I wouldn’t do this but it’s pretty interesting to hear they have 4 days left of oxygen left. They dived Sunday morning which means they have 2 days left now.
View: https://youtu.be/qDkYKV-CNxE
View: https://youtu.be/qDkYKV-CNxE
It certainly looks grim and is an interesting story to see where it goes.
If they lost controls and are simply drifting, but maintained pressure... I wonder how far they would drift in ocean currents? Is that even a possible scenario, to drift losing controls like that?
Could they be tangled in wreckage?
If they depressurized and imploded, the wreckage should be on the bottom near the Titanic?
That seems most likely.I'm thinking it imploded due to design flaw. It is/was an experimentally built vehicle that had no certifications of any kind.
. . . the viewport at the forward of the submersible was only built to a certified pressure of 1,300 meters, although OceanGate intended to take passengers down to depths of 4,000 meters. Lochridge learned that the viewport manufacturer would only certify to a depth of 1,300 meters due to experimental design of the viewport supplied by OceanGate, which was out of the Pressure Vessels for Human Occupancy (“PVHO”) standards. OceanGate refused to pay for the manufacturer to build a viewport that would meet the required depth of 4,000 meters.
Lochridge was particularly concerned about “non-destructive testing performed on the hull of the Titan” but he was “repeatedly told that no scan of the hull or Bond Line could be done to check for delaminations, porosity and voids of sufficient adhesion of the glue being used due to the thickness of the hull.” He was also told there was no such equipment that could conduct a test like that.
I hate to say it... but this means those people are not going to be saved and are hopefully already dead.
If they have to sit in that tiny tube with their teeth chattering from the icy cold while they wait for the oxygen to run out... what a fucking nightmare of a death.
At least if the sub was crushed from the pressure they would have died in 1 second or less.
I'll never be able to hear the song "Yellow Submarine" without this crossing my mind. Just horrible if they are found dead.
They are running out of time.
They shouldn't have even done the dive.
I read that this was going to be the only dive this year, due to weather.
This one was almost canceled as well, but a break in the weather led them to believe it was a good idea to go ahead.
Looks like the Titanic, may not be done taking lives.
This is horrible.
It certainly looks grim and is an interesting story to see where it goes.
If they lost controls and are simply drifting, but maintained pressure... I wonder how far they would drift in ocean currents? Is that even a possible scenario, to drift losing controls like that?
Could they be tangled in wreckage?
If they depressurized and imploded, the wreckage should be on the bottom near the Titanic?