When This Word Appears THREE Times in the Titanic Submersible Waiver, Maybe You Shouldn't Go (interesting video inside the craft)

Townhall ^ | 6/20/23 | Matt Vespa

[cotton1706]

The search and rescue operation for the lost OceanGate submersible that took five men down to visit the Titanic wreck remains ongoing, but life support systems are running out. The seacraft was reported missing Sunday. The Titan is the only five-man submarine in the world that can make the 12,500-foot journey to the wreck. It’s a rich man’s game since the cost to participate in this vacation expedition is prohibitive to most people. The price is $250,000 per head. There are concerns that the Titan craft has become stuck in the wreckage. There’s no way to contact the passengers or crew. Hamish Hardin, a British billionaire among the missing, texted a friend about the weather conditions before he vanished underneath the ocean. One person who partook in this adventure and survived was Mike Reiss, a producer, and writer for The Simpsons. He recollected how the waiver mentioned “death” three times on the first page (via NY Post):

[Waverunner]

And these folks aren't around to save them, Cussler's first movie...

[logi_cal869]

I wonder if the waiver states anything about having IBS as a disqualifier…

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“He recollected how the waiver mentioned “death” three times on the first page”

Just like every pamphlet for every drug sold in America.

[algore]

“The sub was made from 5” thick carbon fiber.”

Let’s all die in a plastic submarine,
plastic submarine,
plastic submarine.

While I own a plastic bike, I just bought it cause it was cheap and I have never ridden it mostly cause I am scared of plastic bikes, and cannot get the stupid non-round seatpost out to adjust it. People say cut it off and then carefully saw the inside of the seatpost and collapse it then buy a new one, but dont touch the frame, yea no thanks. My other bikes are 20-22 lbs but this one is about 15

I have lots of columbus sl, slx and 531 bikes that might get ridden sometimes.

[Equine1952]

44psi per square inch/ 100 feet of depth. I could tell how deep the 640 class boomer I was on looking a sea water pressure on the gages in engine room lower level. Even rocket science, isn’t, if you’re trained. 12,500/divided by a 100 X 44. It’s a lot.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“On July 21, 1961, Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom flew the second NASA Mercury-Redstone mission. But that trip, nearly identical to Shepard’s almost ended in disaster. Grissom’s capsule, Liberty Bell 7, sank after the successful splashdown in the Atlantic, and Grissom came close to drowning. The six Mercury flights from 1961-1963 produced several nerve-racking moments, but Grissom’s was the only one that came close to killing an astronaut.”

The hatch was held on with explosive bolts and it blew off while the capsule was in the water. For years, people accused Grissom of panicking and blowing the hatch, but he denied it. The current thinking is the recovery helicopter downwash created static which triggered a spark when the cutter used to cut off a radio antenna connected the antenna.

[algore]

I might be a rocket scientist (or possibly I am )

but I think you meant approximately 55,447 psi

there are good reasons reason I would design it to be a sphere.

[TalBlack]

If they went close enough to the wreck to become entangled THAT is a level of stupidity that can barely be described.

[Equine1952]

Either way the hatch is not opening.

[TangoLimaSierra]

if you were to go down their and unbolt it It would never open.

Correct. And if you could open it the inrush of water would crush everyone.

Now, if it floated to the surface and no one found them, that would be torture as their O2 ran out.

[beethovenfan]

I don’t even like elevators.

[Equine1952]

Submarine outside hatches use sea pressure to help hold the hatch shut. The inner pressure has to equal outside pressure to open it. In scuba diving, Inside pressure has to equal pressure on the outside so you can breathe. You take a breath at 50 feet from a dive tank and go to the surface you have to exhale all the way up slowly. I was taught to follow the small bubbles. Bolting the hatch shut even surfaced pretty much screws the riders.

[waterhill]

Yep, I remember that. Anytime they put you under....
Having hernia repair soon, they said I could watch a movie or just listen to music! And nobody has to drive me home!

[Bonemaker]

Claustrophobia is a good thing...it keeps you from doing stupid stuff.

[Bonemaker]

“...here is the good video of an OceanGate Titanic trip..”

I’ve got their Oceangate Titanic trip right here.

[simpson96]

bookmark

[blackdog]

I don't suppose that rig may have been in the Baltic near some gas pipelines a while back, was it?

No more loose ends......

I just remember the USS Poet disappeared suddenly too, only they had just made a delivery of classified cargo to port for Iran in October, 1980, and were on their way back.

[blackdog]

Not fun at all. Wow! The pain! Good luck.

[waterhill]

Thanks. Doc said it won’t be as bad as my knee surgery was (or the pt after)....I hope

[Equine1952]

First rule of submarining. Number of times Surfacing must equal or exceed the number of times Submerging. Learned that in 1972 from an old E-9 Chief. I never broke that rule and no one talks about it, when they do.