Posted on 06/21/2023 6:38:29 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The area surrounding Titanic's Atlantic grave grows busier with search vessels as everyone tries to get eyes on the missing OceanGate submersible.
Earlier this week, a submarine full of tourists disappeared while on a trip to the wreckage of the Titanic. The sub was equipped with 96 hours of oxygen, meaning rescuers are racing against the clock to locate the missing sub and save its occupants from watery, claustrophobic hell. The latest update? They’re still down there.
However, rescuers have noticed a sound coming from beneath the North Atlantic, a set of “banging” noises first discovered by a Canadian plane. They’re hoping that this sound is related to the Titan sub, and that by finding the source of the noise they’ll also happen upon the sunken $250,000-per-seat tube. But, according to the New York Times, seeking out the sound is tricker than it might seem:
Capt. Jamie Frederick of the United States Coast Guard said remotely operated vehicles are seeking the source of the sounds, and a team of experts is examining the noises to determine if they might be from the missing vessel. But so far, he said, that analysis has been “inconclusive.”
More rescue vessels have arrived in the vast search area — roughly twice the size of Connecticut and more than two miles deep — where teams of international experts have been conducting an extensive search for the craft, called the Titan. The 22-foot submersible lost contact on Sunday during what should have been a two-and-a half-hour journey to the wreck of the Titanic.
The New York Times also claims oxygen is truly becoming a concern. In the same updating piece, the Times quotes a United States Coast Guard admirable who estimates the occupants of the submersible may have a mere 20 hours of air left — less than a day to find the sub, pull it from the depths, and get its passengers some breathable air.
I wonder if they are timing it or ballparking the interval. Either way if they’re not bobbing on the surface waiting to be found. They are done. No air, no water, and no time. I wonder what they are doing about CO2. Provided they are still breathing. Pretty sad.
Here is part of a transcript from this fantastic, easy to watch video.
The Titan Tragedy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dka29FSZac
“so let’s talk about life support
um the data sheet claims that it has 96
hours of life support for five people my
question is how was this tested did they
put five people in the submarine while
it was ashore sealed them in there with
17 bolts and waited even 24 hours to see
how good the air quality was after one
day much less four days was that test
ever done we don’t know there’s no
information on that there’s simply a
claim on the website that they have 96
hours of life support, where is the
atmosphere monitoring system in all
these photos?
I don’t see any air pitons
or sensors anywhere and in all the
displays that I see from their public
website no there’s no indication of
oxygen levels and other you know toxic
gas levels like CO2 carbon monoxide all
these things that could generate you
need to be aware of those levels and if
they are aware it’s just not available
on any of their uh of their photos did
they just keep pumping oxygen and into
the capsule while it was underway so
they could keep the CO2 and you know
oxygen level in a proper ratio well
there’s a lot of other gases involved
with that that you have to manage as
well”
It could have drifted hundreds of miles with 5 knot current.
I read that shore guard duty assignment around Pearl Harbor, especially at night in the weeks following the Dec 7th attack was not popular, you could hear all over the place was “tap tap tap …. tap tap tap … tap tap tap. No way to get those men out.
Fake news in prep for a new movie of the week already in production? Or a distraction for Biden?Not even sure if this is sarcasm anymore,,,
CO2 is scrubbed automatically, but probably dependent on working electrical system for fans.
We in submarines scrubbed co2 and discharged it through the auxiliary seawater system. CO was trapped and converted to make it into co2 then sent out. Seawater was converted to freshwater that was broken down to O2 and held in bottles to be bled back into the boat. We could stay down indefinitely. These guys don’t have that luxury. Our redundancy was huge compared to this Rube Goldberg operation. We weren’t making money, we were spending taxpayer dollars to fight the Cold War. I wouldn’t sit in that contraption just to look at it.
I don’t know if it’s true, but I heard it was tapping at half hour intervals.
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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
“’Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door—
Only this and nothing more.”
But maybe this incident does bear a passing resemblance to Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket.
He’s dead, Jim.
While it hasn’t been adequately tested per se the Titan has successfully been down to the titanic wreck three times. Of course the challenger had been in space before its disaster.
Remember the telegraph key being hit by something blowing in the wind in the movie “On the Beach”?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2luo6jg4ac
If you’ve never watched the movie it is worth the time. Depressing as hell though.
“The Titanic sunk 111 years ago. Yet it is still claiming victims.”
I don’t know. That’s kind of an insult to the real victims of the sinking of the Titanic...who had no choice but to die. These people on the sub willingly put their lives on the line. For a thrill and an adrenaline rush, apparently. Not at all the same. If anything is still claiming victims...it’s the level of stupidity that some people have. And that is, apparently, as endless as infinity.
A lot of people are praying for the lives down there in that mini-sub now. If they are rescued, let’s pray that they have learned a valuable lesson and will not risk their lives again in the future. If not, let’s pray that others will take note of this incident and learn from it.
” Mysterious Knocking Sound”
Landshark.
wy69
“Depressing as hell though.”
Yes, it was. As depressing as reality these days, in fact. I can’t believe we’re even talking about nuclear war again now.
An engineer told NASA managers that challenger accident wasn’t a matter of if but when. O’ring burn through on booster engines had failed two of three barriers before. Failing 3 was predicted. Money is NASA’s sugar and schedule was everything. Titan didn’t have even two layer redundancy and were advised by several experts in submersibles that the vessel wasn’t safe. Follow the money is generally an indicator of who screwed the pooch.
> That’s kind of an insult to the real victims of the sinking of the Titanic… <
That’s a rather odd statement. The poor folks on the mini-sub are most probably dead. And they are dead because the situation is what it is. That is a statement of fact. No Titanic = no deaths on any mini-sub.
However, you do have a point. The passengers on the Titanic did have a choice. They surely did. They willingly boarded the ship. But they did not see any risk, because were told that there was no risk. The Titanic was unsinkable. It was foolish to believe that. No ship is unsinkable.
I suppose that the folks on the mini-sub were also told that there was no risk. It was also foolish to believe that. Way more foolish than believing that the Titanic was unsinkable.
Not tested; OCEANGATE, sounds to much like HEAVENSGATE to me.
Prayers for the family but sorry folks, they are dead.
“safe and effective”
That’s a bit harsh.
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