Posted on 06/22/2023 10:54:16 AM PDT by libh8er
Debris has been found in the search for the missing Titan submersible, reportedly including parts of its outside cover. Dive expert David Mearns told the BBC the president of the Explorers Club - which is connected to the diving and rescue community - says the debris includes "a landing frame and a rear cover from the submersible". The US Coast Guard earlier confirmed a "debris field" had been found within the search area. It was located by a remote-controlled underwater search vehicle (ROV) near the wreck of the Titanic. A US Coast Guard news conference is scheduled for 1500 EST (1900 GMT) on Thursday afternoon. The Titan vessel went missing in a remote area of the North Atlantic on Sunday with a four-day oxygen supply for its crew of five.
Some experts have speculated that it could have suffered a catastrophic implosion as a result of a hull failure. The minivan-sized submersible was owned and operated by the private company OceanGate Expeditions. The firm's co-founder, Guillermo Söhnlein, told the BBC that he believes there may have been an "instantaneous implosion" of the craft. "If that's what happened, that's what would have happened four days ago," he said.
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Initially an expert who listened to their last communication before they lost contact, unexpectedly, thought he heard noises indicating a possible catastrophic event.
Amen. 🙏
Several years ago, there was a Titanic: Adventure Out of Time computer game available. I bought the Mac version and played it. The most I remember of it were the various rooms and parts of the ship you could travel to. For its time, it was fairly decent. There was also a mystery game that took place at Versailles in 1685 during Louis XIV's reign. You got to go through the palace, and into the garden and maze that was once there. I enjoyed those historically-based computer games, but nobody really makes them anymore. The French company "Cryo Interactive Entertainment" that produced the Versailles game, and "CyberFlix" that produced the Titanic game went out of business a long time ago. I'd always hoped someone would make updated versions of them.
The irony is he himself was an old white guy. And piloting the craft he designed but skipped doing some deep depth tests. So....
Yeah he said that wouldn’t inspire anyone.
I guess white young men don’t need role models to inspire them. They re doing just so well as a demographic, with every other demographic in this gynocentric country hating on them, including their teachers and politicians.
They arent waterproof af toilet depth.
So the banging noise heard every 30 minutes was all a lie. We're all scamming car mechanics now.
This guy is a nutjob.
To compare this to ransacking graves, hes subhuman intelligence. They do not take a single thing from that shipwreck. They view it. Its like going to view historical graves, or a civil war battlfield. Those places sell merchandise on top of that. No one sells anything doing a sub dive on the Titanic.
This is just trying to win vietual signalling points for something they are envious of. There are companies that do dives on multiple wrecks all over the world, and this company diddives in more than one place. The sole difference is this company cut corners on safety and design while the others have not done so.
If you need to get angry get angry at the right thing. At companies that cut corners and skip critical testing of equipment, like this particular one did. All the others that don’t, don’t lump them in as the problem, or that the problem is diving down to view shipwrecks. We have people viewing tons of historical sites where many people died and profiting off them, how about the Twin Towers or the field in Pennsylvania, where people visit.
Come on people, use your frigging brains.
The material is still there - it didn’t flash into plasma - but it doesn’t look like a ring any more. More like just a smear.
Could have actually been debris clanging while falling, or hitting the ocean floor.
A tiny leak would be like a water jet inside that craft.
The subsmersibles walls, spun with carbon fiber, were originally said they were going to be 7” thick. They wound up being only 5” thick.
Certain people in the company were uncomfortable with this and did not volunteer to pilot the craft.
So....what? We need about 30 million more subs?
Also a real design flaw was that people inside had no way to let themselves out in an emergency. The viewing window on the bow is how you get in, amd then they bolt it on from the outside. You cant get it off from the inside. So you could actually get to the surface but if the support ship somehow is really far away, or the craft starts sinking, you could be safe on top and still die because you run out of air.
Lots of things in this design are really, really lacking.
The implosion causes the air to escape instantly and be displaced with crushing seawater. The air doesnt crush you. The sea coming in in an instant displaces the air and crushes you.
Same with nurses. They fired the ones who didnt get vaxxed and then begged to get foreign ones in, whom, shocker, they didn’t demand get vaxxed. It was a way to get good docs and nurses tossed out of care facilities and bring in foreign replacements to displace native citizens.
I know this is morbid but I wonder how the human body would look like when exposed to a sudden pressure change from cabin pressure to pressure at that depth.
Yeah the view from that sub was not great. Whole thing is very claustrophobic.
It was supposed to be 7” thick
They only made it 5” thick
So it might have been ok at 7”, but they didn’t make it to original specs, and never tested any of them to this depth
Do you know if James Cameron is a liberal?
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