Titanic tourist sub missing

[Darat]

I haven't seen any of that.
I do know there was an attempt by our lovely government to pass a law that would have criminalised the act of rescuing illegal immigrants from a sinking boat. The RNLI made a statement in response that they were going to rescue anybody in distress no matter what their status.

I don't know what happened to the law in question. I think it might have been quietly dropped because the optics of a volunteer RNLI crew being on trial for stopping somebody from drowning would be pretty bad even for the current shower running our country.

Another thing about the RNLI is that they don't judge you. They rescue people in danger and that's it. They don't admonish you, they don't call you stupid and they don't present you with a bill.

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/nigel-farage-rnli-migrants-gb-news-b1892769.html

https://mdcomms.co.uk/blogs/did-the-daily-mail-succeed-in-sinking-the-rnli/

 

[JoeMorgue]

"We found the sub!"
"Oh that's good!"
"It's empty."
"....."
[Twilight Zone theme]

"We sent the sub down with 5. It came back with 6."

 

[TurkeysGhost]

soooooo

Who gets the fun job of saying it's over?

Having set off with 96 hours of air, according to the company, its oxygen would likely be depleted some time on Thursday morning. Precisely when depends on factors such as whether the craft still has power and how calm those on board are, experts say, and assumes the Titan is still intact.

https://www.reuters.com/world/search-intensifies-titanic-sub-with-only-hours-oxygen-left-2023-06-22/

 

[shemp]

"We found the sub!"
"Oh that's good!"
"It's empty."
"....."
[Twilight Zone theme]

"We found the sub!"
"Oh that's good!"
"The sub is inside the house!"

 

[JoeMorgue]

"We found the sub!"
"Oh that's good!"
"The sub is inside the house!"

"There never was a submarine."
"That's impossible... that submarine died... one year ago... THIS VERY NIGHT."
"Oh God. You see a submarine? When you look at it, you see a submarine?"

 

[TurkeysGhost]

 

[alfaniner]

I'm wondering if CNN is going to cover this to the extent they did the missing MH370 plane. That was a week or so where it seemed that nothing progressed, but they reported incessantly.

 

[The Don]

The story has dominated BBC news coverage until the Bank of England base rate was put up by 0.5% to 5.0%.

All of a sudden billionaire adventurers trapped in a sub weren't so important.

 

[Olmstead]

The story has dominated BBC news coverage until the Bank of England base rate was put up by 0.5% to 5.0%.

All of a sudden billionaire adventurers trapped in a sub weren't so important.

To be fair, they are now definitely dead (absent the possibility of a quantum miracle that spontaneously turns carbon dioxide into oxygen).

 

[Dr.Sid]

To be fair, they are now definitely dead (absent the possibility of a quantum miracle that spontaneously turns carbon dioxide into oxygen).

They might have killed the poorer members of the crew, so the more important ones can live longer.

 

[TurkeysGhost]

They might have killed the poorer members of the crew, so the more important ones can live longer.

They'd have to have done this pretty early on to have any meaningful impact on their air supply.

 

[Darat]

I heard this gentleman interviewed on Radio 4 a couple of days ago

https://twitter.com/DrMGuillen/stat...-in-titanics-propeller-100242733?id=100224153

It really brings home how dangerous such dives are and how such dives are still on the cusp of our technological ability.

 

[Dr.Sid]

They'd have to have done this pretty early on to have any meaningful impact on their air supply.

Rich people plan ahead.

 

[pgwenthold]

Does anyone know the details of NASA's collaboration with OceanGate?

Examples:

1. Did NASA build the carbon fiber pressure vessel(s) for OceanGate with–or without–knowledge of the final design of the Titan submersible?

So I will stop right here and not even bother with the rest.

NASA doesn't "build" anything. They hire contractors to build things.

NASA didn't build a Saturn V rocket. NASA didn't build the LM. NASA didn't build the space shuttle.

They pay companies to do that stuff.

So asking a question "Did NASA build the carbon fiber pressure vessel....." is a sign someone doesn't actually know much about how things work. Therefore, I can assume the rest of the questions are just as ignorant.

 

[Olmstead]

They might have killed the poorer members of the crew, so the more important ones can live longer.

It's a fun schlocky horror idea, but I feel like there'd be some issues with that course of action. For one thing, you are now stuck with a putrefying corpse that has just voided itself in a space the size of a car. Also, no one has provided any real information on how much water was on board, and four days is already getting close to fatal dehydration levels.

 

[lobosrul5]

It's a fun schlocky horror idea, but I feel like there'd be some issues with that course of action. For one thing, you are now stuck with a putrefying corpse that has just voided itself in a space the size of a car. Also, no one has provided any real information on how much water was on board, and four days is already getting close to fatal dehydration levels.

Heating is also an issue. Its about .5 Celsius down there I believe.

 

[TurkeysGhost]

So I will stop right here and not even bother with the rest.

NASA doesn't "build" anything. They hire contractors to build things.

NASA didn't build a Saturn V rocket. NASA didn't build the LM. NASA didn't build the space shuttle.

They pay companies to do that stuff.

So asking a question "Did NASA build the carbon fiber pressure vessel....." is a sign someone doesn't actually know much about how things work. Therefore, I can assume the rest of the questions are just as ignorant.

Kinda seems like you're splitting hairs. If NASA contracts out to build a one-off, bespoke piece of equipment to meet their specifications, then they're heavily involved in the manufacturing process and colloquially it's fine to say they built it. It's not like they went to Target and bought something off the shelf.

 

[pgwenthold]

Just look at the deaths on Mt Everest.

https://www.businessinsider.com/dead-bodies-on-mount-everest-are-hard-to-get-down-2019-5?r=US&IR=T

Last time I looked it up (it's been about 10 years), 5% of the people who tried to climb Everest died.

Curiously, half of them died on the way up, and half of them died on the way down after summitting.

In climbing Everest, getting to the top is, literally, half the battle.

 

[JoeMorgue]

To be 100% fair I legit DO feel sympathy for the teenage boy who went down. I mean if I was 17 and someone told me I had a chance to go see the Titanic I wouldn't have said no.

 

[pgwenthold]

Kinda seems like you're splitting hairs. If NASA contracts out to build a one-off, bespoke piece of equipment to meet their specifications, then they're heavily involved in the manufacturing process and colloquially it's fine to say they built it. It's not like they went to Target and bought something off the shelf.

I don't think so.

Why would NASA contract out to build a piece of equipment for a different private company?

The implication of this JAQoff is that there is some sort of conspiracy involving NASA and the implication that NASA is complicit. It's all nonsense.

In fact, you will see the CEO quoted in this thread that they consulted NASA on aspects, and that makes sense because NASA has some of the best engineers around. But they didn't ask NASA to build it for them. NASA would tell them to go directly to the contractor.