Titanic Tourist Submarine Goes Missing

[chrismpw]

Apparently the bolts shutting the door are bolted down from the outside, 17 of them. No release mechanism from inside…..

Fair enough. There's simply no point trying to get out at depth.

Bobbing around on the surface, running out of air however. ..

 

[chrismpw]

It uses Starlink for comms, so unless that's down then it doesn't look good...

Does srarlink use microwave frequencies? If so there's no chance it can penetrate water.

 

[peteblue]

Just trying to think of what. Its either broken, or trapped in sommet. Must be terrifying mind.

Hard to get your head around it really……

 

[Lapeno77]

BBC say a Canadian pipe laying ship is there, with remote sub type things. But even if they find it, presumably on the sea bed, how on earth could they retrieve it?

Would imagine the RN DSRV would be used.
Supposed to be capable of getting anywhere in the world within 72 hours.
That is provided the docking hatch is compatible.

 

[roydo]

Would imagine the RN DSRV would be used.
Supposed to be capable of getting anywhere in the world within 72 hours.
That is provided the docking hatch is compatible.

Royal Navy Deep Sea Recovery Vessel?

 

[Prevenger17]

Couldn't imagine what that experience is like, I do hope they get out of this safely. Nightmarish stuff

 

[The binman chronicles]

Would imagine the RN DSRV would be used.
Supposed to be capable of getting anywhere in the world within 72 hours.
That is provided the docking hatch is compatible.

They don't go down deep enough. They'll either be on the surface or they'll be on the ocean floor anyhow.

I presume the sub can blow the ballast tanks in an emergency, so it has done that or it can't because the sub is crippled or already crushed.

 

[heatmeiser]

Does srarlink use microwave frequencies? If so there's no chance it can penetrate water.

It does regularly I think, but they collaborated with T-mobile for some underwater shenanigans apparently.

Can't say whether it would work 2 miles down mind!

 

[Lapeno77]

Yeah, or submergence.

The other problem is the depth. Think the current deepest recorded rescue is 1600 feet.

Titanic lies at 12500 feet

 

[roydo]

They don't go down deep enough. They'll either be on the surface or they'll be on the ocean floor anyhow.

I presume the sub can blow the ballast tanks in an emergency, so it has done that or it can't because the sub is crippled or already crushed.

That is what some sub expert said on the radio earlier. His suggestion was that if they havnt, they cant, if they have, search the surface.

 

[Digger09]

Would imagine the RN DSRV would be used.
Supposed to be capable of getting anywhere in the world within 72 hours.
That is provided the docking hatch is compatible.

That’s not designed to go that deep.

 

[DavidH]

Apparently it needs some kind of claw to latch onto it, as the conventional way, is latching onto the conning tower, which it hasn’t got.

A bit like the fairground things, where the arm grabs a toy.

Oh great so now they're gonna keep getting dropped when half way to safety. Might as well fire a torpedo into them

 

[Sweeneytoad]

At those depths, unless the submarine can save itself and rise to the surface there's nothing else that can be done I'd imagine.

US raised a Soviet sub in 1974 under a secret operation, but took years of planning. For anyone interested. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Azorian

 

[Digger09]

They don't go down deep enough. They'll either be on the surface or they'll be on the ocean floor anyhow.

I presume the sub can blow the ballast tanks in an emergency, so it has done that or it can't because the sub is crippled or already crushed.

Beyond a certain depth that won’t work. For every ten meters the increase in pressure is one bar. The further you go down the more the pressure deflates the air and as you go up the opposite. So you will need the propulsions system to work at deep depths, and if that has failed and their is no back up system then they are screwed.

 

[DavidH]

Mark Wahlberg and his agent will be sat in his drinking bottles of miller watching CNN as we speak