Posted on 06/21/2023 1:27:46 PM PDT by Red Badger
Rush, the CEO of OceanGate was too cheap to buy a Pinger Beacon
that pings constantly to help pinpoint the Subs Location. Might not have
help rescue the Sub in time but could have allowed a possible recovery
of Sub and bodies.
“That’s right. A decent sub with a 396 4 barrel would be back on the surface by now.”
LOL! It would flood out in a deep puddle.
There is no real capability to rescue these people at 2 miles deep. It would be like trying to rescue the Apollo astronauts from the surface of the moon. It’s just not feasible in the race against depleting oxygen.
I suspect the only reason they’re even searching for this thing right now is that there’s a not-so-remote possibility it is floating on the surface after all.
“ What are the chances that a fist or hammer banging on carbon fiber at 12000 feet down would generate sound waves audible to a flying aircraft?
It’s ridiculous.”
If you had read The Hunt For Red October, Clancy laid out how this works .
And that was a long time ago
Here’s that story from Conservative Treehouse, including the video of the CEO saying exactly that. DEI = DIE
As I understand it, the aircraft deploy sonar buoys on the ocean surface. The buoys pick up the sound and transmit to the aircraft.
As I said yesterday “fish paste”.
Seriously?
Note to self: Read all replies before replying. LOL.
Jim Noble wrote: “What are the chances that a fist or hammer banging on carbon fiber at 12000 feet down would generate sound waves audible to a flying aircraft?”
Sono bouys.
You would think the lessons of the Apollo tragedy would have factored into these types of designs.
The Titanic went down on its first voyage. This went down on its third. Someone told me their might be miracle and they will rescue the people. I said maybe they will rescue the people from Titanic.
Never mind people with military sub experience. They should have had people with experience designing military subs. Military subs dive to 500 meters. This dived to 4000 meters. The water pressure is much greater that deep.
Supposedly they have heard banging on metal at thirty minute intervals
Absolutely.
Especially when the CEO said one of the defining characteristics of his company was their strategy of bringing aerospace expertise into the world of subsurface vessel design and operations.
While there does seem to be an element of “show” while holding out a bit of hope the bottom line is they have to find this wreck. At 20,000 pounds it would represent a serious hazard to regular navigation if it happened to be hovering just below the surface. Even if it’s on the bottom it still represents a big piece of rolly krapiron. If it’s hovering a few hundred feet down it would forever be a hazard to our own subs. Water density being what it is, if the thing is intact, it could be at any depth. I’m reminded of the occasional body we find in lakes/reservoirs suspended halfway down. The body buoyancy keeps it where a temperature gradient wants it to be. One of our local divers recently found a fisherman who’d been missing for over a year: 140 feet down in a 250 feet deep lake?
I wonder if he’s OK with 50 year old white engineers saving his @$$.
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