Posted on 06/21/2023 11:18:17 AM PDT by Red Badger
VLF is prohibitively expensive and requires extremely long antennas and very high transmit power. They would likely not have the capability for it.
Sorry, meant to say VLF will only go about 120-150 feet max in water. ELF, which is used for even deeper stuff is pretty much limited to government use due to the cost and required equipment.
I'm not an engineer but creating a cable tether would require a gigantic winch. It would have to be able to lift the 11,000 pound weight of the submersible (less any residual bouyancy), the weight of the 2+ miles of stout steel cable, and the force needed to rotate a huge cable drum, all the while overcoming any resistance the water imposes on the submersible which doesn't look very streamlined.
Thanks Red! What an IDIOT!
We old white guys thank the Founder for his sacrifice.
Maybe next time the boss of another company will listen...
Hypoxia can also include a euphoric feeling, a high.
Why in today’s sinful world some experiment - one time only sometimes - with choking during sex........it’s sex plus hypoxia......both evil and deadly.....
I was looking at their website (limited info). They show a computer animation of it being lowered with a tether all the way to the ocean floor. It is also rated to 6,000 meters (20,000 feet).
Yeah, who rated it? The 25-year-old college grad surfer?
From their website:
“Rated to depths of 6000m, the BMS set the world record for coring at depth (5815m) in 2006.”
Of course this is a robotic drill rig and doesn’t need to have anybody on board. Most of it is just open machinery, but I suppose housing the electronic controls at those depths took some engineering.
I meant I’ll bet the Titan didn’t go through anything like that, just the surfer dude saying: “we’re good.”
Oh - gotcha. The comments from the former employee are pretty damning.
I was watching a youtube by an engineer about that building that collapsed in Iowa and killed a few people. A contractor that proposed on the job lost out as he told them he would need another $50k (or something) to properly reinforce the building. They told him it wasn’t needed and he didn’t get the job.
He went back to the site daily to take photos and document the work from the street. The youtube engineer reviews the photos and makes comments showing all of the issues leading to the collapse.
He was dead at that point, yes?
Mike Nelson shakes head
He says the crew is now dead, and he seems very credible.
“He says the crew is now dead, and he seems very credible.”
The CEO had an idea, a vision and the money to carry it out. What he didn’t understand is what he didn’t know. There’s a reason those other companies hired the fifty-year-old white, former submariners. They had a career training for and living in a dangerous environment. There are actually black submariners, but retired ones too are fifty years old.
The navy keeps track of the number of dives and the depth they go to because the stress of those dives adds up and limits the lifespan of the sub’s hull. This particular sub had a carbon hull apparently designed by a former NASA engineer. I’m sure the designer calculated the stresses, but did he take into account the cumulative effect of those stresses? Probably not because he wasn’t, apparently, a naval engineer. Again, someone who doesn’t know what it is that he doesn’t know. I ran into this problem throughout my career; top level managers who had some knowledge about something but did not know what it was they didn’t know. It seemed the less they knew the more certain they were that their crazy idea, whatever it was, would work.
Underwater sonar is picking up sounds like music . . it’s the theme song from Gilligans Island and the refrain “A three hour tour, a three hour tour” increased in volume. Nobody knows what to make of it.
Why did they put the toilet next to the only window on the sub? !!
It should be in the rear. Yet another design flaw the ceo made.
In the 1959 movie "On the Beach" all human life in the northern hemisphere has been killed due to a nuclear war a U.S. Submarine was sent to see if the radiation is dispersing and to find the source of a radioed telegram signal.
(From IMBD) "The submarine next stops at a refinery near San Diego, which has been pinpointed as the source of the mysterious Morse signals. A crew member discovers the power source is still running on automatic control. Nearby, a telegraph key has become entangled in a window shade's pull cord and a half-full Coca-Cola bottle, and is being randomly pulled by an ocean breeze, causing the radio signals. "
Something like that.
That's my theory. I think they should be looking for a giant squid with a propane tank shaped bulge in its belly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2luo6jg4ac
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