The Titanic

[xgorton]

Ever heard of a message in a bottle?

Don't think the Police could have helped.

 

[marco]

Don't think the Police could have helped.

not getting involved 'argued so many times today'

 

[Lavinda Past]

All this 'tapping' and not one comment from Harry Windsor.

 

[FogBlueInSanFran]

Wall Street Journal reporting top secret U.S. Navy listening device — designed to detect enemy subs — heard a sound consistent with an implosion in the vicinity of the wreckage days ago. So sounds like those closest to the search pretty much knew all along what happened.

 

[cleavers]

Pretty sure you just lose consciousness, I'd prefer neither but would prefer that over implosion.

I also wasn't suggesting text messages! There are other ways!

In the no oxygen scenario I was assuming the sub stayed intact (and could be recovered) for messages to survive. Either in notes on phones (if they took them down, I imagine they did for pictures) or any way to write.

Problem with that for me, is you'd probably go mad before the inevitible.

 

[Grassland Blue]

So if the sub was remote controlled, was it sent down unmanned to test it out?
(A bit like sending unmanned satellites into space prior to Gagarins' mission?)
Surely the sub must have been tested before anyone went down in it?
It makes me feel quite ill thinking about it.

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

So if the sub was remote controlled, was it sent down unmanned to test it out?
(A bit like sending unmanned satellites into space prior to Gagarins' mission?)
Surely the sub must have been tested before anyone went down in it?
It makes me feel quite ill thinking about it.

It wasn't remote controlled. It was controlled by a wireless gaming controller by a pilot within the sub itself rather than having an inbuilt control hub.

 

[marco]

So if the sub was remote controlled, was it sent down unmanned to test it out?
(A bit like sending unmanned satellites into space prior to Gagarins' mission?)
Surely the sub must have been tested before anyone went down in it?
It makes me feel quite ill thinking about it.

have you been in a coma for the last 4 days?, remote controll? ;-)

 

[Grassland Blue]

It wasn't remote controlled. It was controlled by a wireless gaming controller by a pilot within the sub itself rather than having an inbuilt control hub.

Oh!
I'm afraid that if I had been one of the intended passengers it would have been a case of, "After you Claude"!
Madness.
The only one I feel sorry for is the lad who put his trust in his dad.
R.I.P.

 

[Don Karleone]

Oh!
I'm afraid that if I had been one of the intended passengers it would have been a case of, "After you Claude"!
Madness.
The only one I feel sorry for is the lad who put his trust in his dad.
R.I.P.

I feel for him to be fair.

 

[TheRubberRing]

Wall Street Journal reporting top secret U.S. Navy listening device — designed to detect enemy subs — heard a sound consistent with an implosion in the vicinity of the wreckage days ago. So sounds like those closest to the search pretty much knew all along what happened.

Yes, I always thought this would be the case and the search was nothing more than a show. The US are never going to come out and say this as it compromises their equipment. Enemies would know exactly how sensitive and where it can monitor.

 

[FogBlueInSanFran]

Yes, I always thought this would be the case and the search was nothing more than a show. The US are never going to come out and say this as it compromises their equipment. Enemies would know exactly how sensitive and where it can monitor.

Oh, I think the search was never a show — it was just for the actual debris — not a rescue mission but a recovery operation.

Reminds me just how insane it is that Malaysia 370 has never been found. That is still truly incredible.

 

[hammocity]

An expert on tonight’s Dan Walker show said about the tragedy even a very small hole puncturing the vessel would fire a jet of water in at such huge pressure it would kill you.

I used to visit a place called TMC in Tytherington which cuts all kinds of materials accurately by Waterjet at 87000 PSI (means nowt to me) including metals and alloys for the Aerospace Industry, very high safety standards for obvious reasons.

 

[hammocity]

Probably, although I assume it's not impossible that the sub didn't implode until recently. Maybe if it'd been stuck on a ridge or something

On TV they said three planes have been dropping sonar bouys all around the crash site in the last few days. If the implosion happened after these had dropped they would have been picked up so the probability it was on Sunday is the informed guess from the Experts.

 

[mackenzie]

When you consider that it took up to 10 minutes for both parts of the Titanic to hit the sea bed, from when it sank beneath the waves, it gives you an idea of the depths where this submersible is. Hard to get your head around.

 

[Grassland Blue]

When you consider that it took up to 10 minutes for both parts of the Titanic to hit the sea bed, from when it sank beneath the waves, it gives you an idea of the depths where this submersible is. Hard to get your head around.

Something like Ashton under Lyne to the Etihad.
Or twice as far as from Piccadìlly.

 

[mccity]

On TV they said three planes have been dropping sonar bouys all around the crash site in the last few days. If the implosion happened after these had dropped they would have been picked up so the probability it was on Sunday is the informed guess from the Experts.

Yeah that's what seems to have happened, unfortunately

 

[Koniec]

One day I hope to be rich enough so my shenanigans get me called an “adventurer” and to a stupid Cnut.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

When you consider that it took up to 10 minutes for both parts of the Titanic to hit the sea bed, from when it sank beneath the waves, it gives you an idea of the depths where this submersible is. Hard to get your head around.

It’s about 42,000 barms deep.

 

[Bluesince1979]

Im glad it sounds like it ended quickly for them. Was a hideous thought to think they were sat on the sea bed … waiting