Titanic tourist sub goes missing sparking search

[tursiops]

Probably not, but, does anyone know if there is a way to pump air into it at depth, if found. Thereby extending retrieval time if anyone is still alive? Just curious.

No

 

[tmrqs]

They didn’t hit an iceberg like the last ship did…

Unless it did.
Plot twist.

 

[Boarderguy]

Unless it did.
Plot twist.

I think the plot twist is when they find that the banging sounds every 30 minutes or so is a really from a shipboard mechanic working on something.

 

[Dan]

WIthout power they are all frozen by this time, no?

One of the news says the water temperature is around 2C (36F) down there.

 

[Wibble]

Wonder if it landed inside the wreck? That would be a bad day!

 

[wetb4igetinthewater]

I heard the ballast releases automatically after a predetermined time (dissolving bolts?) Whether they can release the ballast manually I don't know.

That's what a friend of mine who used to work at Oceangate told me.

 

[Bigbella]

Stockton Rush, the CEO of OceanGate Expeditions who is currently entombed with four others aboard that cigar tube off Newfoundland, once said, during an interview with Teledyne Marine, that he refused to hire any "fifty year old white guys" with military experience, since they weren't in his view, "inspirational" enough and insisted upon younger people (read, far cheaper), all of whom will soon be looking for new jobs, once this tragedy hits the courts; and he added that, most anyone could be trained to use the Playstation® controller to pilot the Titan, at 4000 meters; or just some 386 atmospheres between friends.

Ironically enough, Rush, one of the whitest of that most tiresome cadre of wealthy San Franciscan, virtue-signaling, self-abasing white guys, at sixty-one, blithely fired those who questioned his vessel's integrity and its wholesale lack of emergency equipment; and who is now wholly dependent upon branches of the US military, whom he ridiculed for its "obsessional" safety, and the expertise of aging international rescuers and oceanographic specialists, many of whom I recently saw interviewed; a couple of whom I even knew offhand from years ago, who happen to be, variously, military, white, and / or over fifty, whom he would never consider hiring.

True to form, Rush also happens to be piloting the Titan and banging on its walls, perhaps even with his head by now -- and is certainly not, according to his very own definition, "inspirational" at all . . .

 

[Dody]

Stockton Rush, the CEO of OceanGate Expeditions, currently entombed aboard that cigar tube of death off Newfoundland, once said, during an interview with Teledyne Marine, that he refused to hire any "fifty year old white guys" with military experience, since he found them not to be "inspirational," and that almost anyone could be trained to use the Titan's Playstation controller, at four thousand meters.

Ironically enough, he could be somewhat correct in that vile assessment, since Rush, one of the whitest of self-loathing white guys at sixty-one, presumably piloting the submersible and banging, perhaps even with his head on its walls, is not, in the least bit, inspirational . . .

That one is nasty.

 

[lowwall]

Stockton Rush, the CEO of OceanGate Expeditions and currently entombed aboard that cigar tube of death off Newfoundland, once said, during an interview with Teledyne Marine, that he refused to hire any "fifty year old white guys" with military experience, since he found them not to be "inspirational,"

That's odd coming from a direct descendant of one of the more inspirational white guys with military experience in US history.

Benjamin Rush - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Dan]

This one is a carbon fibre sub not made of metal… I don’t know if fatigue testing of carbon fibre is required and whether it’s strength and lack of deterioration were overestimated…

I can see the confusion about this submersible, as OceanGate Home do have several kinds of submersibles and the news sometimes use Cyclops Submersible: 500 Meter Manned Submersible when they are discussing about Titan Submersible that is rated up to 4000m.

Cyclops, since it's rated only up to 500m has big viewport in front and top hatch.

Titan, since it's rated up to 4000m has tiny viewport (for the high pressure rating) in front that is also used as hatch bolted to a titanium dome that is glued to composite cylinder.

What are the maximum allowable working pressure (MAWP) rating of the viewport and the composite cylinder and the life cycles of the parts going through pressure and temperature swings (expansions and contractions), when descending to 4000m depth (400 bars) and ascending to the surface? Typical MAWP is about 1.5 x of the operating pressure or 6000m depth (600 bars). Did they test the parts to 600 bars?