Posted on 06/22/2023 12:40:10 PM PDT by Red Badger
The US Navy will not tip its’ hand about current capabilities. Unless they still use the old SOSUS network just for fun.
You should see the banter on various Submariner pages...brutal...
I commented it was 1993 when they identified the Thresher debris. I misdated the time. It was 1963. I figured they know where this debris was from. I knew a Master Chief who transferred from the Thresher just before they sailed for sea trials. Things in engineering on subs changed back then. We got better at doing submarining but paid a high price to learn. Reckon these guys paid a price for somebody else to learn. A good sonar tech on the attending ship could tell them exactly the moment of failure but he’d most likely be an old white guy. Regards from an old 640 class boomer sailor.
So 1,539 Titanic deaths is the new total.
If I said the program management of this endeavor was on par with a high school science project, it would be an insult to high school science students.
Hey you gotta have a hull number. OU812 is a good one. You can build a periscope outa pvc from Home Depot and Camper World will sell you steps to climb in it. 🥴
“Navy knew from the beginning it was gone”
I do, too. All the cold war era equipment we’ve put on the ocean bottoms around the world could hear a whale fart across the seas.
Of course the Navy knew it, if they didn’t then they got some explaining to do for where all the money went.
“...they would be dispersed and remains eaten by every fish in the nearby sea...........”
For some reason, scenes from “Deadly Catch” popped in my head as they haul up crabs from the deep ocean.
The former director of marine operations for OceanGate, David Lockridge, was fired for pointing out flaws in the subs carbon fiber and the possibility of catastrophic failure causing an implosion.
“There are some scavengers, but the remains would have floated to the surface..............”
None would cuz at that depth and pressure it’s way too cold for the bacteria that’s involved decay to start the process.
Crabs, fish and other deep sea creatures will despise of the bodies given enough time.
Exactly! The CG slow walked this and I knew it was goe due to an implosion.
Exactly. Hubby says, “Navy ain’t going to out itself with technology just because some billionaire imploded himself”
The bodies would have been smashed to mush and dissipated under that pressure. I read elsewhere it would have been 2.5 tons PSI at that depth.
Actually, I was on a ship going from Nova Scotia to NC and we hit a huge spring squall. 30-50 ft waves at night for over 8 hrs but I lost consciousness for much of it. I do remember thinking that I was going to die and was terrified at being tossed into that ocean. I know how unforgiving the cold dark sea is.
And my husband heard that they may have died on the first day which is some consolation. I am just at a loss at how the CEO powered on through with incompetence at almost every single level of his company from the product to the staff of ‘inspirational’ wokesters.
The only thing I can get is that he had his eyes on the prize and crossed his fingers that all would be good.
They died instantly when it imploded. They had no idea it was going to happen and had no time to process it when it did. It was the equivalent of someone walking up behind you unnoticed and shooting you in the head. There is no reason to create in your mind a degree of suffering that did not exist.
Indeed - look at the design. There was one 21 inch window. The pilot sat in front, the passengers behind and either took turns looking through the window, or viewed whatever was directly in front of the sub on computer screens.
You are riding in a tube. That's it.
Uh uh, somebody else was riding in a tube. ;-D
Rinky-Dink is correct.
The Owner CEO Stockton Rush was an idiot and would not listen to sane people.
He fired the one man who told him it was not safe.
Now, 4 others have paid the price for his arrogant stupidity. And the company and his estate is liable for damages that may be found to be criminal...........................
Yes, the sonar buoys were dispatched well after the implosion so they would not have heard anything...............
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