Thanks SteveH.
Posted on 10/31/2022 5:56:05 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A 26-year-old mystery has finally been solved.
Divers have found a “dense” and thriving ecosystem just meters from where the Titanic debris was uncovered.
Almost 30 years ago, PH Nargeolet, a veteran pilot of the submersible Nautile and a renowned Titanic diver, discovered a puzzling object on sonar that was reading the area around the 1912 shipwreck.
Nargeolet then spent the better part of two decades thinking about the spot on the radar — spending endless nights wondering if what he saw was a shipwreck or geologic feature.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Swimming down 2,900 meters sounds like a new record to me! Was it free-diving, snorkeling, or SCUBA swimming?
Steve W. Ross, OceanGate’s chief scientist, explained how the discovery will “improve the way we think about biodiversity of the abyss.”
“unearth” sounds like the wrong word to use here.
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Free-diving. Dude is an epic stud.
Wow. For real? I did not think that Free Diving down to 2,900 meters was possible. But I hasten to say, I am not up on these things, and have heard our military does some impressive stuff that I am completely ignorant of.
Of course, I read the book “Shadow Divers”, and those people WERE certifiably crazy.
They knew what nitrogen narcosis was, and decided that knowing what it was and accepting it was an acceptable risk.
Crazy.
Thanks SteveH.
I understand the concept, if you understand it thoroughly and know what it feels like, then you just...well, go with the flow. And I can see that is better than someone who never experienced it suddenly feeling it and thinking “Hey, I can just breath water like a fish!” and removing their mouthpiece.
In that book “Shadow Divers” one of the guys talked about how a crab was talking to him, and he just went “Ah. A talking crab. It is the nitrogen narcosis. No big deal.”
LOL, crazy.
There’s something wrong with this story -
“Nargeolet swam to the target and discovered that the object in question was in fact a volcanic reef.”
juxtaposed with,
“The ship currently resides at the bottom of the ocean and is 400 nautical miles from Newfoundland, Canada. The Titanic famously sank on April 15, 1912, after crashing into an iceberg.”
and
““The apparently basalt volcanic formations are remarkable, and we are astonished at the diversity and density of the sponges, bamboo corals, other cold-water corals, squat lobsters and fishes that are thriving at 2,900 meters deep in the North Atlantic Ocean,” Ross explained.”
let alone the title, “Divers unearth 26-year-old mystery surrounding Titanic shipwreck”.
Radar sonar close enough
She’s sunk Jim
I see what you did there.
” I did not think that Free Diving down to 2,900 meters was possible.”
Sort of like shy diving with no chute, a one way trip.
LOL, I was skeptical knowing physiology as I do, but...I finally couldn’t wait for someone to tell me that was for real, so I had to double check.
Of course it isn’t possible, but...I am often aware of just how much I don’t know, so I had to answer the question for myself...:)
Aqua Man.
Don’t any or you know a thing?
/s
🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
There is earth and then there’s that other dimensional “unearth”
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