The Titanic

[waspish]

Some interesting facts from those in the know on both the sub and how to find it on the Jeremy Vine radio show just now.
Some bloke who has done the trip in it explained that once they hit bottom they knew they were within 500metres of essentially a giant scrap yard and steel debris field, but they had no way of knowing how close or in which direction due to the pitch darkness there. He described it as just scrabbling around on the ocean floor for an hour and half looking for something.
Sounds fucking ludicrous, and predictably lethal.
If stuck on the seabed they are stuck waiting for a rescue that is virtually impossible. If they have popped up its a needle in a haystack and then it needs conditions to be such that someone can be physically able to undo the bolts that seal it.

So those gps tabs don’t work 13k bottom of the ocean

 

[mosssideblue]

what's the time scale the people in the sub got, I heard 96 hours but that was from yesterday,
Does the recovery if possible take so much time to bring it back up safely,

also, does it have any way to turn carbon dioxide back into oxygen, I heard somewhere that Nasa have the technology on the spaceships and spacestations

They were saying early Thurs morning before air runs out on ITV this morning.

 

[stonerblue]

So you never get a plane anywhere ?

Not the same.

 

[mosssideblue]

So those gps tabs don’t work 13k bottom of the ocean

It had a pinger to inform those on the roof the vessel is good, and that works at all design depths. Auto pings every 15 mins, but it went tits up on Sunday shortly after it dived

 

[waspish]

It had a pinger to inform those on the roof the vessel is good, and that works at all design depths. Auto pings every 15 mins, but it went tits up on Sunday shortly after it dived

Was listen to someone that say the bottom is just soft mud so lose power drop in that mud that sub could just disappear

 

[Uncle Wally One Ball]

So those gps tabs don’t work 13k bottom of the ocean

Sadly not apparently

 

[stonerblue]

Ok, so because it is statistically safer to fly then go in a submarine it makes the sympathy for deaths less.Got it.

Risk and reward

 

[Uncle Wally One Ball]

So it looks like they are basically fucked..

Lets hope the experts suss it out

 

[stonerblue]

As a slight aside, i watched the Kursk drama the other day and it was very very good.
They had a device on the sub for cleaning the air but if it touched water it instantly ignited.

Kursk: The Last Mission

The crew of the submarine Kursk head out for an ill-fated exercise in the Barents Sea.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[LangleyBlue1970]

The BBC have a live feed on Newfoundland. What do they think is going to happen? It’s just going to bob up?!