Submarine tour of the Titanic goes missing

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    Did you all notice how the electrical cables going back to the propulsion units were routed inside fluid-filled clear vinyl tubing? Those cables would see the same pressure whether or not they were inside that clear tubing so I wonder why they did that? Despite the possibility OceanGate Titan may have failed catastrophically there is some interesting engineering on display throughout. I even saw a RAM Mount attached to the inner wall of the carbon fiber tube. I can’t believe they screwed into the carbon. Maybe there’s another liner inside that they used for attaching stuff like that and routing wires, etc. kind of like drywall over wall studs?
    Almost certainly. Even these dummies don't run screws into a pressure hull. Also I believe the hull is titanium with carbon fiber weave over it, not full thickness carbon fiber.

    I don't think real DSV builders would even chance welding brackets and stuff to the wall of the pressure sphere. They may build, basically, a floating cage inside to mount everything to. Wonder if they have to design in clearance for the hull to compress...
     

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    A guy interviewed yesterday said at 10 a.m. British time today they would have ran out of oxygen. RIP.
    I suspect one day it will be determined that the stresses on the hull caused it to implode while it was closing in on the bottom at the time it lost all contact an hour and 45 minutes after submerging and they’ve been gone since then, reports of banging notwithstanding.
     

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    A guy interviewed yesterday said at 10 a.m. British time today they would have ran out of oxygen. RIP.
    Yeah, the 96 hours is a number under good conditions. No way in hell it would last that long with 5 panicked passengers
    I suspect one day it will be determined that the stresses on the hull caused it to implode while it was closing in on the bottom at the time it lost all contact an hour and 45 minutes after submerging and they’ve been gone since then, reports of banging notwithstanding.
    that banging could be what’s left of the sub rattling around inside the titanic hull due to currents?
     

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    Those passengers should've just did like I have and watched YT videos of the Titanic at the bottom of the ocean. Now they are at the bottom of the ocean and I survived watching YT videos from the comfort of my recliner while eating some potato chips and all it cost me was an internet bill.
     
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    that banging could be what’s left of the sub rattling around inside the titanic hull due to currents?
    Possibly, but currents that deep probably aren’t moving real fast with a lot of energy available to move things around. Seems like if someone is alive and trying to communicate with the surface by banging on the hull, they’d really want to alert people they’re still alive rather than random bangs. Assuming no one knows how to bang out morse code, maybe try banging out the first ten prime numbers in sequence over and over. The latter couldn’t be a natural effect, but are sound sensors topside sensitive or precise enough to pick up and count bangs from 4000 meters deep?
     

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    I think it's time to just let the Titanic be. There has been plenty of research footage of the wreck. I don't believe that anything of value is left to be gained and it ended up as a tragic tourist attraction, something that it should never have been.
     

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    A remotely operated vehicle deployed from a Canadian vessel to the ocean floor discovered a "debris field" near the Titanic, the U.S. Coast Guard said on Thursday morning on Twitter, adding that experts were "evaluating the information."

     

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    A remotely operated vehicle deployed from a Canadian vessel to the ocean floor discovered a "debris field" near the Titanic, the U.S. Coast Guard said on Thursday morning on Twitter, adding that experts were "evaluating the information."

    Not "debris", a "debris field". Interesting. And very bad. Submersibles don't survive events that generate debris fields.

    It will be obvious as soon as they find one of the titanium domes and some thruster pods or something. Nothing else down there looks like brand new submersible parts.
     
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