That Submersible

[WendyZXZ]

Well in my 80 years on this planet I have done a lot of Stooopid things. I guess I was just luckier than those in the sub.
How about you?? If you have not done something dangerous in your life you have not lived.

I admit to being stupid and doing stupid things...I AM married! The joking part aside hopefully others will learn from a bad choice and mistake and think twice which no doubt after this they will. It is sad for the people that died and those that cared about them. Being human means you will "screw up", many times all your life, but hopefully you can come away a bit wiser and hopefully help another along if you see them about to do something where the voice in the head says to you, you may want to point out some of the problems. They may listen, they may not and nothing bad happen to them in the least, but at least you tried your best to help another based on your experiences...

 

[Ride1949]

 

[WV460hunter]

Well in my 80 years on this planet I have done a lot of Stooopid things. I guess I was just luckier than those in the sub.
How about you?? If you have not done something dangerous in your life you have not lived.

They did and they aren't.
I think Forrest Gump said it best .
Stupid is what stupid does. In the safety world the more stupid it is the danger qoutent rises.

 

[Jeepnik]

Honestly I wouldn’t call them stupid. Man has been down there many times without event. They simply trusted the wrong company. It’s no different that boarding a airplane that crashes. You expect a safe flight because you are flying with a crew on a plane that safely does their job.

A wise decision, only in retrospect. Had nothing untoward occurred you never would have heard about it. Just like thousands of flights daily.

My issue is that, like so many ship wrecks it is a grave site and should be respected and left alone.

 

[RC44Mag]

Agree with jeepnik. Most of the stories on the sub prior to the incident have been pretty positive and if anything is learned from this I hope people willing to do these extreme things will do plenty of their own research before diving in, pun intended. This guy should have never been trusted at depth.

 

[caryc]

Trusting my life to that thing that was operated with a video game controller is not exactly what I call smart. And, on top of that, he wanted to charge me $250,000? What did he do with all that profit? He certainly didn't believe in "sinking" any more money back into his toy.

I remember when safer subs came in cereal boxes.

 

[WV460hunter]

Trusting my life to that thing that was operated with a video game controller is not exactly what I call smart. And, on top of that, he wanted to charge me $250,000? What did he do with all that profit? He certainly didn't believe in "sinking" any more money back into his toy.

I remember when safer subs came in cereal boxes.

I think I could get a better sub at Subway .for $6.99

 

[caryc]

I thought that at first but it seems that he video game controller turns out not be an issue. Seems that those things are repurposed for all sorts of military and industrial applications. They're designed to take tons of abuse from gamers, they're inexpensive, and they already exist. Why reinvent the wheel?

Not with my life bud. You ask why not? Because the government steals enough money from me so they shouldn't have to use toys like that. They probably pay $1000 for them anyway. Remember the $400 hammers?

 

[freakindawgen]

This was never going to be on my bucket list. About the only thing I like about water is bathing in it. Never cared to swim unless the bottom was touchable. Never cared for boats, including when in the Navy. Never set foot on a Carrier.

 

[caryc]

This was never going to be on my bucket list. About the only thing I like about water is bathing in it. Never cared to swim unless the bottom was touchable. Never cared for boats, including when in the Navy. Never set foot on a Carrier.

It is kind of scary the first time one is out at sea. You can look around in any direction and there is no sign of human life anywhere. Not a good feeling at all.

 

[WV460hunter]

It is kind of scary the first time one is out at sea. You can look around in any direction and there is no sign of human life anywhere. Not a good feeling at all.

Yeah just never seemed like a reasonable activity.
Now lake fishing in a flat bottomed Jon boat yeah I can handle that. Figure if I fell out of the boat I could rest while floating and swim long enough to make it to a shoreline.

 

[caryc]

If you fall out of a flat bottomed Jon boat you've been drinking too much beer.

 

[Jeepnik]

I always like it when I can't see any signs of another human being. My happy place is a spot in the desert no one else seems to visit.

The only gutting wrong with the quiet places is my tinnitus seems really loud. But after a bit even that fades .

 

[blume357]

Seems to me that after every dive or at least every couple of dives they would put the submersible in a large pressure tank and pump that baby up to twice the pressure it is going down to. Then, at least in theory one would know it could with stand the pressure.

 

[Colonialgirl]

It is kind of scary the first time one is out at sea. You can look around in any direction and there is no sign of human life anywhere. Not a good feeling at all.

Then as a kid between 6th and 7th grade, there is standing out in the glassed in observation deck of a Navy transport and watching the waves TALLER than the windows flow by !! There had been a hurricane in the south Atlantic (?? I think).
I thought my mother was gonna have a heart attack, suffer a stroke and or collapse when she found me and my older brother out there !!

 

[Dave P.]

So far physics remains undefeated.
Not sure a pressure test after every few dives would tell much, plus you get the fatigue of extra stress cycles.
I'm guessing ultrasonic or x-ray type of testing would have been worthwhile.
I wonder what the max pressure it was designed for or what the failure pressure was supposed to be
before in went phunk!

 

[caryc]

Seems to me that after every dive or at least every couple of dives they would put the submersible in a large pressure tank and pump that baby up to twice the pressure it is going down to. Then, at least in theory one would know it could with stand the pressure.

Twice the pressure? Maybe, or just maybe that last test could weaken it somehow that would prove fatal on the next real dive.

 

[caryc]

Then as a kid between 6th and 7th grade, there is standing out in the glassed in observation deck of a Navy transport and watching the waves TALLER than the windows flow by !! There had been a hurricane in the south Atlantic (?? I think).
I thought my mother was gonna have a heart attack, suffer a stroke and or collapse when she found me and my older brother out there !!

Ever watch Deadliest Catch? Even one of the captains, I forget which one, while going through a bad storm said he was a little worried about the waves taking out the windows in his wheel house. Oh yeah, it was Sig Hansen since his was the only boat that had a forward wheel house on it. I still think that one is the prettiest boat. But you wouldn't catch me on it or any other crab boat in a million years.

 

[freakindawgen]

I can't find a better vid. We had films we watch on training days. And this storm was tame compared to the on the Navy presented. The bow of the A/C Carrier would go down into a wave and the sky dissapeared, water washed over the flight deck. Then the bow would come up and nothing but sky. Carrier's are huge and it was being tossed like a row boat. That moment is when I was positive I could not get duty on a Navy Boat!

 

[RC44Mag]

On a carrier it’s bad but try it riding one out in a tin can. My frigate chased Soviet subs around the N Atlantic. If the ruskies could find real bad weather they’d head for it to try a lose us. We often hit crap on our own also. In the N Atlantic it wasn’t to difficult to find real lumpy seas but on occasion they would lead us to this holy hell washing machine crap, 45‘ seas. One time we were in it for almost two weeks, it was near impossible to get some sleep. Sailors walking on bulkheads, falling out of racks, getting tossed across compartments you name it. more then a few broken bones, stitches, radar array ripped off, antennas and some 25 man life raft pods gone. It was a hell of a time.

 

[Colonialgirl]

I read somewhere that the Fiber Glass shell was SUPPOSE to be 7 inches thick but arrived at 5 inches and it was used anyway.

 

[outlaw_dogboy]

I read somewhere that the Fiber Glass shell was SUPPOSE to be 7 inches thick but arrived at 5 inches and it was used anyway.

I read the same. But I thought it said carbon fiber.

 

[Wyandot Jim]

I read somewhere that the Fiber Glass shell was SUPPOSE to be 7 inches thick but arrived at 5 inches and it was used anyway.

The cylinder/hull was made out of Carbon Fiber same as the Boeing 787 Dreamliner is made from. Not as much is known about life cycles of carbon fiber as steel or aluminum. I guess two cycles was the max

 

[Pal Val]

There was a time when billionaires who got sick of all that money would use it to build a museum, art gallery, theater, library, or even a university. Now, they throw money into cheap thrills, even if it kills them.

Let these ones rest in pieces at the bottom of the sea. They paid good money for it.

 

[Jeepnik]

And folks wonder why I enlisted in the USAF. Mostly good quarters and hot meals. The ground only moved if we had an earthquake.

 

[hittman]

https://www.foxnews.com/us/titanic-...sumed-human-remains-recovered-deadly-wreckage

 

[dannyd]

From the Heat generated in an implosion those remains must look like Jello.

 

[sfhogman]

From the Heat generated in an implosion those remains must look like Jello.

Baked jello.

 

[wolfsong]

Baked jello.

 

[daveag.]

Leave Titanic alone. Watch the movie with popcorn and a cold Pepsi. How many more people going to die? 2 miles deep in ocean is enough to discourage me.