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Tourist(s) missing in submarine while trying to reach the Titannic
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Tourist(s) missing in submarine while trying to reach the Titannic
If losing contact with your submarine for extended periods of time is part of the standard operating procedure, you might need to make some adjustments.
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06-22-2023, 11:20 AM | #648 | |
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Clock should start the second there is a missed check-in. It is the responsibility of the captain to abort and resurface if they cannot communicate with the surface. They were 2 hours into a dive meaning they should have called into the Coast Guard no more than 3 hours after the missed check-in. Hindsight being what it is... it wouldn't have made a bit of difference though if the sub did indeed get crushed like a can of beer on some frat pledge's forehead. |
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This event is a lesson to not have humans go down that far. We should definitely be able to have underwater drones/pods map that out and search the vast landscape of the oceans floor. Hope they do that while I’m alive. There’s so much we can learn.
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06-22-2023, 11:22 AM | #650 |
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06-22-2023, 11:22 AM | #651 | |
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06-22-2023, 11:22 AM | #652 | |
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And again - I don't disagree completely. There's a smart and calculated way to do these sorts of things as safely as possible. My point is that it isn't ALWAYS the way this shit gets done. Sometimes a crazy guy just says "YOLO - SEND IT!" and it works. More often they die. But I can respect the spirit of those guys either way. This isn't anything new - humanity has been killing itself testing boundaries since time immemorial. Only now do some folks seem to get off on it when it happens.
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The Titan was never deemed safe at all for any depth. Yep. |
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06-22-2023, 11:25 AM | #655 | |
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06-22-2023, 11:28 AM | #656 |
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I wonder if for any of them their last words were "I love the Kansas city Chiefs"
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06-22-2023, 11:29 AM | #657 |
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06-22-2023, 11:32 AM | #658 |
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I don't recall where I saw the replica - I'm wanting to say it was in Bermuda. But my jaw just dropped. It was in the middle of a pavilion area and it was just some tiny shitty wooden ship. My first thought was 'scale model' then I looked it up and confirmed that the think was like 56 feet long.
Explorers are crazy. Magellan went around the world on a ship that was MAYBE 70 ft long and records are that it could've been nearer to the 55-60 ft of the Nina/Pinta. Again - the world's always had guys who are willing to risk it all. When it works they're celebrated. I don't really think they should be mocked when it doesn't.
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