The Titanic

[Kompany Car]

Sound can really travel through water, there's no interference like there is in the air. It travels slower but can be heard thousands of miles away.

Not quite, seawater has different levels of salinity and different temperatures at varying depths which causes sound to be reflected.

Shallower water is fairly easy but at the depths of the Titanic which is 3.75km down it becomes a much bigger problem.

Variable depth sonar mitigates this to some extent but its not perfect.

 

[cleavers]

Water is a fantastic medium for sound travel and no problem with hearing it at the surface

Yes all down to the differences in temperature, and salinity in sea water, sound can travel hundreds of miles given the right conditions. I did a course on under water accoustics a few years ago, some amazing things are possible.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

does it matter

Of course it matters. Not top of the list of priorities but a relevant factor for the hell they must be enduring.

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

Absolutely grim. I'm not a claustrophobic person, but you couldn't get me in one of those things for a million pound. And I've just read it's bolted shut and can't be opened from the inside, what in the name of holy fuck? What possessed them to get into it? Just pray if they aren't saved they slip into unconsciousness peacefully.

And there are some proper uncaring cunts on this thread. I doubt the same flippancy would be shown were it one of your loved ones down there.

Well I would hope not, quite frankly. Why would you want to get out, with a couple of miles of mainly pitch black ocean above you? You would immediately be crushed. And frozen within a handful of seconds.
I agree with you about the second part of your post, by the way.

 

[Kompany Car]

Yes all down to the differences in temperature, and salinity in sea water, sound can travel hundreds of miles given the right conditions. I did a course on under water accoustics a few years ago, some amazing things are possible.

You can hear it absolutely, but pinpointing where the exactly sound is coming from, due to the thermoclines in the sea water is much more difficult.
Navy subs regularly use the thermoclines as a way of masking their position.

 

[SkyBlueFlux]

Absolutely grim. I'm not a claustrophobic person, but you couldn't get me in one of those things for a million pound. And I've just read it's bolted shut and can't be opened from the inside, what in the name of holy fuck? What possessed them to get into it? Just pray if they aren't saved they slip into unconsciousness peacefully.

And there are some proper uncaring cunts on this thread. I doubt the same flippancy would be shown were it one of your loved ones down there.

I mean, of course it can’t be opened from the inside when doing so would immediately kill everybody on board. Opening it from the inside serves no useful function. It’d be like having a handbrake on a spaceship.

 

[cleavers]

You can hear it absolutely, but pinpointing where the exactly sound is coming from, due to the thermoclines in the sea water is much more difficult.

Yeah that was kinda my point, hearing noises doesn't mean you can locate something easily. As I said some of the things I learned on that course would be quite staggering for someone with little knowledge, even for me who had a limited knowledge, I was often astounded by some of the things.

I can't see it being found to be honest, it took them years to find the titanic, and that was far bigger than this vessel is.

 

[Elbow beards]

I mean, of course it can’t be opened from the inside when doing so would immediately kill everybody on board. Opening it from the inside serves no useful function. It’d be like having a handbrake on a spaceship.

Traditional subs can be opened from the inside. They have them spinney handle thingys. Sorry for the technical terminology.

 

[Any1aBlue]

Got no sympathy for them. It's the price sometimes paid for having an 'adventure'.

Jesus wept, some people are just plain horrible.

 

[BLUEYESTU]

Totally off topic, but a few years back, and not too far from here a man and his young son walked out onto the sands at low tide. Fog came in and he lost his bearings. Tide turned and he had his son on his shoulders as the tide took them both to their death

I remember that well - was in the town I lived in. A guy I worked with was part of the search and rescue team and said it was utterly devastating when they found them too late.