Tourist submarine taking people to the site of the Titanic wreck has gone missing

Jamb innnnnnn wrote:

It can descend to the titanic in 2.5 hrs, per a guy who was on fox news

Bad Wigins wrote:

what jumps out at me from the article is there is one pilot and four "mission specialists," who are just ordinary people who paid to ride, and they are operating some of the instruments such as sonar.

If I'm on an airplane, and the pilot invites four passengers into the cockpit to operate the radar, I'm preemptively not getting on that plane.

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Well What Do You Know wrote:

Bad Wigins wrote:

what jumps out at me from the article is there is one pilot and four "mission specialists," who are just ordinary people who paid to ride, and they are operating some of the instruments such as sonar.

If I'm on an airplane, and the pilot invites four passengers into the cockpit to operate the radar, I'm preemptively not getting on that plane.

Well, one of those four is a person who regular goes down with that sub, because they are the person in charge of explaining everything to the other three, so that person has a decent amount of experience.

And the other 3 people do have some sort of training before they go down. They aren't just totally winging it.

Well What Do You Know wrote:

Does anyone know if they usually bring a second deep sea sub on the ship as a backup?

Well What Do You Know wrote:

Snxkcjdbdbd wrote:

Surprised they were not tethered to the mother ship, seems like cheap insurance.

From the surface down to the Titanic on the bottom of the ocean? That would be a REALLY LONG cable.

randomist wrote:

Well What Do You Know wrote:

Does anyone know if they usually bring a second deep sea sub on the ship as a backup?

Yes, and then a third sub as a backup for the second, a fourth for the third, ad infinitum.

Well What Do You Know wrote:

what about attaching the good sub on top of the bad sub, and then just using buoyancy for them both to float back up to the surface?

Bad Wigins wrote:

Well What Do You Know wrote:

what about attaching the good sub on top of the bad sub, and then just using buoyancy for them both to float back up to the surface?

A technically challenging maneuver, but I'm sure the mission specialists can handle it after their 8 hours of training

Jam it innnnnnnn daddy wrote:

Jamb innnnnnn wrote:

The pressure down there is too ridiculous to comprehend, im guessing it imploded.

Well I suppose that’s true for people like you that aren’t believers in science.

Cold War Warrior wrote:

Jam it innnnnnnn daddy wrote:

Well I suppose that’s true for people like you that aren’t believers in science.

Crush depth of each model, USN submarine is supposed to be classified. Use your imagination.

Well What Do You Know wrote:

Cold War Warrior wrote:

Crush depth of each model, USN submarine is supposed to be classified. Use your imagination.

Except this isn't a regular US Navy sub. It's made to go down to the depth of the Titanic.