'Safety is relative': What CEO of missing Titanic submarine company told me during my trip blockquote
At 04:36 of 0616, you can see a port side view of the TITAN, with its front spherical dome "hatch" opened. In the interview, David Pogue said that, in operation, only 17 of the 18 front dome "hatch" flange bolts are installed - the topmost (12 o'clock position) bolt is not installed.
I wonder if the bolts are replaced for each dive. If the bolt torque is mild.
1:06 / 14:18 Photo with front dome "hatch" open. [Might be Cyclops 1 - notice the shroud for the front dome "hatch."]
3:14 / 14:18 The TITAN Cyclops 2 can send PING's back to the surface mothership:
The communications that they have . . . They do not have any radio communications because radio waves do not go through the water. They have a rudimentary system which is like a SONAR system. The vessel sends a PING back to the [mothership] vessel every 15 minutes, and within that PING, they can send very short text messages like the old text system that we had before smart phones.