Titanic tourist sub goes missing sparking search

[Pearlman]

I've seen a lot of movies where they just tap on the side with a wrench or something. Would any topside or even water borne search vessels be able to hear that?

Personally, I'd be banging like the drum solo for Innagoddadevita.

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…

 

[BoundForElsewhere]

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…

It would still thunk and send out vibrations, no?

Miracles can happen. I pray we have one up north. If they can find 4 kids in the jungle.... just maybe.

 

[-JD-]

I've seen a lot of movies where they just tap on the side with a wrench or something. Would any topside or even water borne search vessels be able to hear that?

Personally, I'd be banging like the drum solo for Innagoddadevita.

[ETA: Assuming they aren't already surfaced and unlocated ...] It is over two miles below the surface, the sound falls off proportionally to the square of the distance, and the ocean is a pretty noisy place. If they dropped deep subsurface hydrophones, maybe ...

 

[BoundForElsewhere]

Tragic irony, this.

 

[Boarderguy]

OceanGate, company behind missing Titanic tourist sub, once subject of lawsuit over safety complaints

OceanGate once faced a lawsuit from a former employee who alleged they were fired for raising safety concerns about the vessel that went missing while descending to the Titanic.

www.foxbusiness.com

"The documents say Lochridge learned the viewport manufacturer "would only certify to a depth of 1,300 meters due to the experimental design of the viewport supplied by OceanGate, which was out of the Pressure Vessels for Human Occupancy standards.

"OceanGate refused to pay for the manufacturer to build a viewport that would meet the required depth of 4,000 meters," the complaint states."

Nowhere in the article did it say that they corrected the issue or used a new viewport

 

[JustSurfaceInterval]

[...] Hopefully our US Navy will get involved quickly.

Why?

 

[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…

The sub has metal parts, titanium dome that join the composite tube to the viewing port.

 

[Wookie]

I've seen a lot of movies where they just tap on the side with a wrench or something. Would any topside or even water borne search vessels be able to hear that?

Personally, I'd be banging like the drum solo for Innagoddadevita.

NPR says the Canadian Coast Guard is dropping sonobuoys.

I worked on sonobuoys for the navy.

You can hear shrimp doing the nasty in 25,000 feet of water.

You would hear a wrench against the hull.

 

[Norwegian Cave Diver]

Wonder if the support ship had the capability to listen for sound underwater during the decent, and did they hear anything that would be cause for concern?

 

[Wookie]

Wonder if the support ship had the capability to listen for sound underwater during the decent, and did they hear anything that would be cause for concern?

Depends on what conspiracy theories you listen to.

My vote is no.