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re: Titanic tourist submarine goes missing
Posted on 6/29/23 at 10:47 am to Dick Jacket
Posted on 6/29/23 at 10:47 am to Dick Jacket
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I don’t think it did either. Based on the spotty reporting about them having some issue of too rapid of a descent and an inability to control that through ballast, one reasonable hypothesis (to this layman) is that they made it to the bottom faster than expected, hit bottom too hard, and that force instantaneously compromised the structural integrity of the capsule and caused the catastrophic implosion.
Unsubstantiated info that my hypothesis was correct.
This post was edited on 6/29/23 at 10:49 am
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Posted on 6/29/23 at 2:09 pm to Dick Jacket
It would be strange to have multiple failures that led to no control over decent.
It supposedly had:
The "roll off" ballast
An inflatable bladder ballast with a 10000psi air tank.
A hydraulic release ballast
The ability to jettison the landing skid
The thrusters
Hard to come up with a scenario as to how all of those could fail to overcome a negative ballast problem, but with what we know of the engineering who knows if the "systems" even worked.
It supposedly had:
The "roll off" ballast
An inflatable bladder ballast with a 10000psi air tank.
A hydraulic release ballast
The ability to jettison the landing skid
The thrusters
Hard to come up with a scenario as to how all of those could fail to overcome a negative ballast problem, but with what we know of the engineering who knows if the "systems" even worked.
Posted on 6/29/23 at 2:50 pm to Dick Jacket
Cameron said he learned Monday morning it failed on descent at 3500 meters
Surface lost comms and tracking at the same time
The Transponder was separate and self contained from the sub, when the transponder went silent the surface knew the sub was lost
Cameron said the rescue talk was a farce, surface support and gov officials knew what happened immediately
They even knew exactly where it was
Surface lost comms and tracking at the same time
The Transponder was separate and self contained from the sub, when the transponder went silent the surface knew the sub was lost
Cameron said the rescue talk was a farce, surface support and gov officials knew what happened immediately
They even knew exactly where it was
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