Posted on 07/06/2023 6:08:52 AM PDT by Red Badger
A man who was once a passenger on the doomed Titan submersible has claimed that OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush suggested the crew sleep on the vessel overnight while they were stuck at the bottom of the Atlantic.
Jaden Pan's 2021 expedition took a terrifying turn when the Titan's battery died just over two hours into its descent to the Titanic wreck on the ocean floor.
Speaking to the BBC last year, the videographer recalled the moment Rush told the passengers that the battery had gone 'kaput.'
Rush reportedly told passengers they needed to go back to the surface when they were within two football fields' distance of the legendary ship wreckage.
'At first, I thought he was joking because we were over two hours into our expedition and so close to the bottom,' Pan told the BBC.
'But then he explained that one of the batteries went kaput and we were having trouble using the electronic drops for the weights, so it would be hard for us to get back up to the surface.'
As Rush tried to solve the issue, he reportedly offered the passengers to go to sleep as the vessel sunk to the bottom of the ocean.
Once the vessel's weights dissolved after 24 hours, the submersible would be able to rise to the surface.
Half the crew, including Stockton, said they would be okay sleeping at the ocean's floor. However, the other clients were not willing to spend the night under the ocean.
Eventually, Rush managed to use hydraulics to drop the weight and the vessel floated back up safely with everyone on board.
The CEO was seen on the BBC report telling the crew they were going to be down for another '16 to 24 hours.'
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I saw video where Rush had Handles screwed to the top and Monitors screwed to the sides of the inside so how far do the screws go into the carbon fiber ?
Several men have journeyed into Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench (36,000 ft below Pacific Ocean sea level). One Challenger Deep explorer was Hamish Harding, who perished in the Titan catastrophe.
Good question.
I also do not see a metal liner inside the tube in any of the pictures......................not that it would have done much good...............
I bet they used a bathyscaphe.............
Research subs can go that deep but they are fabulously expensive, painstakingly engineered, and carefully monitored and maintained. They are not designed for sightseeing tourists.
But at least he didn’t have any of those uninspiring 50-year old White Men in his company ...
At least he didn’t have any 50+ year old white guys on the payroll.
Any manual mechanism would require a cable or control rod transiting through the hull. Not ideal.
It is a backup system in case the primary electronic weight control system fails. The tethers that hold the weights in place dissolve in ocean water after 24 hours and drop the weights.
I don’t know how you could possibly improvise on the ocean floor and use “hydraulics” to drop the weights.
And I bet they don’t get made of carbon fiber..........
Several vessels have successfully traveled to and from Challenger Deep ... All feature a spherical metal pressure hull.
Didn’t hear about that one....................
Yes, the proper design....................
If that’s the best technology they could come up with they had no business doing what were doing.......good thing there weren’t any 50 year old White guys involved.
Not really. The rest of the industry doesn’t do what Srockton Rush did.
You can make subs that are designed well and go down that far. You don’t make them like this guy did.
And this was not a submarine. It was a submersible. It requires a support ship to get it to location, launch it, monitor it, and get it out of the water. It doesn’t have the same autonomy, range and maneuverability as a submarine.
Developed by those nasty, uninspiring 50-year old White Men.
Except the Chinese boat ... That was developed by uninspiring 50-year old Yellow Men.
Significantly, none of them were developed by inspiring teeny-boppers managed by a nut who thinks the best response to "paralysis by safety" is "WTF? Throw caution to the wind!"
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