Posted on 06/20/2023 3:01:27 PM PDT by CedarDave
The hull of the Titan vessel "showed signs of cyclic fatigue," according to a January 2020 interview with OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, who is aboard the missing vessel. Rush told Geekwire that due to that stress, the hull rating was downgraded to a depth of 3,000 meters, 800 meters short of the Titanic's depth.
In a December 2019 slideshow that appears to have been presented to the Deep Submergence Science Committee of the University — National Oceanographic Laboratory System, OceanGate listed the depth capability of the Titan as 3,000 meters.
But in 2021, OceanGate announced that Titan, not another vessel, had completed a trip to the Titanic.
There had been no public update about Titan's depth rating since it was downgraded.
On the company's current webpage, however, the site uses the exact same language, but with a different 4,000 meter depth, which puts it beyond the depth of the Titanic: "Titan is a Cyclops-class manned submersible designed to take five people to depths of 4,000 meters (13,123 feet) for site survey and inspection, research and data collection, film and media production, and deep sea testing of hardware and software."
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Who are they going to sue now that Ocean Gates President was piloting the craft?
Personally I do not see the attraction of diving to almost 10K feet to see a shipwreck. And now.... Prayers for the passengers and crew.
Bolted shut from the outside in case anyone had any ideas about escaping
Bots with ultra high resolution cameras and lights would be enough for me.
They’re fish paste.
If fired employee’s story is true, very ominous.
What I don’t understand is why the Sub did not have an Airplane style
pinger. Capable of holding up to the pressure at that depth.
Regardless if Sub imploded.
My understanding is that it did not have an Airplane Style Pinger.
In a December 2019 slideshow that appears to have been presented to the Deep Submergence Science Committee of the University — National Oceanographic Laboratory System, OceanGate listed the depth capability of the Titan as 3,000 meters."
90 minutes depth = 3000 meters. Damn.
Here is a discouraging 60-second look at the sub.
“ because the passengers were sealed inside the main capsule by 17 bolts that can only be opened from the outside, they are trapped and could still suffocate”
They all belong to the dead billionaires club now
The support ship lost contact with the submersible at 1 hour 45 minutes from launch, short of the 2 hour 15-20 minutes time to reach the wreck. If it was not safe below 3000 meters, was not upgraded to 4000 meters but made subsequent trips to that depth of the Titanic, they were just lucky. Their luck may well have run out this time.
Sounds like something Dilbert’s company would come up with.
They are going to refit the design for trips to Mars.
Well, on the plus side, I suspect they’ve been spared the horrors of slowly asphyxiating in the dark and cold
(not trying to be funny)
There is one sure way for four of the five on board to cut oxygen consumption by 20%.
Dr. Lynard McCoy, pick up the red courtesy phone, because “Their dead Jim.”
I’ve gone for decades without even seeing the silly moviie but these smart guys couldn’t stay out of a death trap
The company mouthpiece said early on that Titan did have a pinger beacon that would work automatically in case of an accident. But it seems to work so good that it’s now hiding out somewhere in the North Atlantic. Same genius also said the tub would automatically float to the surface in case of a failure. Yup, says right here-—
One thing is dam sure: They will find it since it will be a hazard to navigation forever, otherwise, being in the exact same place where the Titanic hit an iceberg. It’s big enough, and dense enough, such that hitting it near the surface would do serious damage to a commercial ship——this being an active shipping lane and all.
Curiously, one of the fastest ways to find it would be to sic one of our fast attack subs after it. Their sonar arrays, built for traveling under the ice pack, can zero in on anything that doesn’t belong there, and they could do it quickly. Sending down punkass ROV’s that can see a few yards might take the rest of the century.
-PJ
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