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The Lost Titanic Sub Didn’t Even Have a Basic Safety Beacon
Daily Beast ^ | Updated Jun. 20, 2023 5:41PM ET | Tony Ho Tran Deputy Editor, Innovation & Tech Justin Rohrlich Reporter

Posted on 06/21/2023 11:18:17 AM PDT by Red Badger

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To: IYAS9YAS

VLF..........................


121 posted on 06/21/2023 1:02:10 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Danie_2023

“And since arrogant men never seem to learn from their mistakes...”

Gen. Custer comes to mind.


122 posted on 06/21/2023 1:03:49 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Varsity Flight

.....like “sources tell _____ news that during the Trump administration, independent maritime water negotiations were never attempted or neglected at all...”


123 posted on 06/21/2023 1:05:39 PM PDT by Varsity Flight ( "War by🙏🙏 the prophesies set before you." I Timothy 1:18. Nazarite prayer warriors. 10.5.6.5)
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To: Bonemaker

Mt. Everest


124 posted on 06/21/2023 1:06:54 PM PDT by Varsity Flight ( "War by🙏🙏 the prophesies set before you." I Timothy 1:18. Nazarite prayer warriors. 10.5.6.5)
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To: Bonemaker

That depends on personality and their emotional stability.

A possibility for sure. Might cause real problems for others.

We’ll probably never know.....


125 posted on 06/21/2023 1:07:46 PM PDT by Arlis
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To: Jim Noble

Additionally there is nothing on the Titan to attach the hose to from what I understand. I don’t know anything about submarines or submersibles but I see only 2 ways these people are rescued. 1. If they are entangled in the wreck then maybe a ROV can disentangle them so they can surface. 2. They are already on the surface


126 posted on 06/21/2023 1:07:57 PM PDT by longfellowsmuse (last of the living nomads)
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To: Arlis

Reminds me of Edgar Allen Poe’s “Cask of Amantillado”.


127 posted on 06/21/2023 1:10:02 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Red Badger

I believe they had comms on the way down.. but I have not been following it that closely.


128 posted on 06/21/2023 1:10:46 PM PDT by cableguymn
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To: Arlis
They will die of hypoxia - lack of oxygen. NOT painful. You get sleepy, foggy, go to sleep. Then die.

Yep, like Payne Stewart and others in planes.

129 posted on 06/21/2023 1:11:06 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Bonemaker
That’s when it imploded. Passengers at one with the sea. Here’s a plan: attach the bloody thing to fail safe cable, air and communication lines.

Radio comms simply will not penetrate more than a hundred meters (probably less) at best for civilian comms. They knew they'd lose comms for a period of time. It's when they exceeded that period of time that the support crew figured something was wrong. A beacon wouldn't do squat for them at 12,500' down except waste electricity.

130 posted on 06/21/2023 1:12:11 PM PDT by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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To: Red Badger

and how thick of a hose would be needed to pump air down to that depth?


131 posted on 06/21/2023 1:12:15 PM PDT by cableguymn
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To: Boogieman

they might get a bill.. but most of them are government vessels.


132 posted on 06/21/2023 1:13:42 PM PDT by cableguymn
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To: cableguymn

Pretty dang think. Pressure is at 5000 PSI....................


133 posted on 06/21/2023 1:15:25 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: cableguymn

The comms stopped at 1 hr and 45 minutes.

They had slow text messaging and a pinger every 15 minutes.

Both stopped................


134 posted on 06/21/2023 1:17:36 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: cymbeline

I wonder why the vessel wasn’t tethered by a cable to the support ship.


it would have caused so much force on the sub that ocean currents would move the sub where ever they are going. Or most likely, would have simply ripped the hook from the sub.


135 posted on 06/21/2023 1:17:48 PM PDT by cableguymn
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To: 1Old Pro
we generally don't go below 100 feet and stay under less than an hour, I don;t think decompression is required.

Time at depth is the major factor in diving.

It wasn't an issue in our class since the deepest we dove was maybe 35 feet........

I would also add that it wasn't the nicest experience since the qualifying dive was I think in October and the rented dry suits were required.

136 posted on 06/21/2023 1:18:04 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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To: Hot Tabasco

Or check out dive was at Dome Island. Where is the deepest part of Lake George NY?
Lake George (lake), New York - Wikipedia
The lake’s deepest point is 196 feet (60 m), between Dome Island and Buck Mountain in the southern quarter of the lake.

A guy broke thru the ice in his pickup the Winter before and they located it that same day with side scan and the instructor went down and pulled the guy out of the truck and pulled him behind the boat to shore.


137 posted on 06/21/2023 1:21:55 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Bonemaker

“Gen. Custer comes to mind.”

Custer made the fatal, but typical, mistake of underestimating his opponents. Many of our illustrious “leaders” have done the same thing with no repercussions. It just wasn’t Custer’s day.


138 posted on 06/21/2023 1:26:29 PM PDT by Danie_2023
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To: Red Badger

owner didn’t want to hire smart old white people.

He paid the price.


139 posted on 06/21/2023 1:31:45 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: TexasFreeper2009

No fool like a woke fool.


140 posted on 06/21/2023 1:51:27 PM PDT by Justa (If where you came from is so great then why aren't Floridians moving there?)
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