R.I.P. Gentlemen.
Posted on 06/20/2023 8:22:30 PM PDT by algore
4Hope of finding the Titan five - the crew on board a missing sub on an expedition to the Titanic shipwreck - have grown after rescue groups reported 'likely signs of life' and 'banging sounds.'
A Canadian Aircraft, part of the enormous search mission looking for the missing Titanic tourists, heard 'banging' at 30-minute intervals in the area the submarine disappeared.
The banging was noted in emails exchanged with the US Department of Homeland Security and seen by Rolling Stone.
Richard Garriot de Cayeux, President of The Explorers Club, confirmed in a Tuesday night social media post that 'there is cause for hope.'
In a statement he said: 'We have much greater confidence that 1) There is cause for hope, based on data from the field - we understand that likely signs of life have been detected at the site.'
It's unclear when the banging sounds were heard, and officials have not confirmed the reports or said they have found the crew that has been stuck in the deep Atlantic Ocean since the submersible launched Sunday and quickly lost contact with others.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Or toilet paper?
The 100% pure Oxygen that was being used didn’t help much either.
R.I.P. Gentlemen.
I always fall asleep bin the magnet tube.
The loud noise is a lulu by.
This is not your typical sub.
Reminds me of my neighbor making a blimp in his garage when I was growing up.
Never did fly.
The military aircraft drop sonobouys which ping the ocean and transmit the signal back to the aircraft. But you are correct, it is not intuitive and mostly sailors involved in some aspect of submarine tracking would know this.
Take a bladder down and pump it full of diesel fuel. Air is not an option because at 12,500 feet, the air would have to be compressed to greater than 5,000 psi just to get it out of the hose into the bladder.
There’s big problems with this. First, the physical attachment. Is there even an external connection? Second, the problem isn’t so much the oxygen as the buildup of CO2. At about 4% it becomes toxic so I assume that the sub is equipped with CO2 scrubbers and not simply oxygen tanks.
A great deal of our military submarine searching technology is conducted by aircraft, so one assumes that’s what “heard” the banging.
Interesting info at this link:
One piece of info:
“Reports have been coming out that the missing submersible, the Titan, did not pass safety regulations. According to a story by The New Republic, the vessel was far from being certified for the pressure that it would withstand at the depths it intended to reach.
The company’s mission brief also made reference to the vessel not conforming to regulations.”
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There was some fear there was a catastrophic failure due to pressures at depth, but if the knocking is coming from the people in the sub, then evidently the structure has held up so far.
Those people are literally entombed and I can’t imagine what is going on with their mental state.
I know it is easy to be cynical but ... I see little evidence of a contingency rescue plan for a commercial submersible business with a $250K passenger price tag. I guess it is sort of like rescuing someone off Everest.
What's up with that? Rolling Stone citing an internal U.S. Homeland Security email? Eeeesh.
Of all government departments to have a cozy relationship with the press (especially Rolling Stone), I would hope that DHS would be among the last, or at least the easiest to find the culprit.
If DHS wanted to find the leakers.
That thing imploded, and those people died in a fraction of a second. They'll never find much more than scraps of it, if they ever find anything at all, which I doubt they will.
Hull is carbon fiber, bow and stern titanium.
17 bolts in many of the headlines and stories?
This is FF, plain to see.
This was an ‘experimental sub’ ; listened to a lot of experts today; none said they would have gone down in that thing - they cut corners in design
KAMALA said she would go down on it
And Rolling Stone??????????Exactly.
I did some experiments on functional MRI (fMRI), and while I’m not claustrophobic, I did realize that breathing in my own exhalation inside the MRI tube caused me to fall asleep. A lot. They kept having to wake me up to do the tests.
Water, water everywhere, and not a drop to drink.
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