with the sub. I guess I would be wrong. Hope they can pull off a miracle and rescue the people. I would hate to think how it would be watching people die for lack of oxygen.
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.
Even a balloon would suffice...................
Where is Dirk Pitt when you need him?
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