Posted on 06/22/2023 8:34:11 AM PDT by Red Badger
Despite their onboard oxygen tank expected to be depleted sometime Thursday morning, one doctor says they may have more time if the passengers are still alive. He estimates the five people aboard the lost Titanic tourist sub could survive for 10 to 20 hours with air still circulating through the experimental capsule.
Dr. Richard Moon, a professor of anesthesiology at Duke University, said that despite conditions being dire, those aboard the OceanGate Expedition's submersible could extend the oxygen available after its tank is depleted by staying calm and moving as little as possible.
"The actual amount of time that they have is unpredictable, but it's probably less than 24 hours after the final oxygen in the tank is depleted," Moon, director of the Duke Center for Hyperbaric Medicine and Environmental Physiology, told ABC News.
The Titan submersible had 96 hours of oxygen when it set off on its journey to the Titanic wreckage around 8 a.m. on Sunday, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. The sub pilot, OceanGate founder and CEO Stockton Rush, lost contact with its companion surface ship an hour and 45 minutes into the trip and hasn't been heard from since, setting off a desperate search off the coast of Newfoundland.
Coast Guard officials said the minivan-sized vessel's air tank is expected to be depleted sometime Thursday morning.
"When you have an enclosed vessel, such as the Titan, everybody is using oxygen, everybody is producing carbon dioxide, which is scrubbed from the environment by carbon dioxide absorbent materials," Moon said. "So, there would be an electric fan that would be blowing the air through a carbon dioxide absorber and I don't know what the lifespan of that would be. It would be at least as long as the oxygen will last, but it may be longer"...
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Yep, pretty much what I figured............
“non biological anomalies”
What are we talking here, like killer androids?
“The temperature is just above freezing.”
Outside the vessel it may be, but not inside the vessel. Remember your gas laws. If you take a fixed volume of gas and put it under pressure, what happens to the temperature of the gas?
Yes, they gas will get hotter. but the inside pressure of teh sub was surface normal, 14-15 psi.
Until it imploded and the immense compression then explosion blew it apart................
The media will just say they're missing until we are able to find more debris and we are able to determine that it belongs to the former submersible Titan.
Which sounds like it has been identified over a half hour ago.
Ah, gotcha. So they knew that all along probably and just didn’t want to be the ones to rip that hope away until after everyone knew the “oxygen deadline” had passed any way.
USCG Northeast Twitter page
https://twitter.com/USCGNortheast
Could the sounds have been pieces of the destroyed vessel landing on the ocean floor? Would that explain the intervals between sounds?
USCG press conference, Rear Adm. John Maugre
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYXHnruTguM
In general, the TITAN Cyclops 2 debris field is 200 meters from the bow of the Titanic. The failure occured while the TITAN Cyclops 2 was in its descent water column.
Debris field. Tail cone. Front end bell of the pressure hull. Found other end - aft end bell of the pressure hull.
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