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What happened to the missing Titan sub? These are the most likely scenarios
Global News ^ | By Michelle Butterfield Global News Posted June 21, 2023 1:04 pm Updated June 21, 2023 2:57 pm

Posted on 06/21/2023 1:27:46 PM PDT by Red Badger

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To: 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.


61 posted on 06/21/2023 2:32:04 PM PDT by tennmountainman (FUJB)
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To: TangoLimaSierra

“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.


62 posted on 06/21/2023 2:32:12 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: Magnum44

63 posted on 06/21/2023 2:32:56 PM PDT by KevinB (Word for the day: "kakistocracy" - a society governed by its least suitable or competent citizens)
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To: Bonemaker

64 posted on 06/21/2023 2:33:45 PM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
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To: Red Badger
Best case scenario is the hull ruptured and they were killed instantly.

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.

65 posted on 06/21/2023 2:33:53 PM PDT by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President. A conservative who fights and wins.)
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To: Jim Noble

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.


66 posted on 06/21/2023 2:35:23 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I've just pissed in my pants and nobody can do anything about it." -- Major Fambrough)
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To: Jim Noble

“ 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


67 posted on 06/21/2023 2:35:24 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Have you seen Joe Biden's picture on a milk carton?)
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To: Midwesterner53

Here’s that story from Conservative Treehouse, including the video of the CEO saying exactly that. DEI = DIE

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/06/21/missing-sub-ceo-explains-why-it-was-important-for-him-not-to-hire-50-year-old-white-guys-from-military-as-submariners-for-his-tourist-sub-businesso/#more-248003


68 posted on 06/21/2023 2:35:36 PM PDT by cyn
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To: Jim Noble
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.

As I understand it, the aircraft deploy sonar buoys on the ocean surface. The buoys pick up the sound and transmit to the aircraft.

69 posted on 06/21/2023 2:36:28 PM PDT by KevinB (Word for the day: "kakistocracy" - a society governed by its least suitable or competent citizens)
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To: Sirius Lee

As I said yesterday “fish paste”.


70 posted on 06/21/2023 2:38:10 PM PDT by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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To: Midwesterner53

Seriously?


71 posted on 06/21/2023 2:38:29 PM PDT by Rocco DiPippo
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To: KevinB
As I understand it, the aircraft deploy sonar buoys on the ocean surface. The buoys pick up the sound and transmit to the aircraft.

Note to self: Read all replies before replying. LOL.

72 posted on 06/21/2023 2:39:26 PM PDT by KevinB (Word for the day: "kakistocracy" - a society governed by its least suitable or competent citizens)
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To: Jim Noble

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.


73 posted on 06/21/2023 2:41:23 PM PDT by DugwayDuke (Most pick the expert who says the things they agree with.)
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To: G Larry

You would think the lessons of the Apollo tragedy would have factored into these types of designs.


74 posted on 06/21/2023 2:42:41 PM PDT by Mean Daddy (Every time Hillary lies, a demon gets its wings. - Windflier)
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To: Red Badger

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.


75 posted on 06/21/2023 2:43:07 PM PDT by xxqqzz
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To: xp38

Supposedly they have heard banging on metal at thirty minute intervals


76 posted on 06/21/2023 2:44:07 PM PDT by Nifster ( I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: Rocco DiPippo

Absolutely.


77 posted on 06/21/2023 2:45:56 PM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: Mean Daddy
You would think the lessons of the Apollo tragedy would have factored into these types of designs.

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.

78 posted on 06/21/2023 2:47:25 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I've just pissed in my pants and nobody can do anything about it." -- Major Fambrough)
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To: Political Junkie Too

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?


79 posted on 06/21/2023 2:50:26 PM PDT by OldWarBaby
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To: cyn

I wonder if he’s OK with 50 year old white engineers saving his @$$.


80 posted on 06/21/2023 2:51:29 PM PDT by Mean Daddy (Every time Hillary lies, a demon gets its wings. - Windflier)
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