Not sure I was aware of it until I played Subnautica. That'll teach you all about crush depth.Originally Posted by niko_cee
Not sure I was aware of it until I played Subnautica. That'll teach you all about crush depth.
The submersible accident reminds me of this:
https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoo...-ten-climbers/
Rich people just thinking being rich makes you bulletproof.
Nobody getting in that thing deserves to come out of it alive.
The helicopter of the seas.
Everything I read about this sub is just mental.
There was a previous passenger (Is that the right word?) On the radio this morning and he said that it took them 2 hours to find the Titanic down there, so they only had about 20 minutes looking at it before they had to surface.
If it's taking 2 hours to find the fucking Titanic, they are NEVER finding this thing (assuming it is down there).
Worth bearing in mind that it takes that piece of shit two hours to find the Titanic, one would hope the US Navy have better odds even if they’re still slim.
No idea why but I’m going for a dramatic rescue.
I can't wrap my head around what a rescue would look like. Are they going to try and pull the vessel back to the surface? You can't really do that in a hurry.
Do you still have to worry about the bends if you're in a pressurised container?
And even if you do, probably better to worry about that than flirt with not having any air to breathe for a prolonged period.
Fuck it, I'm claiming, like everything these days, that it's being filmed and they'll be rescued and released on Netflix by the end of the summer.
Even if they find it, which I don't think they ever will, a tool for dragging it up to the surface likely doesn't exist. Even if it does, getting it to the right place and getting it done would surely take longer than the air they have left even now.
Even allowing for the knock off PS2 controller surely that thing is equipped with some emergency protocols should the shit hit the fan?
It can dump the ballast and float to the surface, but:
1) that assumes it's not broken.
2) it has no method of really controlling the ascent so would likely be fatal from that depth
3) they would just be a tiny object bobbing about on the surface.
The next dive can go and visit the coffin on the seabed if they can’t find the titanic.
What a tragic idea to head down into one of those. Just watch the film and have a wank over rose’s tits like the rest of us.
What we really need is that riverbank (but only in a specific area and absolutely nothing more) guy and his sonar team.
Everything about this story.
You need that geezer who bowled in and found Emiliano Sala's plane/corpse in about 20 minutes.
Apparently there's some deep sea salvage equipment over here [or based here and currently in Jersey or something] which might have been useful but the yanks want to use their own shitter stuff [also no idea how they would plan to get something from here to there in the time frame].
How many hours have these (dead) chaps been missing for now?
Do we even know they’re missing? Or could they just be cutting about with no comms and then pop back to the surface oblivious to all this?
BBC saying they’ve got 40 hours of oxygen left. Like most other sane people, not a fucking chance I’d ever set foot in the converted drain pipe being controlled by a ps3 pad.
Quite the shit reflection on human tech that they can't locate something like this.
We’ve just never bothered to build anything that could find it I’d imagine, as what’s the point? We know there’s fuck all down there bar some ugly fish, a doomed boat and now some dead billionaires.
Water is excellent at blocking radiation, you don't just science around that. Nothing that goes under that much water communicates without some huge antenna or towed array, ie something that is not under anywhere near as much water.
Some banging has been heard at 30 minute intervals.
I still have no idea, even if found, how they extract it from so deep.
Last edited by John Arne; 21-06-2023 at 06:37 AM.
Even if on the surface, they can't open the capsule from inside and so would still suffocate all the same.
This shit gives me an outrageous justice boner. Keep banging, Stockton.But less than a year later he warned his bosses that flaws in the Titan's carbon hull might go undetected without more stringent testing, and urged the company to have an outside agency certify the vessel.
He said his verbal warnings were ignored until he wrote a report and was called into a meeting with several officials - including OceanGate chief executive Stockton Rush, who is aboard the missing submersible.
OceanGate responded by firing Lochridge.
I'm guessing the lawyers are out
https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttoo...b3764/full.pdf
On the lawyer front I'd be more interested in this 'waiver' that mentions death all the time that they get everyone to sign. If they've put as much effort and professionalism into that as seems to be reflected across the rest of their organisation then I hope they have good insurance, which they obviously won't.
I don't know how you could insure anything that amateur hour. They must have "submarine Insurance" or whatever, but the bod assessing the claim is just going to lol in the face of the piece of shit. PlayStation controller? Recycled construction waste? Previous concerns raised and the staff member sacked for it? Good luck fellas.
Can’t wait for the Nat Geo Seconds from Disaster episode on this. Should be a corker.
Time to deploy Kiefer Sutherland.
I know it's a stupid question but is there any reason they don't attach these things to a 20 mile long rope of sorts, so they can be pulled back up if necessary? Make it fibre-optic in some way and you could use it as a comms link as well.
Their current main rescue plan is to use exactly that. It's based in California and they're trying to get it to Canada, they then need a massive ship to put it on because the fucking thing is ginormous (which is why I suspect they don't all come pre-connected to one).
Don't want to be that guy, but why is this sub such a massive story? Boats sink all the time, it doesn't dominate world news for days.
As opposed to Chilean coal miners or Thai children in a cave? Or a drunk woman drowning in a shallow river?
My wife came home from work "have you heard about that submarine?"
Love, we've been discussing it on The Dugout since Monday.
I'm a twit
Evil billionaires in an insane experimental submarine missing near the Titanic. It's News gold.
Hard to imagine this NOT being a huge story. Plenty of lols to be had.
The huge rescue effort is weirder than the coverage, why so much trouble for five idiots in the Sinkatron 5000?
It's unusual and it's the Titanic. NEWS.
5 insanely rich and well connected idiots.
Everyone loves a good mystery. It's why the "but wot about all those migrants on the boat in Greece!" people are missing the point. The lost sub is unusual and intriguing. It's also a sort of 'unimaginably bad' situation that people [weirdly] probably find more relatable than the dead migrants.
It’s a Netflix documentary I’m telling you.
Unlike that woman who fell in the river.
Some things just hit the sweet spot for news. Attractive woman goes missing in mysterious circumstances. Billionaires go missing, presumed dead, ultimate mixture of horror at the situation and comedy at the sub itself and none of us plebs would get in it on a canal never mind deep sea dive in it.
I know but the sub is clearly history. If it isn't then I hold my hands up and the BBC news website have their priorities spot on.
I believe the BBC get sweet sweet ad revenue from those outside Charlie's remit.
The BBC haven't had their priorities in order for decades. Neither do the competition. We live in a world of European war, financial suicide and climate crisis. Anything outside of that is asinine bollocks in reality, but we live in the age of asinine bollocks, and this is alot less asinine than most of the shite we concentrate on these days.
Last edited by Spikey M; 21-06-2023 at 10:55 PM.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-65981876
You say something, Spikey?
I hope that gets a John Carmack run-in.
The sub story is the perfect mix of the macabre, remaining hope (albeit fuck all realistically) and adventure. It absolutely makes sense that it’s been so high profile.
It also offers a nice distraction from the Bank of England seemingly being determined to absolutely ruin the lives of everyone earning between £30k and, let’s say, £100k per annum.
Netflix are going to need to get a wriggle on here.
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