I disagree on this one.
Picking up a sound is not conclusive enough to stop a rescue effort or to declare people dead.
I have to agree with Erik.
Okay, having no trust in this government whatsoever, allow me to propose this given scenario:
submersible loses contact, then goes boom. U.S. Navy picks up the sound on SOSUS - just like every other sound that gets picked up in the North Atlantic. Check out a globe, folks - that’s a pretty big place.
So, instead of writing it off and giving the family the middle finger, let’s search for the remains to CONFIRM it’s what we heard down there. Cuz that boom could have been from ANYTHING else, e.g. seismic activity, other crafts in the area, etc.
The knocks every 30 mins? Could have been anything that was in the water but still working. Again, big ocean.
The search party gets sent right to where the heard the boom, and look for a debris field. Find it, confer with USN on the co-ordinates, then word goes out “Yeah, we heard a boom, and thought it might be the submersible, notified the family, then the public. Pretty straight forward.
Meanwhile, everyone complaining about the attempted cover-up of other news somehow KNEW about said covered-up news. Think about that.
Just my $0.02
jimjohn - out.
Agreed.
A Navy review of acoustics data detected an “anomaly consistent with an implosion or explosion” on Sunday in the general area the Titan was diving when it went silent, a senior Navy official told CNN. The information was “immediately shared” with on-scene commanders leading the search and used to narrow the search area, the official said. The sound was determined to be “not definitive” and “the decision was made to continue our mission as a search and rescue and make every effort to save the lives on board.”
If the anomaly turned out not to be the sound of the implosion and all rescue efforts were stopped on Sunday, the 5 people declared dead on Sunday based on the “anomaly” but the sub was later found intact either mid column or bobbing on the surface but out of oxygen, there would be hell to pay for all involved for stopping the rescue mission too early.