It's found in five pieces near the Titanic on flat surface away from Titanic. (So they ask if it crashed into it?) Imploded Coast Guard Admiral says. Was it blown up? Why did it implode?
They say this sub was not registered by agency to be safe. So privately they can use it, charge $225,000.00 a ride? No one checks it out spending that much money?
I'd like to hear from James Cameron at this time. He has taken 33 trips, with others down to view the Titanic.
WTF happened?
I wont believe any of these "elites" died unless there are body parts found
kek, yeah probably
They were locked in by 17 bolts. They are now in witness protection.
Good thought!!
kek. What a show!
If that thing imploded at crush depth, there would be no body parts to find.
Convenient, no?
Exactly You'd think the dead body parts would be of more concern if it was even legit at all
So far Ive seen 3 articles and a video saying the wreckage has been found, but none of them have any pictures or site proof.
No one seems to have any video of these people getting into the sub for their once-in-a-lifetime trip, either.
The Coast guard admiral said they are going to have a tedious time with this accident and it involving several countries citizens.
At that depth, it amounted to a large bomb exploding, but in reverse as an implosion. If the depth was 3000 ft. or more, that actually amounts to more than 100 ATM = 1.47 ksi = 10.13 MPa = 101.33 Bars = 1469.65 lbs-force/in^2
It's absolutely astonishing this happened. There was no backup safety plan. And not even a safety tether from the support vessel above! To me this would have been the easiest back up in case something happened. With that safety tether, an optical communication line could have been rigged.
I suspect the failure occurred along any of the 17 bolts of the hatch. The repeated use for deep diving would have a cycling effect between extreme pressure (compression) differentials on structural material. Any removable part is the likely place for such catastrophic failure to occur.
My understanding is this submarine was used previously on 25 occasions. Also, I understand a thick-walled acrylic (7" thick) was used for the port window. Was the yield strength of acrylic the best material to use? It's obvious to me just by the lack of any back-up safety plans that other 'short-cuts' were made. The repeated compression/decompression around the bolt holes may have caused material fatigue and micro-cracking that was not properly examined and caught. This seems to be the most likely spot for failure to occur. These deep dive voyages was a suicide waiting to happen. The visibility at that level is most likely very poor. So the purpose of seeing a ship wreck like the Titanic was akin to a myopic man seeing the tail of an elephant, but not the entire massive beast. For $225,000, along with the possibility of not even finding the Titanic, and poor visibility, I can't understand the insane motive. It's clear the passengers were convinced to believe it was all an adventure it was not.
The implosion is not surprising at all. That's what happens to subs when the external pressure is so great that it can't withstand it. And it doesn't happen slowly, either, but quite suddenly. One second you're taking pics or talking to someone and the next second you're dead, it happens that fast.
I once saw a video of a rail car that had negative pressure in it, and it suddenly crunched into itself in about half a second. Might still find it on YouTube.
EDIT: Found it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zz95_VvTxZM
Cool video thanks ! Saved
They faked their death because you’re in deep trouble. The only reason it took a couple days to try and find it, it’s because they paid somebody for it to take a couple days. I’m sure they had an escape plan. The whole story it was just Loopy!
How were they cleared to take passengers down? This all sounds like malarkey to me. Surprise, surprise. Bodies most likely not recoverable d/t implosion. Check Antarctica or S. America as an escape route or maybe Terra Mar tunnels. And wife the owner lost grand parents in the Titanic! What are the chances?
Why did the MSM report that banging was heard every 30 minutes?
Why to keep the news going of course. A countdown is dramatic and provided cover for shifty shift and durham reveals
Almost like they were pinging huh.
They did also say the banging can be other oceanic noise. However if it just imploded it must have been the loss of communication that triggered all of this from the beginning.
I once knew a guy who had been a sonar operator on a US sub back in the Cold War. He told me that the ocean is a VERY NOISY place, and that he had to be able to pick out enemy sub noises from whale sounds, temperature inversions, and a host of other noises that sonar picked up.
The novel Hunt for Red October talks a lot about this with the character of Jonesey. Very interesting and can explain what anyone here might like to know.
You might also want to read "Blind Man's Bluff"... a true story about Cold War era US subs that were so good and so stealthy that they were able to go right into the Soviet's most sensitive submarine bases and eavesdrop on their conversations. It's a fascinating story, part spy story, part military intelligence, but all good.
“The Silent War” by John Craven is also a good read.
I'll check it out.
Did they bang on the sides and cause the implosion?
What happened?
Ocam's Razor version: OceanGate took on a project they will ill-equipped to handle, cut corners on safety, and paid the price for it.
US Navy big nuke subs can only go down to about 2000' or so, not even a half mile. Titanic sits at 2 miles under water. There are subs that can go that deep, even deeper, but they are highly engineered, tested, and inspected before making such a dive. OceanGate engineers were a bunch of "inspirational" diversity hires vs "a bunch of 50 y.o. old white guys" with actual experience running subs per CEO Stockton Rush.
Titan's hull was carbon fiber. Most deep sea subs have like 5" thick steel walls and are bathysphere shaped to handle the immense pressure. I'm sure deep sea subs are gone over with a very fine safety inspection between dives as even a small crack could be catastrophic at that depth. Those subs are engineered to handle twice the pressure needed, have multiple redundancies and backups and are run by the best crews available, even if it means (gasp!) hiring 50 yo white guys who ran subs in the Navy.
Just a guess, but OceanGate probably ran tests with their sub in shallower waters, had stress cracks in the carbon fiber, and then ran Titan with passengers. Or maybe they just didn't design it right in the first place and it got crushed like a beer can under the immense pressure.
Submarine went down. Submarine had a problem. Submarine dropped the weights, that meant it was heading upwards. Suddenly submarine was gone. It was made of carbon-fibre. A microfracture in that material can result in a structural failure. Submarine was crushed on its way up. The end. As soon as it stopped going upwards, there was no hope. The lies about them being alive was just for your entertainment.
James Cameron...has taken [33] trips...to view the Titanic
https://insiderpaper.com/titanic-sub-firm-fired-exec-who-raised-safety-concerns-suit/
No one knows what happened. We are so used to not believing the narrative. I'm all for question everything. But sometimes there is no mystery. Sometimes you take an experimental sub to deep and it implodes. Hopefully, time will tell and we will know what happened. Right now, it's too soon to tell.
Here's an article I just found on this -
https://justthenews.com/events/coast-guard-confirms-titanic-sub-marine-passenger-crew-dead
Though it doesn't say the bodies were found, just debris from the submarine.