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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Hypothetically, they’re not just battling a lack of oxygen, but a build up of carbon monoxide and carbon monoxide poisoning. (from exhaling)
They can at any time reduce their consumption of oxygen by 20%
They’re dead, Jim
Well Thursday morning eastern daylight time is going to expire very shortly 19 minutes from now as I type this. It doesn’t look good for them whatever happened to them.
Wait, carbon dioxide I think. We exhale both, but more carbon dioxide if I’m remembering correctly. (Which I don’t know, lol)
The implosion.....................
Gotta keep the suspense going.
The temperature is just above freezing.
They die of hypothermia well before the oxygen is gone....................
Media gobily gook. There are major factors other than Oxygen. Even if the sub remained in tack I don’t think they could have survived until the oxygen ran out.
Unless the sub is now the size of a trashcan
Yeah, there’s that for you.
Debris field discovered.
I do not understand why this cheap CEO of Oceangate did not have a beacon
onboard that pinged constantly for the entire trip.
The beacon still may not have saved their lives in the short timeframe
rescue teams were under. But it could have allowed rescue teams to find
the Sub, bring it to the surface and recover the bodies for family members.
And investigate what caused the accident.
Without the beacon, it may be impossible to ever find the Sub.
I do not believe the Sub imploded…yet.
Evidence of that implosion would have floated to the surface, such
as the light weight Carbon Fiber that most of the Sub was made out of.
Can you imagine sitting cross-legged for 5 days, no toilet, no food, no water, in the dark, and the cold?
Yeah, I’d pray for an implosion at that point.
The other possibility is that the ballast WAS dropped and the sub surfaced miles from where it was supposed to be and just hasn’t been seen.
“The temperature is just above freezing.
They die of hypothermia well before the oxygen is gone...................”
But the science says they should be suffering in a microcosm of global warming by the excess CO2 emmissions.
The media is hesitant to make the call, that unfortunately the passengers are now presumed dead and media questions should now shift to what they are doing to find and recover the submersible.
There was a pinger on board. It stopped at the same time as the comms (text only) stopped.
They are dead, from day one................
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